Documents in our library describe Economy 250 (National Gypsum) as “national gypsum's gold bond economy 250 panels (corrugated asbestos cement panels)”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Economy 250 (National Gypsum) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1955, September 1955
- Description: “National Gypsum's Gold Bond Economy 250 panels (corrugated asbestos cement panels)”, said by National Gypsum Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 221
- Use: “can be installed on regular wood framing and fastened directly with nails because of their light weight and strength”, said by National Gypsum Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 221
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos cement” (as of 1961), p. 742
Kind of product
We list Economy 250 (National Gypsum) with insulating cement and coatings and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by National Gypsum (3)
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (321)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Detrick T-060 (Combustion Engineering) · Detrick Thinsuliner (Combustion Engineering) · Dri-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Dura-dri (U.S. Gypsum) · Duriseal (Combustion Engineering) · Durocel (Keene/Ehret) · Easy Seal (Combustion Engineering) · Elastigum Roof (Celotex) · Emulsified Asphalt (Coopers Creek) · Emulsion 330, Emulsion 331 (Insul-Coustic) · Enduro (Keene) · FC II (Bigelow-Liptak) · Fenco (Owens-Corning) · FI (Fibreboard) · Fibercoat (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · and 301 more: all insulating cement and coatings
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by National Gypsum (12)
Asbestone · Woodrock · Asbestos Permaboard · Asbestone 400 · Pliaboard · Chroma-Tone · Classic-Shake · Humigard · Pps · Ranch Style · Sussex 32 · Therm-O-Tec
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (371)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Duracolor (GAF) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Duralite (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Duroc (GAF) · Dutch Lap (GAF) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Equality (Johns-Manville) · Eternit (GAF) · Eternit (Ruberoid) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · Eternit Stonewall (GAF) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · and 351 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- National Gypsum: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- National Gypsum on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1955, September 1955 (September 1, 1955), p. 22.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 74. Not yet published in our library.
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“Economy 250 (National Gypsum).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/national-gypsum-economy-250.
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