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Kolormate (Nicolet)

KolorMate was an asbestos-cement sheet made by Nicolet Industries, Inc.1,2 In May 1964 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, described "a rugged asbestos-cement sheet called K&M KolorMate, manufactured by Nicolet Industries, Inc., of Florham Park, New Jersey"; the same issue reported that the Keasbey & Mattison Company Division had merged into Nicolet as of April 1964.1 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives KolorMate sheets as made by Nicolet from 1962 to 1970.3

In 1965 the magazine reported that Nicolet's plant in Ambler, Pennsylvania, had put into use a 6,900-ton press that made the 4x8-foot asbestos-cement blanks for KolorMate and three other Nicolet sheet products.4 The press compressed "a mixture of asbestos, cement, selected fillers and water."4

The 1964 item said KolorMate covered the countertops of all 85 steel toll booths at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.1 Nicolet's announcements called it its "new laboratory top material" in 1965 and, in 1966, "a monolithic asbestos-cement sheet which is finding great acceptance in laboratories as a heat- and chemical-resistant substitute for stone."5,6 Its 1965 catalog showed KolorMate in laboratory furniture, building interiors and architectural panels.4 In 1970 the magazine reported it in use for the fire-extinguisher chamber doors of a state highway tunnel through Big Walker Mountain, near Wytheville, Virginia.2

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What each document says

Every statement about Kolormate (Nicolet) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1964, May 1964

  • Use: “countertops of 85 steel toll booths for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair” (sales to 1964-1965 New York World's Fair toll booths (fabricator David Asbestos Company, Brooklyn)), p. 71
  • Description: “a rugged asbestos-cement sheet called K&M KolorMate, manufactured by Nicolet Industries, Inc.”, p. 71

Asbestos Magazine, 1970, February 1970

  • Use: “fire-extinguisher chamber doors in the state highway tunnel through Big Walker Mountain near Wytheville, Virginia” (sales to Big Walker Mountain highway tunnel, Virginia (fabricator Brunswick Asbestos Company, Philadelphia)), p. 282
  • Description: “a monolithic asbestos-cement sheet developed and manufactured by Nicolet Industries, Inc., Ambler, Pennsylvania”, p. 282

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “62”, p. 63
  • Made until: “70”, p. 63
  • Form: “SHEETS”, p. 63

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, March 1965

  • Use: “laboratory furniture, building interiors and architectural panels”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 124
  • Made at: “Nicolet's plant in Ambler, Pennsylvania (press makes the blanks for Monobestos, Resistal, KolorMate and Ebonized Asbestos)” (at Ambler, Pennsylvania) (the plant: Ambler, Pennsylvania), p. 124
  • Ingredient: “a mixture of asbestos, cement, selected fillers and water”, p. 124

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, August 1965

  • Use: “Nicolet's new laboratory top material, KolorMate”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 225

Asbestos Magazine, 1966, December 1966

  • Description: “a monolithic asbestos-cement sheet, heat- and chemical-resistant substitute for stone in laboratories”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 176

Label: KolorMate vinyl coated asbestos cement sheet (Nicolet Industries, Inc.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: February 21, 1962”, said by Nicolet Industries, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file7
  • Asbestos content: “A rigid monolithic ASBESTOS CEMENT sheet which is highly resistant to physical shock, chemicals, heat and hard wear.”, p. 17
  • Description: “asbestos-cement sheet” (as of 1976), p. 898

Kind of product

We list Kolormate (Nicolet) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Nicolet (13)

Sal-mo · Monobestos · Aircell · Honeycomb · Hy-swell · Asbestos Millboard Mb-1 · K-board · Kon-x · Norbestos · Norriscell · Resistal · Nortex · Sbr

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (370)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · K & M 801 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K&M Trafford Tile Asbestos Cement (Keasbey & Mattison) · Kamflex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Klingerpac (Klinger) · KolorMate (Keasbey & Mattison) · Korduct (Johns-Manville) · Linabestos (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Linabestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Linalbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Ludlite Paneling (Allegheny Ludlum Steel) · Magna-Tones (Supradur) · Magno (Johns-Manville) · Marimet 45 (Johns-Manville) · and 350 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

  • Nicolet: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
  • Nicolet on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1964, May 1964 (May 1, 1964), p. 7.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1970, February 1970 (February 1, 1970), p. 28.
  3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 6.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, March 1965 (March 1, 1965), p. 12.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, August 1965 (August 1, 1965), p. 22.
  6. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, December 1966 (December 1, 1966), p. 17.
  7. Label: KolorMate vinyl coated asbestos cement sheet (Nicolet Industries, Inc.), Image.
  8. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 89. Not yet published in our library.

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