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Monobestos (Nicolet)

Monobestos was an asbestos-cement sheet and board made by Nicolet Industries at its plant in Ambler, Pennsylvania.1,2 In 1966 Nicolet listed "K-M monobestos board, a heat-resistant, inorganic structural material," among its monolithic asbestos-cement products.2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Monobestos sheets as made by Nicolet from 1962 to 1981, with the note "KEASBEY & MATTISON-62."3 The list itself is dated 1981, so that end year may mean it was still being made.3

In 1965 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the Ambler plant had put into use a 6,900-ton press that made the 4x8-foot asbestos-cement blanks for Monobestos and three other Nicolet sheet products, compressing "a mixture of asbestos, cement, selected fillers and water."1

Nicolet announced in 1965 that a fabricator would make Monobestos to "the exacting requirements of the electrical industry."4 In 1966 it described the board as "especially designed for use as fume hoods, arc barriers, walls and ceilings."2

Earlier years: Keasbey & Mattison Monobestos.

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, March 1965

  • Ingredient: “a mixture of asbestos, cement, selected fillers and water”, p. 121
  • 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. 121

Asbestos Magazine, 1966, December 1966

  • Description: “K-M monobestos board, a heat-resistant, inorganic structural material”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 172
  • Use: “fume hoods, arc barriers, walls and ceilings”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 172

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

  • Made from: “62”, p. 63
  • Made until: “81”, p. 63
  • Description: “KEASBEY & MATTISON-62”, p. 63
  • Form: “SHEETS”, p. 63

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, August 1965

  • Use: “Monobestos fabricated to the requirements of the electrical industry”, said by Nicolet Industries, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 224

Label: Monobestos (Nicolet, Inc.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: October 31, 1936”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file5

Kind of product

We list Monobestos (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 · Kolormate · 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.) · Micro-Flexboard (J/Hns-Manville) · Mill Board (Ruberoid) · Min-k 1301 (Johns-Manville) · Min-k 500 (Johns-Manville) · Miraweld (Kaiser Refractories) · Molten Metal Marinite (Johns-Manville) · Monobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Narro-Side (Supradur) · No. 1 Hard (Philip Carey) · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (Johns-Manville) · No. 60 Service Sheet (Johns-Manville) · No. 701 (Keasbey & Mattison) · Nordeskafilt (Nordesk A Moskinfilt Aktiebologet) · Novabestos Electricl (Irvington) · 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, 1965, March 1965 (March 1, 1965), p. 12.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, December 1966 (December 1, 1966), p. 17.
  3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 6.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, August 1965 (August 1, 1965), p. 22.
  5. Label: Monobestos (Nicolet, Inc.), Image.

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