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Aerogun (North American Refractories)

Documents in our library describe Aerogun (North American Refractories) as “gunning mixes or castables”.1 They give it as made from 1970.2 They put its asbestos content at 10%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1800 °F.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Aerogun (North American Refractories) in the documents, in each document's own words.

North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (1994)

  • Made at: “Farber”, p. 361
  • Asbestos content: “10%” (at Farber), p. 361
  • Asbestos content: “10%” (at Curwensville), p. 361
  • Made at: “Curwensville”, p. 361
  • Asbestos content: “10%” (at Caledonia), p. 361
  • Made at: “Caledonia”, p. 361
  • Asbestos fiber: “chrysotile asbestos”, p. 361
  • Form: “gunning mixes or castables”, p. 361

North American Refractories Company's Notice of Compliance with Plaintiffs' Request to Produce in Madison County (1987)

  • Made from: “a new NARCO product (December 1970)”, p. 432
  • Use: “furnace walls, roofs, soot hoppers, top decks, drum coverings”, p. 432
  • Made at: “Farber, Mo. plant”, p. 432
  • Ingredient: “Vermiculite-base”, p. 432
  • Temperature limit: “1800° F”, p. 432
  • Made at: “Curwensville, Pa. plant”, p. 432
  • Description: “lightweight insulating gun and castable refractory”, p. 432

North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (1995)

  • Description: “lightweight back-up insulation for brick or dense castable working linings”, p. 93
  • Use: “back-up service in furnace walls, roofs, soot hoppers, top decks, drum coverings”, p. 103
  • Temperature limit: “1800°F”, p. 103
  • Use: “boiler breeching”, p. 133

North American Refractories Company's Supplemental Rule 220 Compliance in Bank of Alton v. A. P. Green Refractories, with R&D Reports on Eliminating Asbestos (1989)

  • Asbestos content: “contain asbestos (sold during 1975 and 1976)”, p. 314
  • Change: “asbestos replaced in modified AEROGUN made at Farber; denser mix, much less magnesia”, p. 144
  • Change: “new data sheet issued; asbestos-elimination program completed”, p. 124
  • Change: “proposed for inclusion in asbestos-elimination program, if tonnage sufficient”, p. 384
  • Asbestos fiber: “asbestos (a magnesium silicate)”, p. 144
  • Made at: “Farber”, p. 144

Kind of product

We list Aerogun (North American Refractories) with refractories, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Boilermakers, Refractory Bricklayers.

Other refractories by North American Refractories (25)

Narcolite · Narcogun Pd-345 · Cm-18 Gun Mix · Narcocrete · Narcogun CO. · Narcogun Mc-339 · Narcogun Mcd-344 · Narcogun P-340 · Narcogun Sd-336 · Narmag OH Gun Mix · Super 505 Hot Gun C · Wo-339 MC Gun · Anti-erode Trowel · Bof-cote · Bof-patch · CM Gun Mix · Kurosaki Slide Gate Refractory · Low-k · Mc-gun Mix · Narcocast ES Fine Trowel · and 5 more on our products page

Refractories by other makers (26)

319 Semi-refractory (Johns-Manville) · 678 Semi-refractory (Johns-Manville) · 106 (Eagle-Picher) · Alumino-Hi-Temp (Philip Carey) · Pyrobar (U.S. Gypsum) · Thermo-Chem (Johns-Manville) · Thermo-Pac (Johns-Manville) · Thermo-Pac 2700 (Johns-Manville) · Vitricel (Philip Carey) · Windsor Brick (GAF) · Woodrock (National Gypsum) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · Bromley's Honor Pledge (George W. Bromley) · Cellotone (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Company) · Coelex 60 Unitab Brick (Kaiser Refractories) · Dum Dum Armacote (Mobil Chemical) · Fibrous Adhesive (General Refractories) · Insulag (Quigley) · Johns-Manville Jm (Johns-Manville) · Lasting Protection (Lasting Products) · and 6 more: all refractories

References

  1. North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (October 25, 1994), p. 36.
  2. North American Refractories Company's Notice of Compliance with Plaintiffs' Request to Produce in Madison County (December 1, 1970), p. 43.
  3. North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (June 1, 1981), pp. 9–10.
  4. North American Refractories Company's Supplemental Rule 220 Compliance in Bank of Alton v. A. P. Green Refractories, with R&D Reports on Eliminating Asbestos (September 28, 1976), p. 31.

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