Documents in our library describe Stazon (North American Refractories) as “insulating cement, 50 lb. multi-wall paper bags”.1 They give it as made 1957–1971.2 They put its asbestos content at 2% to 9%.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 1900 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Stazon (North American Refractories) in the documents, in each document's own words.
North American Refractories Company's Notice of Compliance with Plaintiffs' Request to Produce in Madison County (1987)
- Description: “High Temperature Mineral Wool insulating material”, p. 471
- Temperature limit: “1800 F”, p. 471
- Form: “insulating cement, 50 lb. multi-wall paper bags”, p. 481
- Warning label: “asbestos warnings provided by Eagle-Picher”, p. 31
- Sold until: “discontinued by 1971”, p. 31
- Description: “relabeled (Eagle-Picher product)”, p. 31
- Description: “plastic mineral wool insulation”, p. 361
- Temperature limit: “1900° F”, p. 361
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (1994)
North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (1995)
- Made at: “Joplin Insulation Plant (Eagle-Picher)”, p. 354
- Warning label: “Caution notice”, p. 354
- Description: “cement manufactured by Eagle-Picher under NARCO's label”, p. 324
- Asbestos content: “asbestos as a constituent”, p. 324
- Warning label: “cautionary note printed on the bags (planned)”, p. 324
- Warning label: “same cautionary note on bags or by sticker label (requested)”, p. 334
- Warning label: “note printed on the bag or applied by sticker label”, p. 344
Kind of product
We list Stazon (North American Refractories) with insulating cement and coatings and paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by North American Refractories (3)
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (321)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Single Cote (GAF) · SP Emulsion (Armstrong Cork) · Spray-mastic (Eagle-Picher) · Ss-10 (A. P. Green Firebrick Co.) · Ss-11 (A. P. Green Firebrick Co.) · Stalastic (Eagle-Picher) · Stamastic (Eagle-Picher) · Stic-tite (Combustion Engineering) · Stirup (Combustion Engineering) · Super 48 (48 Insulations) · Super 48 (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Super 606 (Philip Carey) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Super 711 (Combustion Engineering) · Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · and 301 more: all insulating cement and coatings
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (299)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Spec Ira-440-W (Celotex) · Spec Ira-441-SW (Celotex) · Spec Ira-441-W (Celotex) · Special Coated Asbestos Base Felt (Johns-Manville) · Spintex (Johns-Manville) · Standard Flex M-k (Johns-Manville) · Standard Flexible Min-k blankets (Johns-Manville) · Stonefelt (Unarco) · Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Super Insubestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · T/NA 200 (Ruberoid) · Telgard (Johns-Manville) · Terratex (G.E.) · Terratex (General Electric) · Thermafelt (H. K. Porter) · and 279 more: all paper, felt and millboard
References
- North American Refractories Company's Notice of Compliance with Plaintiffs' Request to Produce in Madison County (January 1, 1963), pp. 36, 47–48.
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
- North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (October 25, 1994), p. 36.
- North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (June 1, 1964), p. 35.
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