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Unicote (North American Refractories)

Documents in our library describe Unicote (North American Refractories) as “finishing cement”.1 They give it as made from 1957.2 They put its asbestos content at 5%.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 1200 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Unicote (North American Refractories) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Eagle-Picher Industries asbestos trust or the North American Refractories Company asbestos trust. Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about Unicote (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)

  • Form: “finishing cement”, p. 491
  • Temperature limit: “1000 F”, p. 491
  • 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: “dry, fibrous material with a mineral wool base”, p. 491
  • Temperature limit: “1200° F”, p. 361
  • Description: “plastic mineral wool insulation that insulates, protects and finishes”, p. 361

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

  • Made from: “57”, p. 92
  • Description: “REBRAND EAGLE-PICHER”, p. 92
  • Asbestos content: “5”, p. 92
  • Form: “CEMENT”, p. 92

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

  • Warning label: “asbestos warning labels, proposed by Eagle-Picher in June 1964; NARCO agreed”, p. 363
  • Sold until: “a period of time ending in 1971”, p. 363
  • Same product as: “Eagle-Picher One-Cote”, p. 363
  • Description: “sold very infrequently and in small quantities”, p. 363

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

  • Warning label: “Caution notice”, p. 354
  • Made at: “Joplin Insulation Plant (Eagle-Picher)”, p. 354
  • Description: “cement manufactured by Eagle-Picher under NARCO's label”, p. 324
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos as a constituent”, 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 Unicote (North American Refractories) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains 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)

Stazon · Narco Surfa-Seal · Narco Block-Stick

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (321)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Thermomix 810 (Johns-Manville) · Trica-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Trowel and Spray Grade (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Turnall (Atlas Asbestos) · Type 19 (Crown Cork & Seal) · Type 7 (Flintkote) · Type M (Crown Cork & Seal) · Utility (Combustion Engineering) · Valculite (Keene/Ehret) · Vermont Asbestos 7M (Ruberoid) · Vitramic (Ruberoid) · Vitricel (Philip Carey) · Vitricel 10 (Philip Carey) · Weather Mastic (HT) (National Cork) · Weather-Sure 301 (Insul-Coustic) · and 301 more: all insulating cement and coatings

References

  1. North American Refractories Company's Notice of Compliance with Plaintiffs' Request to Produce in Madison County (January 1, 1963), pp. 36, 49.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 9.
  3. North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (October 25, 1994), p. 36.
  4. North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (June 1, 1964), p. 35.

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