Alumino-Hi-Temp (Philip Carey)

Alumino-Hi-Temp was a high-temperature insulation made by The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, first announced as Carey Aluminite.^1,2 In May 1930 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, carried Carey's news of "a commercial high temperature heat insulating material derived from bauxite, the ore from which aluminum metal is produced," developed with the Aluminum Company of America and the Mellon Institute.¹ Three months later the magazine reported that "because of confliction with other products" the name Aluminite had been changed to Alumino-Hi-Temp.²

That August item also corrected the first article: "it seems we did not state that this material contained asbestos fibre," the magazine wrote, adding that the sample block in its possession was light tan, "with the asbestos fibres plainly visible."²

In May 1930 Carey was planning a half-million-dollar plant at East Saint Louis next to Alcoa's ore plant, where the bauxite would be made into insulating blocks, bricks and powder.¹ The magazine's review of 1930 said Carey put Alumino-Hi-Temp on the market that year and built its new factory for it at Saint Louis.³ From 1931 Carey advertised Alumino Hi-Temp blocks, bricks and cement as "semi-refractory insulation."⁴

Carey said the material was designed for electric furnaces, fire-brick boiler settings, heat treating and glass furnaces, and regenerator chambers in iron, steel and other industries, where internal temperatures ranged from 1800° F. to 2600° F.¹ Alcoa was equipping its new electric furnaces at Alcoa, Tennessee, with it.¹

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Alumino-Hi-Temp (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kind of product

We list Alumino-Hi-Temp (Philip Carey) with insulating cement and coatings and refractories, 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, Refractory Bricklayers.

See also

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

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, May 1930 (May 1, 1930), p. 24.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, August 1930 (August 1, 1930), p. 61.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, January 1931 (January 1, 1931), p. 5.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, November 1931 (November 1, 1931), p. 7.