Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt)

Documents in our library describe Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt) as “finish coating (cold room finish)”.¹ It was rated for temperatures up to 250 °F.¹

What each document says

Every statement about Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

• Temperature limit: “-10 to 250”, p. 126¹
• Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Fibrated)”, p. 126¹
• Form: “Finish Coating (Cold Room Finish)”, p. 121¹
• Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Cold Room Finish)”, p. 121¹
• Asbestos content: “Asphalt base clay emulsion and asbestos fibers. Filler content is varied to get desired temperature limits.”, p. 126¹
• Temperature limit: “-20 to 200”, p. 121¹
• Form: “Weather Barrier Coating”, p. 126¹
• Asbestos content: “Asphalt with asbestos fibers, can also contain clay and silica sand.”, p. 121¹

Kind of product

We list Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt) 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.

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (324)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Hi-Spred No. 43-784 (Morningstar-Paisley) · Hi-stick (Eagle-Picher) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hilite (Combustion Engineering) · Hy Temp (Armstrong Cork) · Hy Temp (Keasbey & Mattison) · Hylo (Eagle-Picher) · Insul-finish (General Refractories) · Insulation Seal (Celotex) · Insulkote ET (Johns-Manville) · Insulkote ST (Johns-Manville) · Insulmastic (Armstrong Cork) · Insulseal (Eagle-Picher) · Insulstic (Eagle-Picher) · Johns-Manville Jm (Johns-Manville) · and 304 more: all insulating cement and coatings

References

1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), pp. 121, 126.