Documents in our library describe Fiber-Shake (Supradur) as “[ asbestos ] * fiber * -cement siding shingles”.1 They give it as sold from 1952.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Fiber-Shake (Supradur) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.
Label: Fiber-Shake (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20319
Label: Supradur Fiber-Shake mineral fiber siding (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20602
What each document says
Every statement about Fiber-Shake (Supradur) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Label: Fiber-Shake (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: March 24, 1952”, said by Supradur Manufacturing Corp., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Label: Supradur Fiber-Shake mineral fiber siding (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: March 24, 1952”, said by Supradur Manufacturing Corp., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “Fiber Shake (listed, product not given)” (as of 1953-present), p. 754
Kind of product
We list Fiber-Shake (Supradur) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Supradur (13)
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (370)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Eternit Stonewall (GAF) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · Face Span (Johns-Manville) · Facespan (Johns-Manville) · Ferobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Fire-chex 325 (Philip Carey) · Firefoil (Philip Carey) · Flat Transite (Johns-Manville) · Flexite (Johns-Manville) · Flintite (Flintkote) · Flintite (Orangeburg) · and 350 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (April 23, 1965). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Fiber-Shake (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.), Image.
- Label: Supradur Fiber-Shake mineral fiber siding (Supradur Manufacturing Corp.), Image.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 75. Not yet published in our library.
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