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A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum)

A.B. Tex was a texture paint made by the United States Gypsum Company.1 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists it under U.S. Gypsum as a spray texture made from 1944 to 1975.2

A 1990 EPA notice that published what U.S. Gypsum reported says A-B Tex Texture Paint was produced between 1935 and 1974 at seven plants, though not at all of them at once.1 It gives the years for each: Gypsum, Ohio, 1935 to 1949 and 1954 to 1973; New Brighton, New York, 1935 to 1949 and 1954 to 1968; South Gate, California, 1943 to 1944 and 1954 to 1974; Sweetwater, Texas, 1948 to 1950; Chamblee, Georgia, 1959 to 1973; Hagersville, Canada, 1962 to 1963, and again in 1973; and Midway, Illinois, in 1973 only.1

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

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

  • Made from: “44”, p. 32
  • Form: “SPRAY TEXTURE”, p. 32
  • Made until: “75”, p. 32

United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (1986)

  • Made from: “A-B TEX: First Produced 1935”, p. 503
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1935-1949, Gypsum, OH” (the plant: Gypsum, Ohio), p. 503
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1959 only, New Brighton, NY” (the plant: New Brighton, New York), p. 503
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1973 only, Sweetwater, TX” (the plant: Sweetwater, Texas), p. 503
  • Asbestos content: “4.5% by volume” (as of 1943-01-01), p. 553
  • Asbestos content: “.5% by volume”, p. 563
  • Asbestos content: “4.0% by volume” (as of 1944-01-01), p. 553
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), South Gate, CA” (the plant: South Gate, California), p. 503
  • Asbestos content: “4.0% by volume” (as of 1935-01-01), p. 553
  • Form: “Texture Paint”, p. 503
  • Asbestos content: “1.2-1.6% by volume”, p. 563
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), Chamblee, GA” (the plant: Chamblee, Georgia), p. 503
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), Midway, IL” (the plant: Midway, Illinois), p. 503
  • Made until: “A-B TEX: Last Produced 1973 only”, p. 503

United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma

  • Made from: “A-B TEX: First Produced 1935”, p. 434
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1935-1949, Gypsum, OH” (the plant: Gypsum, Ohio), p. 434
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1959 only, New Brighton, NY” (the plant: New Brighton, New York), p. 434
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: 1973 only, Sweetwater, TX” (the plant: Sweetwater, Texas), p. 434
  • Made until: “A-B TEX: Last Produced 1973 only”, p. 434
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), Chamblee, GA” (the plant: Chamblee, Georgia), p. 434
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), Midway, IL” (the plant: Midway, Illinois), p. 434
  • Asbestos content: “4.0% by volume” (as of 1944-01-01), p. 474
  • Asbestos content: “.5% by volume”, p. 484
  • Made at: “A-B TEX: (no date), South Gate, CA” (the plant: South Gate, California), p. 434
  • Form: “Texture Paint”, p. 434
  • Asbestos content: “4.0% by volume” (as of 1935-01-01), p. 474
  • Asbestos content: “4.5% by volume” (as of 1943-01-01), p. 474
  • Asbestos content: “1.2 - 1.6% by volume”, p. 484

Kind of product

We list A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum) with joint compound and texture coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other joint compound and texture coatings by U.S. Gypsum (13)

Imperial · Sheetrock · Texolite · Textone · Perf-a-tape · Usg · Covercoat · Durabond · Joint compound · Kemidol · Pac-Tex · Paste Spackling Putty · Sheet Rock

Joint compound and texture coatings by other makers (10)

Vitramic (maker not given) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Ceiling (Georgia-Pacific) · Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) · Ready Mix (Georgia-Pacific) · Scotstone (Marinite) · Wall (Georgia-Pacific) · Homart (Sears) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · Surco (Surface Coatings)

See also

References

  1. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 19.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  3. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), p. 50.
  4. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), p. 43.

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