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Asbestos cement competed with aluminum alloy, available in large quantities after WWII, and the reemergence of wood clapboard and vinyl siding in the mid to late 20th century. Asbestos cement is usually formed into flat or corrugated sheets or into pipes, but can be molded into any shape that can be formed using wet cement.
At the time, the company manufactured products out of asbestos cement sheet and other related building material. [6] By the middle of the twentieth century, James Hardie had become the largest manufacturer and distributor of building products, insulation, pipes and brake linings containing asbestos.
In 1953, the company bought Porters Cement Industries Ltd, a major producer of chrysotile asbestos products, based in Salisbury and Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia, and changed its name to Turnall Fibre Cement (Pvt) Ltd. [9] Turnall Fibre Cement Ltd still operates in Zimbabwe but as an independent company, mainly producing asbestos cement sheets ...
RMC Group plc (formerly "Ready Mixed Concrete Limited") was a ready mixed concrete, quarrying and concrete products company headquartered in Egham, United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index , but was acquired by Cemex of Mexico in 2005.
In time it became a generic term for other companies' similar asbestos-cement products, and later an even more generic term for a hard, fireproof composite material, fibre cement boards, typically used in wall construction. It can also be found in insulation, siding, roof gutters, and cement wallboard. The more prevalent transite found in wall ...
Parks and schools were closed Thursday in a Southern California city after officials found asbestos in the charred debris of an historic World War II-era blimp hangar. The city of Tustin closed at ...
Everest Industries Limited was founded in 1934 under the name of Asbestos Cement Ltd. [7] in Maharashtra. In 1983, the company changed its name to Everest Building Product Ltd., in the same year the company went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange. [8] In 1990 the company was renamed Eternit Everest Ltd. It got its current name in 2003.
Johnson & Johnson is facing lawsuits from more than 62,000 claimants, who have alleged that the company’s baby powder and other talc products were contaminated with asbestos and caused ovarian ...