Asbestos Trade Names
Trade names of Asbestos Containing Materials
The following table displays all the various trade names for asbestos containing materials (ACMs).
The type and percentage of each fibre has been provided where this has been possible to obtain from the original manufacturer.
It should be noted that this table should be treated with caution; despite this information being a useful guide, you should bear in mind that when manufacturing products that contained asbestos, breaking specifications was a common occurrence.
As such, you should always be suspicious of whether the particular fibre that you would have expected to be used for an ACM you have identified (in line with the information provided in this table) is the actual fibre that was legitimately used.
The only way to be sure of a product’s fibre content is by an analysis by a UKAS approved laboratory.
Please also bear in mind that trade names and descriptions were often the same in the past.
AC = Asbestos Cement
LD = Low Density
Aberthaw |
? |
? |
AC |
A range of asbestos cement products |
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Airbrick connecting piece |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1953 to 84 |
AC |
Used in cavity walls |
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Arcon Sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1945 to 70 |
AC |
Walls of pre-fabs |
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Artex |
3.5% Chrysotile |
Up to 84 |
Paint |
Textured paint |
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Aprons |
85% chrysotile |
1939 to 78 |
LD |
Aprons to protect from heat and chemicals |
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Asbestolux |
16 to 30% Amosite |
1951 to 1980 |
LD |
Fire protection & insulation product |
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Asbestos reinforced felt |
75 to 96% chrysotile |
1930 to 39 |
felt |
Felt roofing |
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Asbestos felt aluminium reinforced |
75 to 96% chrysotile |
1930 to 39 |
felt |
Felt roofing |
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Asbestos Paper |
75 to 96% chrysotile |
1939 to 77 |
LD |
Stamped into shapes engine components |
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Asbestos Spacer |
? |
? |
AC |
Spacer batten |
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Asbestos Wallboard |
25 to 40% chrysotile |
1930 to 72 |
LD |
Flat fire protection board |
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Asbestos Wood |
13 to 25% chrysotile and amosite |
1931 to 1984 |
AC |
Flat fire protection Board should be treated as low density board |
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Astos |
? |
? |
Damp proof course |
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Atlas |
A trade name used for a variety of products both AC and LD |
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Atlas Major Tile |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
? to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Atlas 3″ standard |
? |
? to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Atlas Tile |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Backwater control sumps |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1959 to 74 |
AC |
Water installations |
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Bandall Cape blue |
Crocidolite |
? |
LD |
Insulating blocks mainly used in ships |
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Bantile |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing product |
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Bar Spacers |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1971 to 73 |
AC |
Cable distance piece |
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Bath Panels |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1928 to 6? |
AC |
Sides to baths |
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BD2 cement |
? |
? |
LD |
Hard coating applied to spray finishes |
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Big six |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1923 to 99 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Brake Pads |
? |
1935 to ? |
Brake pads for vehicles, lifts, etc |
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Brixia LP |
? |
? |
AC |
? |
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Bulldog finishes |
? |
? |
LD |
Hard coatings to spray finishes |
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Cable Conduits |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1939 to 74 |
AC |
Carrying electrical cables (pipes) |
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Cable Troughs |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 8? |
AC |
Carrying electrical cables (U shaped) |
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Calcium Silicate Plastic |
15 to 30% amosite and or Chrysotile |
? |
? |
Rigid Lightweight insulation |
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Cambridge Hut units |
? |
? |
AC |
Profile and curved sheets |
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Canada Tile |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Cape Slates |
? |
? |
AC |
Roofing Slates |
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Caposil |
10 to 30% Amosite |
? |
LD |
Insulating blocks |
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Caposite Insulation blocks |
75 to 85% Amosite |
? |
LD |
Heat retention blocks in storage heaters |
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Caposite moulded insulation |
? |
? |
LD |
Moulded insulation/lagging |
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Cavity Decking |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1947 to 74 |
AC |
Flat roofing |
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Cladding Tiles |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 75 |
AC |
Vertical Cladding sheet |
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Cisterns Cold water storage |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1941 to 8? |
AC |
Cold water storage mainly domestic |
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Coal bunker lids |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1962 to 74 |
AC |
Coal bunker lids |
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Colourbestos |
? |
? |
AC |
Decorative & textured flat sheet |
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Colourcoat |
A matt colour finish applied to asbestos cement roofing products |
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Colourglaze |
A gloss colour finish applied to asbestos cement products |
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Colourprest |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1965 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Colourscape |
A coloured finish applied to a range of asbestos cement products |
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Combined sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1937 to 67 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Concave Panel Sheet |
? |
? |
AC |
Vertical cladding sheet |
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Conveyor buckets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1965 to 74 |
AC |
Conveyor buckets |
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Continuous Ridge Ventilator |
? |
? |
AC |
Continuous ridge Ventilator |
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Cooling tower fan stacks |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1966 to 74 |
AC |
Profiled sheeting used in water cooling towers |
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Coracem Super Four |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Corri-Panel |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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CTE (cooling tower elements) |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
? |
AC |
Cooling tower elements normally profiled sheets |
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Cyclones and collectors |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1935 to 40 |
AC |
Containers for fine particles (coal dust salt etc) |
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Curtains |
85% chrysotile |
1930 to ? |
LD |
Curtains |
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Decodex |
? |
? |
LD |
A hard coating applied to sprayed asbestos |
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Diamond (small and large) pattern flat sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheets |
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Doublesix |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1952 to 75 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Doublesix M |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1975 to 85 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Double Cladding for walling |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 68 |
AC |
Walls to pre-fabs |
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Draining Boards |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 61 |
AC |
Draining Boards |
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Durasteel Panels |
Pre 1974 aprox. 23% after 74 aprox 13% Amosite & chrysotile |
1934 to 1978 |
LD? |
Steel faced sheets which contained an asbestos containing core until 1978. Products supplied after 1978 are non-asbestos some products supplied from 74 are non asbestos. |
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Econite |
? |
? |
? |
Pre-formed pipe insulation, which may have incorporated asbestos paper |
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E-flex |
? |
? |
AC |
A smooth surfaced flat sheet |
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Electrofine paper laminate |
75 to 94% chrysotile |
1930 to 77 |
LD |
Wrapping of copper strips and tubes |
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Elith |
? |
1911 to ? |
AC |
Slates |
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Emaille – luxe |
? |
? |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Eterspan |
? |
? |
AC |
Vertical cladding sheet |
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Everite |
A family trade name for a variety of asbestos cement products |
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Everitube Slates |
? |
? |
AC |
Roofing slates |
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Extractor Ventilator |
? |
? |
AC |
Extractor ventilator |
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Extruded Cills |
? |
? |
AC |
Window cills |
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Facade |
? |
? |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Featherline Weatherboard |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1964 to 76 |
AC |
Vertical cladding |
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Fencing |
? |
? |
AC |
Fencing |
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Ferobestos |
50% chrysotile |
1971 to ? |
? |
Specialist engineering component |
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Fibre rope rings |
85% chrysotile |
1939 to ? |
? |
? |
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Fibro Super |
? |
1911 to ? |
AC |
Profiled sheeting |
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Fibro Tile |
? |
1911 to ? |
AC |
Profiled sheeting |
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Fish rearing tanks |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1964 to 72 |
AC |
Fish rearing tanks |
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Flexible sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
? |
AC |
Thin flexible flat sheet |
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Flower boxes |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1955 to 84 |
AC |
Flower boxes |
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Flue pipes and fittings |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1927 to 8? |
AC |
Flue pipes |
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Fluted pattern flat sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1944 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Fonmon Roofing Tile |
? |
? |
AC |
A small profiled roofing sheet |
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Fort |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Fully Compressed flat sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1931 to 85 |
AC |
Smooth surface flat sheet |
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Fume Cabinets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1950 to 73 |
AC |
Used in laboratories |
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Galbestos |
Chrysotile |
1938 to 77 |
Profiled metal sheeting with asbestos felt on both sides coated with either bitumen or polyester resin |
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Glasal |
? |
To 84 |
AC |
A decorative surfaced flat sheet |
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Glasal Relief |
? |
To 84 |
AC |
A decorative textured surface flat sheet |
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Glen 252 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Glen 3 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Glen 6 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Gloves |
85% chrysotile |
1939 to 70 |
LD |
Gloves |
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GPO distribution Pillars |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1947 to 72 |
AC |
Phone connection box |
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Granitex |
? |
To 84 |
AC |
Flat sheet with an aggregate finish |
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Granitone Sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 73 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheets |
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Gridfill |
? amosite |
? |
LD |
Ceiling tiles |
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Handcraft Hut Units |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled sheets |
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Hendon Purlin Tiles |
? |
? |
AC |
Under tile sheet |
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Hexagon pattern flat sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Hollow construction bldg slabs |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 39 |
AC |
Flat roofs |
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Hoods and Canopies |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 63 |
AC |
Removal of fumes and gases |
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Insulated Decking |
? |
? |
AC |
Flat roofing product |
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Insulation Boards |
25 to 35 % chrysotile and amosite – prior to 1965 small quantities of crocidolite were used |
1952 to 80 |
LD |
Flat fire protection board |
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Interlock Decking |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1957 to 63 |
AC |
Flat roofs |
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Large Span |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1954 to 61 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Large Span Combined sheets |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roof sheet |
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Laundry Press Pads |
80% chrysotile |
1939 to 70 |
LD |
Laundry press pads |
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LDR Ships board |
31 to 41% chrysotile and amosite |
1952 to 76 |
LD |
Fire protection board |
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Limpet sprayed asbestos |
Up to 85% chrysotile and amosite |
1931 to 74 |
LD |
Fire protection, condensation control and sound absorption |
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Louvre Blades |
? |
? |
AC |
Louvre blades |
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85% Magnesia |
10 to 15% amosite |
? |
LD |
Lining to ships |
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Magnesia |
15%+ chrysotile and or crocidolite |
? |
LD |
Insulation material |
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Magnesium oxycloride flooring |
Up to 2% chrysotile |
? |
AC |
Floor tiles |
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Magnum Sheets |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Major 6 |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
? to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Major Span |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Marble glazed flat sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 39 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheet |
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Marblecoat |
? |
? |
Paint |
Textured paint |
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Marinite 36 |
16 to 30% amosite ? |
? |
LD |
Fire protection and insulation product |
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Marinite 45 |
16 to 30% amosite ? |
? |
LD |
Fire protection and insulation product |
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Marvernit |
? |
1924 to ? |
AC |
Decorative flat sheets |
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Massal Sheets |
? |
? |
AC |
Smooth surface flat sheet |
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Massal Window Cills |
? |
? |
AC |
Window cills |
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Metric Corri Panel |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Metric Vertile Sheet |
? |
? |
AC |
Vertical cladding product |
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Monad |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
? to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Monolithic Sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1964 to 69 |
AC |
Cladding sheet |
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Mill Board |
37 to 97% chrysotile |
1930 to 8? |
? |
Heavy duty thermal insulation components |
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Mock Chimneys |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1945 to 74 |
AC |
For pre-fab houses |
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Molded beam and column casings – asbestos wood |
25 to 30% chrysotile |
1962 to 72 |
AC treat as LD |
Fire protection around columns and beams |
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Newtempheit |
10- to 15% amosite |
? |
LD |
Lining to ships |
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Newtex |
? |
? |
Paint |
Textured paint |
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Newtone Slates |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1935 to 49 |
AC |
Roofing slates |
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Novilon |
? |
? |
Floor |
Floor tile with asbestos paper backing |
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Oak grained panels |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1933 to 39 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheet |
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Omnia-Atlas Trough Slabs |
? |
? |
AC |
Flooring |
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Oxford Hut Units |
? |
? |
AC |
Profile and curved sheets |
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Panel Sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1952 to 84 |
AC |
Profiled vertical cladding sheet |
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Paneled Underlining |
? |
? |
AC |
Linning panel |
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Pantiles |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1935 to 39 |
AC |
Profiled roofing tile |
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Partition Boards |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1952 to 95 |
AC |
Flexible flat sheet |
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Patterned ceiling panels |
32 to 35% chrysotile and amosite |
1963 to 74 |
LD |
Ceiling tiles |
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Paxfelt |
? |
? |
LD |
Insulation to air conditioning trunking and sound attenuation |
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Pebblecoat |
? |
? |
Paint |
Textured coating |
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Pebbledash flat sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1928 to 39 |
AC |
Flat sheet with aggregate finish |
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Philplug |
? chrysotile and amosite |
? |
LD |
Wall plugging compound |
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Pierrite |
? |
? |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Pical |
? |
? |
AC |
Decorative flat sheet |
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Pipes for bulk storage |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1962 to 70 |
AC |
Cold water storage |
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Plain Black glazed sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 39 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheets |
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Plain white glazed sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1934 to 39 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheets |
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Plant Containers |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1955 to 75 |
AC |
Plant containers |
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Pluto Board |
? Amosite + pos crocidolite |
1942 to ? | LD |
Fire Protection Board |
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Pluto blue asbestos mattrasses |
? probably crocidolite |
LD | Mattresses | ||||
Poilite |
A family name for a range of asbestos cement products |
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Posts pillars and poles |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1935 to 60 |
AC |
Fencing posts etc |
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Pressure pipes |
12 to 15% chrysotile and amosite – between 1967 and 69 some crocidolite was intermittently used |
1961 to 98 |
AC |
Under ground water pipes |
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Promenade Tiles |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1936 to 86 |
AC |
Walkways on flat roofs |
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Pyramid Ceiling tiles |
32 to 35% chrysotile and amosite |
1964 to 70 |
LD |
Decorative ceiling tiles |
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Rainwater goods |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1927 to 85 |
AC |
Industrial & domestic gutters and down pipes |
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Rawlplastic |
? chrysotile and amosite |
? |
LD |
Wall plugging compound |
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Ribbed pattern flat sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1944 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheets |
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Ridge Ventilator |
? |
? |
AC |
Ridge ventilator |
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Rigid rubber floor tiles |
? chrysotile |
1932 to 39 |
? |
Flooring |
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River banking |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled sheeting 9mm thick for river banking |
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Romana |
? |
? |
AC |
? |
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Rough Cast flat sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1928 to 39 |
AC |
Flat sheet with aggregate finish |
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Screwfix |
? amosite and chrysotile |
? |
LD |
Wall plugging compound |
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Scum Boards and baffle boxes |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1957 to 7? |
AC |
For sewage over flows |
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Secret fix ceiling tiles |
32 to 35% chrysotile and amosite |
1967 to 70 |
LD |
Ceiling tiles |
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Semi compressed flat sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1920 to 85 |
AC |
General purpose flat sheet |
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Serval Asbestos felt |
75 to 96% chrysotile |
1928 to 39 |
felt |
Sarking underfelts and built up, plus fire resisting |
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Sewage and Drainage Pipes |
10 to 15% chrysotile -between 1967 and 69 some crocidolite was intermittently used. |
1961 to 99 |
AC |
Sewage and drainage water |
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Shadowcast Weatherboards |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1964 to 76 |
AC |
Vertical Cladding |
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Shadowall |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1964 to 70 |
AC |
Vertical cladding |
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Siluminite |
74 to 83% chrysotile |
1926 to ? |
? |
For transformers and switchgear |
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Sindanyo |
50% Chrysotile |
1926 to |
? |
Specialist insulation Arc resisting |
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Slagbestos |
Contains no asbestos |
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Soil pipes and fittings |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1927 to 71 |
AC |
Soil pipe mainly domestic |
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Spantiles |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1965 to 69 |
AC |
Roofing sheet |
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Speakers |
A trade name for a variety of AC products |
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Speakers 177/51 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Speakers 5″ |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Speakers 7″ |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Sprayed Limpet asbestos |
Up to 85% chrysotile and amosite |
1945 to 74 |
LD |
Fire protection, condensation control and sound absorption |
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Standard 3″ |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1915 to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Stipple glazed sheet |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1936 to 60 |
AC |
Decorative internal flat sheet |
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Striated Ceiling tiles |
32 to 35% chrysotile |
1967 to 70 |
LD |
Ceiling tiles |
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Super four |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Super six |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Super seven |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Super sixteen |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1936 to 39 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Suretex |
? |
? |
Paint |
Textured paint |
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T 3 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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T 4 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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T 6 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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TD 6 |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Thrutone |
A trade name used to indicate that a pigment had been added to an asbestos cement product |
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Tile Batten sheets |
? |
? |
AC |
Under tile sheet |
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Tinplate wipers |
80% chrysotile |
1937 to 61 |
? |
? |
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Trafford Tile |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1917 to 84 |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Trisomet |
Amosite & chrysotile |
To late 70s |
A composite product that contained Galbestos in its’ construction |
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Trofsec |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Troughing |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Turnall asbestos reinforced aluminium foil |
? |
? |
LD |
Insulation product of asbestos paper bonded to aluminium foil |
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Turnall |
A family trade name for a variety of asbestos containing products |
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Turnall Strip tile |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1945 to 50 |
AC |
Domestic roofing product |
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Turnabestos |
32 to 35% chrysotile and amosite |
1954 to 80 |
LD |
Fire protection insulation board |
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Twin twelve |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Universal |
A family name for a group of asbestos cement products |
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Univertical |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Urastone |
A trade name for a range of flue and flat sheets all Asbestos cement |
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Ventilators |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1930 to 75 |
AC |
Air extraction |
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Ventilation Ducts |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1930 to 75 |
AC |
Circular and rectangular for ventilation systems |
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Ventilation Ducts (made up) |
12 to 30% amosite or chrysotile |
? |
LD |
Made up on site either from asbestos cement or Asbestolux or Turnabestos boards |
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Vertile |
? |
? |
AC |
Vertical cladding product |
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Wallboard |
? |
? |
AC |
Flat sheet |
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Water Meter Chambers |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1947 to 74 |
AC |
Water meter chambers |
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Watford Tile |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing sheet |
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Weatherall slates |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1969 to 76 |
AC |
Roofing Slates |
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Weatherplank Weatherboards |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1967 to 69 |
AC |
Vertical cladding |
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Weave pattern flat sheets |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1960 to 68 |
AC |
Decorative flat sheets |
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Whaddon Tiles |
? |
? |
AC |
Profiled roofing product |
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Window Boxes |
? |
? |
AC |
Window boxes |
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Window cills |
10 to 15% chrysotile |
1963 to 72 |
AC |
Window cills |
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Wondertex |
? |
? |
Paint |
Textured Coating |
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Woodite |
? Chrysotile & Amosite |
? |
? |
Flat sheet material |