Companies Linked to Asbestos Exposure

From the Industrial Revolution through the 1980s, many companies used asbestos in manufacturing without significant regulation. This section lists many of those asbestos companies.

The tragedy surrounding the asbestos industry in the United States is that a vast majority of the harm it caused was entirely preventable. As early as the first century, asbestos exposure was suspected to cause health problems.

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Companies Involved in the Sale, Manufacturing and Use of Asbestos 

The following is a partial list of companies that sold asbestos, manufactured products containing asbestos, or designed products that required the use of asbestos:

• A.O. Smith
• A.P. Green Industries, Inc.
• A.T. Callas Co.
• A.W. Chesterton Company
• Abex Corporation
• Aerojet General
• AGCO Corp.
• Airco, Inc.
• Allied-Signal, Inc.
• Allis Chalmers
• Amchem Products, Inc.
• American BrakeBlok
• American Optical
• American Standard
• Anchor Packing Company
• Armstrong Contracting & Supply ("AC&S")
• Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
• Arvinmeritor, Inc.
• ASARCO, Inc.
• Asbestos Corporation, Ltd. (“ACL”)
• Asten-Hill
• Atlas Turner / Atlas Asbestos
• Aurora Pump
• Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd.
• Bendix
• Benjamin Foster Company
• Boeing
• Boise Cascade Corp.
• Babcock & Wilcox
• Bird & Son
• Bondex International
• Borg-Warner Corporation / Burns International Services Corp.
• Bridgestone Firestone
• Buffalo Pumps, Inc.
• Calaveras Asbestos, Ltd.
• Capco Pipe Company, Inc.
• Carlisle / Motion Control
• Caterpillar
• Celotex Corporation
• Certainteed Corporation
• Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
• Chrysler
• CleaverBrooks
• Combustion Engineering
• Congoleum Corporation
• Continental Teves
• Cooper Industries
• Crane Co.
• Crown, Cork & Seal Company
• Daimler Chrysler, Inc.
• Dana Corporation
• DB Riley
• Deere & Co.
• Deleval
• Domco Products
• Dow Chemical Co.
• Dowman Products
• Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.
• Eaton Corp.
• Fibreboard Corporation
• Flexitallic Gasket Company
• Flintkote
• Ford Motor Company
• Forty-Eight Insulations
• Foster Wheeler
• GAF-Ruberoid
• Gardner Denver
• Garlock, Inc.
• General Electric Company
• General Motors
• General Refractories Company
• Genuine Parts Co. / NAPA
• Georgia Pacific Corporation
• Gould Pumps, Inc.
• Hamilton Materials
• Harbison-Walker Refractories Company
• Hill Brothers Chemical Company
• Honeywell International, Inc.
• H.K. Porter Company
• Industrial Holdings Corp.
• Ingersoll-Rand
• International Paper
• John Crane
• Johns-Manville Corp.
• Joy Machinery Co.
• Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation
• Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.
• Keene Corporation
• Kelly-Moore Paint Company
• Kelsey-Hayes Co. / Fruehauf
• Kentile Flors, Inc.
• Kimberly-Clark Corp.
• Lincoln Electric Co.
• Lorillard Tobacco Corp. / Kent
• Lucent Technologies
• Mack Trucks, Inc.
• Maremont Corp.
• Marley Cooling Tower Co.
• Mead Westvaco Corp.
• M.H. Detrick Company
• National Gypsum Company
• Nicolet (Keasby-Mattison)
• North American Refractories Company
• Northrup Grumman
• Owens-Corning Fibreglas Corporation
• Owens-Illinois, Inc.
• Paccar
• Peerless Industries, Inc.
• Phelps Dodge
• Philip Carey Corporation (now Rapid American Corporation)
• Pittsburgh Corning Corporation
• Pneumo Abex Corporation
• Proko Industries, Inc.
• Quigley Company, Inc.
• Raybestos Manhattan / Raybestos Industries, Inc. / Raybestos Corporation
• Raytheon
• Reynolds Metals Co. / Atlantic Asphalt & Asbestos Co.
• Riley Stoker Corporation
• Rockbestos Product Corporation
• Rockwell
• Rock Wool Manufacturing Company
• Sager Corp.
• SCAPA Dryer Fabrics, Inc.
• Sepco Corporation
• Sherwin Williams Co.
• Spicer
• Synkoloid
• T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition
• Turner & Newall
• Unarco Industries
• Union Carbide Corporation
• Uniroyal Holding, Inc. (Asbeston)
• U.S. Gypsum Company
• U.S. Steel Corporation
• Wagner Electric Corporation
• Weil-McClain
• Western Auto Supply Co.
• Westvaco
• Weyerhaeuser
• W.R. Grace & Co.
• Western Electric
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation

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