USES AND APPLICATIONS OF ASBESTOS

Flat and corrugated sheets, tiles, drainage and rainwater pipes, gutters, flues for boilers and ascots, high pressure water pipes, steam pipes, water tanks, wall ventilators, fire surrounds.

eg. Asbestolux, LDR, Marinite and Turnabestos

Cladding for walls, ceilings and structural steelworks. Acoustic and thermal insulation.

Fire retardation. Sometimes found in the form of shipboards.

Pre-formed sections and slabs or wet plastering. Note that asbestos ropes, tapes, corrugated papers, quilts, felts and blankets are also found lagging boilers, etc. In the past, woven asbestos quilts filled with loose asbestos were sometimes used for insulation of hot water cylinders, calorifeisrs, etc.

Fire protection to structural steelwork, thermal and acoustic insulation, condensation prevention.

Found anywhere a fireproof seal is needed eg. ovens, sections of system built dwellings, sealing holes in service ducts, joints to soil pipes ("PC4").

Mainly used to seal joints (eg. boilers, flues, chimneys, etc.) as a rot-free fire stop (eg. where pipes go through a wall) or between components in plant and machinery.

Fire blankets, fireproof clothing, oven gloves, safety curtains and blankets.

Electrical insulation, (eg. in switchgear), fireproof facings, heat reflective layers to boilers and electric storage heaters.

Mainly used for thermal insulation eg. steam pipes, industrial ovens, sheet metal ductwork in industrial heating systems, cylinder head gaskets, etc.

Brake linings (road and rail vehicles, lifts and other machinery). Clutch facings.

Produced as pellets which are then re-liquefied and used to make injection mouldings, especially in the motor industry. Also battery cases.

Also backing to PVC floor coverings - "Lino"