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Title: Asbestos Substitutes
Author: Karen Nichols
Source: American Gas Association 1991
Year Published: 1991
Abstract: Venture Products has been in the gasket manufacturing business for a little more than 10 years, and we have been involved in non-asbestos gasketing for approximately 8 years. One of our major accounts went to a non-asbestos program system-wide in 1984, so we got in on the ground floor, so to speak, insofar as non-asbestos applications are concerned. Before I get into the comparisons of materials, I would like to point out that in our opinion compressed asbestos is possibly the best allaround gasket material offered for use on engine/compressor applications. Compressed asbestos is tough, durable, has good compressive strength, and can operate continuously at elevated temperatures. None of the currently available non-asbestos substitutes can make this claim. Unfortunately, compressed asbestos was lumped into the free asbestos controversy, and it will no longer be commercially available for gasketing after 1993. Venture Products Company is discontinuing the marketing of asbestos at the end of this year.

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