Flintkote in New Orleans: Fifty Years of Asbestos Exposure in Manufacturing
The Flintkote Company established its product line in Massachusetts for over 30 years before opening a plant in New Orleans in the late 1930s. Thus began forty years of asbestos exposure in manufacturing roofing products and floor tiles in NOLA. By 1963, Flintkote had 147 plants, including 21 international. Though they produced gypsum, paper products, …