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Audited Intelligent Maintenance Limited ACM Product Chart |
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Product Type |
Use / Application (Where to look out for it) |
Approx. % of asbestos |
Loose |
Mattresses/quilts for fire stopping or sound insulation |
100 |
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Sprayed coating |
Dry or wet applied, anti-condensation or acoustic insulation, structural fire protection |
55-85 |
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Thermal insulation Lagging, pre-formed sections. Tapes, ropes, paper, felting, blankets |
Of pipes, boilers, pressure vessels, calorifiers |
6-85 |
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Asbestos boards |
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Millboard |
Fire protection, heat and electrical insulation |
67-97 |
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Insulating board |
Fire breaks, infill panels, partitions, ceilings, ceiling tiles, linings to roofs and walls, external canopies and porch linings |
16-40 |
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Paper, felt, cardboard, electrical and heat insulation |
Reinforcement and linings of other products |
100 |
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Textiles |
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Ropes and yarns |
Jointing and packing, boiler, oven and flue seating – plaited tubing in electric cable |
100 |
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Cloth |
Fire blankets, mattresses, curtains, gloves |
100 |
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Gaskets and washers |
Hot water boilers to industrial power and chemical plant |
90 |
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Strings |
Seals to hot water radiators |
100 |
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Friction products |
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Rein-based materials |
Brakes and clutch plates in machinery and lifts |
30-70 |
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Drive and conveyor belts |
Engines and conveyors |
30-70 |
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Cement products |
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Profiled sheets |
Roofs, wail cladding, permanent shuttering |
10-15 |
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Semi-compressed flat sheet and partition board |
Bath panels, soffits, walls, ceiling linings, weather boarding, composite panels for fire protection or as base for decorative facings |
10-25 |
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Fully compressed flat sheet for slates, tiles, board |
Worktops, imitation roof slates |
10-15 |
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Pre-formed moulded and extruded products |
Troughs and conduits, cisterns and tanks, drain pipes, flues, rainwater goods, windowsills and reveals, fascias, soffits, ducts, copings, promenade tiles and early imitation slates |
10-15 |
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Other encapsulated materials |
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Textured coatings |
Decorative coatings on walls and ceilings |
3-5 |
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Bitumen products |
Early forms of roofing felt, gutter linings and flashings, DPC, mastic and adhesives for floor tiles and wall coverings |
100 (in bitumen matrix) |
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Flooring |
Thermoplastic floor tiles PVC vinyl floor tiles and unbacked sheet Asbestos paper-backing to PVC floor tiles |
25 7 100 |
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Reinforced plastic and resin composites |
Toilet cisterns, seats, banisters |
1-10 |
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Other |
Asbestos is such a versatile material that not all of its uses are known. It is sometimes found in obscure, unexpected places. |
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