Transite - need a definition

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Author Message John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 198 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 10:23 am:    I'm trying to nail down the exact meaning of the term "Transite". I have always thought that it was a trade name that referred to corrugated asbestos-cement board used for siding in industrial facilities. However, I have recently heard it being used to describe residential asbestos siding. Can Transite be used to describe that type of material? Ralph Liebing Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 63 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 11:20 am:    Vaguely recall [from the '50s] "transite" as a material used for making pipe or ductwork [underfloor slab heating ducts for example], and also for siding. I think there was use as both industrial siding and residential, as at the time, it was considered as very economical product. It was brittle but still, as best I can remember, widely used mainly because of the low cost.I think it was made by Johns-Manville, and then fabricated into various usable forms. The name became the misnomer for many similar products over the years.Understand there is still a non-asbestos form, call "Transite HT". Stephen H. Falk Advanced Member Username: shfalk Post Number: 7 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 05:35 pm:    The material was extensively used in airport hanger and factory construction as well as for wall panels, fascias and soffits in institutional construction like schools. It has been refined and is available from U.S. Architectural Products "Plycem" for sheathing and exposed surfaces not decorative. There are other manufacturers of this type of product and it has a lot of uses.