Johns-Manville Corporation

Founded as the H.W. Johns Manufacturing Company in New York in 1858; an early asbestos manufacturer in the United States.

Industrialist Lewis H. Brown was president of the Johns-Manville Corporation in the 1930s.

The Canadian branch of the corporation was involved in the extremely violent Asbestos Strike in Canada in 1949.

The corporation also faced major class-action lawsuits in the 1980s based on asbestos-related injuries, and filed for bankrupty protection in 1982, then the largest country in US history to do so.

External links

• Johns-Manville Website
• About the class action suit in the Asbestos Hazards Handbook (London Hazards Centre)