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.

Faced major class-action lawsuits in the 1980s based on asbestos-related injuries.





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