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Johns-Manville is an American corporation involved in manufacture of asbestos, insulation and roofing materials. The stock was included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from January 29, 1930 to August 27, 1982. It was replaced with American Express. In 2001 it was bought by Berkshire Hathaway. Since 2004, when Chairman & CEO Jerry Henry retired, Steve Hochhauser has been Chairman, President & CEO.

The company was founded as the H.W. Johns Manufacturing Company in New York in 1858, and was an early asbestos manufacturer in the United States.

The Manville Covering Company was founded in Wisconsin in 1885 by C. B. Manville. C. B. Manville's grandson was the much-married socialite Tommy Manville.

H.W. Johns and Manville merged in 1901 to form H.W. Johns-Manville, which changed to Johns-Manville in 1926.

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 chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1982, then the largest company in US history to do so.

The bankruptcy was resolved by the formation of the Manville Trust to pay asbestos tort claimants in an orderly fashion by giving the trust the lion's share of the equity in the company. The bankruptcy took over 5 years to process and resulted in extremely protracted litigation. The Manville Trust is still in operation today.

The Johns-Manville Corporation is how the borough of Manville, New Jersey obtained its name, as the company had a large plant in the borough.

The company's founder, H.W. Johns, died of asbestosis in 1898.

• Thompson, David; G. Marcus Cole (2007). "The Intersection of Bankruptcy and Mass Torts", in Robert Rammusen: Bankruptcy Stories. Foundation Press. ISBN 1599410184. 

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

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