Talk:Eternit

First trial to be more factual
I have tried to remove as much as possible of the advertising style for Eternit or for fibre cement. However, it can certainly still be continued. Although there is nothing bad to support the free enterprise and the open market, the initial tone of this page was inappropriate for an encyclopedic material requiring to be more neutral and factual. Wikification is also improved now: I removed the tag requesting more inner Wiki links. Cheers, Shinkolobwe (talk) 11:10, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Merge into Fiber cement
I do not see any reason why a brand name (such as Eternit or Fibro) should receive a special page. --Zeamays (talk) 03:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * A pretty notable brand in Italy, though. Massive problems of pollution and industrial diseases (in Casale Monferrato in particular) and subject to an on-going maxi-trial in Turin. Ian Spackman (talk) 04:08, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That info can still be included. The brand name would still be findable using a search. Mostly brand names don't warrant Wikipedia articles separate for the main article.  --Zeamays (talk) 16:24, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, given the current state of the article, I think that a merge and redirect may well be the right thing to do now. The principal problem in doing this, I think, is that the current article on fiber cement (or rather its redirect target, Fiber cement siding) is about an asbestos-free replacement for Eternit and Fibro: we would have to show that the term fiber cement is actually used to refer to the asbestos-based materials, and that all Eternit based products are properly called ‘siding’. A search through the interwikis for the current article does, however, throw up a fair number of notable companies with ‘Eternit’ as part of their name, and when one or more of those has been written up as an article Eternit should probably become a dab page. Ian Spackman (talk) 02:03, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll start working on a page for Eternit the global company, now that the trial in italy is completed. DAB then is a good idea.Saltwolf (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

The current version of the article is almost word by word the same as the article for Fiber cement; in its current form it does not deserve a separate article. --Lambiam 18:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

wrong fact - "prohibited in the 1970's"
The use of asbestos - which is a prominent component in the asbestos+cement mixture widely known as eternit - was gradually prohibited for building materials: European Union - 2002, Hungary - 2005. Nevertheless in the 2009 year the world asbestos mining produced 2 million tons (most of it in Russia and China). Canadian asbestos mines' final close down occured in 2011. Yes, certain uses and products became gradually abandoned starting from the 1970's, but large scale asbestos use in building materials did not stop untill the beginning of 21st century. As of 2014, according to this (http://magyarnarancs.hu/tudomany/halalos-szalirany-92825) article, asbestos use and trade is legal in the US. Harmful properties of asbestos first became widely publicized after 1924 death of Nellie Kershaw, and from the 1930's medical research proved asbestos unsuitable for use in populated areas. During the 1980's half of asbeestos trade and production enterprises closed down. 80.98.114.70 (talk) 12:35, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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weasel words
material description section last sentence: " It is primarily due to its function, performance and commercial value.[2]" is it a coomercial?? 89.134.199.32 (talk) 19:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC).

ok, so i be bold and delete this particular useless sentence which is void of information and makes unverifiable claims in weasel words. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 19:52, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

other common use
housing waste-water pipes connected to the public sever system were typically made from a concrete-like material called eternit, during the 1950's and probably also before that at least in hungary and probably in other countries in the region as well. it is probably the same material as described in the article.
 * more: while inside buildings water pipes (both incoming and out going) are typically made from lead during the mentioned period, the final (large diameter, rather horizontally layed, basement level pipe under the ground connecting the house to the public sever system under the street) section of the waste water plumbing was made from eternit.89.134.199.32 (talk) 20:12, 16 August 2018 (UTC)