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Cemesto - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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The article is about an old building material that was popular in the 1930s-1950s. It discusses the pro's of the building material and why it became popular but never actually discusses what caused it to fall out of fashion.

I'd be really interested to learn what came out that managed to beat it on the market and what specifically caused that to happen.

Realistically it probably boils down to money in the end anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"surfaced on both sides with asbestos cement." Asbestosis lawsuits started in the 1960s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah! That would definitely do it! Somehow my brain didn't connect those lol

It seems like the last big project was made in the early 50s though... Very good that it died out either way if it was being made with Asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

never discusses what caused it to fall out of fashion.

I opened the ad article, read the first few sentences and I have a wild guess as to why it "fell out of fashion".

"... surfaced on both sides with asbestos cement... "

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Someone else pointed this out as well. It does say that but at no point does it actually say that asbestos was dangerous or that asbestos laws happened or anything related to its decline at all.

If you didn't know about asbestos then you wouldn't know why this stopped being used.

I feel like that's an important part of the Cemesto history that wasn't mentioned in the article outside of a bit of a sentence at the start that requires prior knowledge.