Armstrong Historical Product & Company Library
Recognize Armstrong Cork, Armstrong World Industries and Armstrong Contracting & Supply through products, work, places and changing company names.
Explore the history
Armstrong Historical Product & Company Library
Recognize Armstrong Cork, Armstrong World Industries and Armstrong Contracting & Supply through products, work, places and changing company names.
Explore history →Armstrong: Company and Product Timeline
Trace the changing company names and the decades associated with specific insulation and flooring products.
Explore history →Nonpareil High Pressure Covering, Block and Cement
An early Armstrong high-temperature insulation family: names, forms and work processes.
Explore history →L.T. Cork Covering: Construction and Recognition
A distinctive wrap-around cork insulation with a time-limited asbestos-paper construction.
Explore history →Armaspray, Limpet and Spray Insulation
Understand why a spray insulation name, an installer and the original manufacturer may not be the same.
Explore history →Armstrong Historical Flooring: Tile, Sheet Vinyl and Backing
Flooring patterns, room layouts and renovation work can be powerful memory cues.
Explore history →Armstrong Contracting and ACandS: Crews, Jobs and Products
Separate the contractor who installed insulation from the company that made the material.
Explore history →Armstrong Original Documents and Historical Records
Read primary records, company responses, patents and court decisions underlying the Armstrong historical research.
Explore history →A company with several distinct histories
Armstrong began in cork products and became associated with cork insulation, resilient flooring, and industrial insulation contracting. A remembered Armstrong name might refer to a product Armstrong made, a product its installers handled, or work performed by a related contracting business. These are different histories.
What might you remember?
Cork pipe insulation in a refrigeration room; wedge-shaped segments wrapped around a cold pipe; floor tile or sheet flooring in a building renovation; spray insulation on industrial equipment; an Armstrong contracting crew; or a carton bearing a product name. The setting and decade help narrow the question.
A useful distinction
ArmaFlex flexible foam insulation was introduced in 1954 and should not be assumed to contain asbestos merely because other historical Armstrong products did. Product formulation and dates matter.
Original historical records
Read the underlying product responses, patents, government records and court decisions with dates and source types clearly identified.
Start with what you remember
Remember a product, a room, a crew, an old carton or a period of work? Those details can guide a historical investigation.