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Abex discontinued the manufacture and sale of asbestos-containing friction products m 1987 and no longer operates any friction product manufacturing facilities There are no current Abex employees, officers who worked for Abex, or directors who sat on its Board during the penod Abex manufactured and sold friction products with personal knowledge of the information contained m all the records and documents that might be responsive to this interrogatory Subject to and without waiving these objections, and insofar as it understands this interrogatory, Abex Corporation, Pneumo Abex Corporation's predecessor, as defined herein, was incorporated as the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company in New Jersey in 1902, and was reincorporated as that company in 1916 in Delaware. In 1926, the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company caused to be incorporated a New York corporation named American Brake Materials Corporation. In 1933, American Brake Materials Corporation changed its name to American Brakeblok Corporation. In 1937, American Brakeblok Corporation merged with the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company, and was thereafter operated as the American Brakeblok Division of that company In 1943, the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company changed its name to the American Brake Shoe Company. In 1966, the American Brake Shoe Company changed its name to Abex Corporation. In 1968, Abex Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois Central Industries, Inc. Illinois Central Industries, Inc. later changed its name to 1C Industries, Inc. Abex later became a wholly owned subsidiary of 1C Products Company, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of 1C Industries, Inc. (1C Industries, Inc. changed its -31-