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LLC. Abex purchased The S.K. Wellman Company in 1963. To the best of current and
reasonably available information and belief, The S.K. Wellman Company did not manufacture or distribute asbestos-containing products prior to Abex's purchase of The S.K. Wellman Company. Further, to the best of current and reasonably available information and belief, following its purchase by Abex, The S.K. Wellman Company business may have sold asbestos-containing automotive friction products. Abex sold The S.K. Wellman Company in 1971.
In addition, there may be additional corporate acquisitions involving Abex which are potentially responsive to this interrogatory but due to the passage of time, the change of the nature of its business, and the change in personnel, Abex lacks current knowledge of any such acquisitions. Abex discontinued the manufacture and sale of asbestos-containing railroad friction products in 1977 and asbestos-containing automotive friction products in 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 period Abex manufactured and sold friction products with personal knowledge of the information contained in all the records and documents that might be responsive to this interrogatory. INTERROGATORY NO. 11: If the answer to Interrogatory No. 10 is "Yes", with respect to each such predecessor:
(a) State its full and correct name; (b) State its principal place of business; (c) State its State of Incorporation; (d) State its date and manner of acquisition by Defendant; (e) Whether this predecessor was, at any time, authorized to transact business in the
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