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K8895DIA058 (d) Mead Paper Company (e) The friction paper, which was glued to a steel stamping, called a friction plate assembly, was light brown in color. The paper on the clutch plates contained special grooving. The friction paper was also applied to the transmission bands. (f) Borg-Wamer (g) Borg-Wamer answers that it's products were the subjectof numerous patents and such records are a matter of public record. (h) Borg-Wamer answers that its supplier of friction paper, Mead Paper Company, in 1983 advised Borg-Wamer of the removal of asbestos from its friction paper. (i) Borg-Wamer continues to manufacture automatictransmission friction plates and transmission bands. Manufacture of products that contained encapsulated asbestos was discontinued in approximately 1983. (j) Asbestos was used because of its high temperature tolerance and durability. Manual clutch assemblies: (a) Clutch assemblies may have contained facings supplied by various friction materials suppliers, believed to have contained chrysotile fibers. (b) Borg-Wamer suspects that the formulations of friction materials may have varied depending on the supplier of those materials. (c) If modifications to the manual transmission clutch facings were made, they were made by the various suppliers of the facings. (d) All . the friction materials incorporated in Borg-Warner's clutch assemblies were supplied to Borg-Wamer by other manufacturers, including Raybestos-Manhattan (Raymark), American Brake Shoe, Ausco, Gatke, Johns-Manville, National Friction Products, Russe, Standco, and H.K. Porter, Inc., Thermoid Division, Akebono America, Inc., Bendix Textar, and Amco Works. Borg-Wamer purchased such materials over approximately fifty-eight (58) years beginning in 1928. Borg-Wamer did not separately resell those friction materials under the Borg-Wamer name or trademark but the friction materials were used as components in Borg-Wamer's clutch products. (e) Clutch facings contained in the clutch assembly were solid form varying in color from gray to black to brown. (f) Borg-Wamer, Borg & Beck , Long & Rockford (g) Borg-Wamer answers that it's products were the subject ofnumerous patents