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Industries Company May 13,^1980 ' Priorities Memorandum J. J. Brown J. J. Lukas / 0^S' Please consider this an amendment to my memo of May 12th. Under a non-asbestos, non-metallic block, please amend to include the following statement: These numbers are predicated for the years 1983-1985 on the fact that there will be government (state or federal) legislation mandating non-asbestos materials. Per our discussion May 12th, it will be relatively easy to obtain non-asbestos approvals from brajseu-roanufacturer^ such as Rockwell and Eaton. However,.-iir'order to sell this^"\. o--thre^OEMs_~with the exception of Mack Corporation, evidence must be presented to cost justify the 30% premiun/ e--are requesting for__rip.nrasbes.tos materials^^'OEMs such as White and Ford Motor Company will'"not "Suy non-asbestos materials on the moral issue of non-asbestos versus asbestos, ut only if the government mandated them to do so or if the $0% premium could be justified based on longer lining life, drum life, etc. -- of this ~d.a...t.er,(......r EestIn^justifies~tKg~~c-laim that the cost of operation is in direct relationship to\ the premium being charged for non-asbestos materials.__y uJf- AFSchmaltz/file ,9)0 , // ' . t 'r\ i L c yi-n /` ' Joh . ,i-cw- < ZU C-& - /f c c- ;xz^rs SPNY 005362