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ABEX CORPORATION
Summary of Interrogatories: Kane v. Johns-Manville Coro., et al.
Case No. C 258 940 Superior Court of the State of California
County of Los Angeles
1916
American Brake Shoe and Foundry Co. Incorporated in Delaware in 1916
1926
American Brake Materials Corp. Incorporated by American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.
1933
American Brake Materials Corp. Changed name to American Brakeblok Corp.
1937
American Brakeblok Corp. merges with American Brake Shoe and Foundry Co. and became a division of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.
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American Brake & Shoe Foundry Co. changed name to American Brake Shoe Company
1966
American Brake Shoe Company changed name to ABEX Corp.
1965
Abex International, S.A., incorporated in Switzerland; corporate headquarters in Geneva.
Abex manufactured products containing asbestos fibers:
From 1926 to 1927 in Lancaster, New York From 1926 to 1959 in Detroit, Michigan - From 1947 to Present in Winchester, Virginia From 1957 to 1977 in Chicago, Illinois (railroad) From 1974 to Present in Salisbury, North Carolina
Asbestos purchased from:
Asbestos Corp., Ltd. Thetford Mines Quebec, CAnada
Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd. Thetford Mines Quebec, Canada
Lake Asbestos Black Lake Quebec, Canada
Johns-Manville Corp. Quebec, Canada
Vermont Asbestos Group, Inc. Hyde Park, Vermont