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Abex discontinued the manufacture and sale of asbestoscontaining 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 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. Lloyd Hamlm served as Abex's Medical Director between 1941 and 1961. Dr. Hamlm pubhshed an article m 1946 in which he referenced asbestosis. Dr Hamlm is deceased and Abex has no way to determine when, if ever, he or any other Abex official first received information responsive to this interrogatory.