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American Brake Materials . Brakeblok................................. .. .. American Brakeblok..................................... Abex .................................. .... Brake Shoe ............................................ Esline ........................................................... Stopper ............................ . .. American Eagle................................... Crossing Guard .................... Protector.......................................................... 121 Super Brakes ................ Velvetouch Orgarnk 1930 1936 1938 1941 1943 1965 1966 1974 1975 1975 1975 Abex manufactured and sold asbestos-contaimng railroad friction products under the trade name "Comet." Abex manufactured and sold asbestos-containing railroad friction products from approximately 1957 to 1977. ANSWER TO INTERROGATORY NO. 20 SUBPART (cl: Abex discontinued the manufacture and sale of asbestos-containing 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 dnectors 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. The available information, from which Abex would prepare a response to this interrogatory, is contained m files and records maintained by Abex. To prepare a response to this interrogatory would necessitate the preparation or the making of a compilation, abstract, audit, or summary of or from these files and records No such compilation, abstract, audit, or summary presently exists The burden and expense of preparing or making such a compilation, abstract, -51-