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FILE NAME Kaiser Gypsum KG DATE 1986 DOC KG043 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Supplemental Responses to Interrogatories N PATRICK J. HAGAN ESQ EDWARD M. PRICE ESQ KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A Professional Corporation 200 Webster Street Oakland California 94607-3789 Telephone 415 465-5212 Attorneys for KAISER CEMENT KAISER GYPSUM Defendants CORPORATION and COMPANY INC 7 8 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATOEF CALIFORNIA 9 IN AND FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 10 DEPARTMENT FIVE 11 12 IN RE 13 , COMPLEX ASBESTOS LITIGATION 15 NO 828684 KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION AND , KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY INC.'S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFFS STANDARD INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANTS 16 17 PROPOUNDING PARTY Plaintiffs 4 18 RESPONDING PARTY 19 Defendants KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY INC and 20 21 22 223 24 25 26 ma~ 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET OAKLAND CA 94607-3789 SET Standard DATE . May 6 1986 COME NOW defendants KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION hereinafter KAISER CEMENT and KAISER COMPANY INC hereinafter KAISER GYPSUM and provide supplemental answers to the standard interrogatories propounded by plaintiffs as follows DATED May 6 1986 KINCAID CAUDLE & HUBERT GIANUNZIOCAUDLE By GIANUNZIO blond EDWARD M. PRICE CAUDLE Attorneys for KAISER CEMENT Defendants CORPORATION and KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY INC x. SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 6 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate herein their objections and response previously given to this interrogatory and 4 its subparts By way of further response Kaiser Cement states 5 that some of its business records may be located at its manu- 5 facturing plants located at Permanente and Cushenbury California However those records so located relate primarily to plant 8 operations and industrial relations matters rather than to sales 9 or other subjects relevant to asbestos litigation 10 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 b 11 i and ii The records of Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum 12 Company concerning the test or experimental marketing of its 13 containing products are incomplete so that these 14 defendants are unable to respond to this interrogatory with the A 15 specificity required However based on information presently 16 available these defendants state that in general their asbestos- 17 containing products were marketed on a test or experimental basis 18 for anywhere from a few months to a year before being marketed 19 generally Additionally some containing products of 20 these defendants underwent field testing prior to general 21 marketing Records presently available indicate that Kaiser 22 Gypsum's wallboard accessory products and possibly Kaiser Cement's 23 plastic cement and masonry cement underwent such field testing 24 prior to being marketed generally 25 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 26 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate herein their 27 ~~ 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF INCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET JAKLAND CA 94607-3789 | objections and response previously given to this interrogatory subpart By way of further response these defendants state that ae Exhibit the percentages of asbestos shown on A attached 2 hereto are percentages by weight as contained in the products 3 at the time of sale Those products intended to be mixed with sand 4 and water such as plastic cement masonry cement and powdered 5 wallboard accessory or texture paint products would have a 6 lower percentage of asbestos at the time of application which 7 would vary depending upon the quantity of sand and water mixed 8 in SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 10 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate herein their 11 response previously given to this interrogatory subpart By way 12 of further response these defendants state that the best source 13 of information concerning the physical appearance and nature of 14 their containing products is existing product brochures a. and other literature depicting the products and packaging 16 thereof Such documents are available for inspection and 17 copying at a mutually agreeable time at or near the corporate . 18 headquarters of these defendants in Oakland California 19| 20 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate herein their 21 objections previously given to this interrogatory subpart By way 22 of further response these defendants state that they presently 23 have no knowledge of any of their containing products 24 ever being on the U. S. Government's Qualified Products List 25 Further the best source of the information being sought in this 26 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET OAKLAND CA 94607-3789 subpart would be the United States Government SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 h Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate herein their 7" ay aa responses previously given to this interrogatory subpart By way of further response these defendants state that as a result of 3 their document retention programs information concerning the time 4 periods that raw asbestos fiber was supplied by the entities 5 identified herein is not available and these defendants cannot 6 respond to this subpart with the specificity required 7 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 8 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response pre- 9 viously given to this interrogatory subpart as follows 10 . Yes 11 i These answering defendants are unable to respond to this 12 subpart with the specificity required because most of their sales 13 records predating 1968 no longer exist or cannot be located and 14 as to those sales records which presently do exist a complete 15 review of them has not been performed by these defendants How- 16 ever on the basis of their partial review of existing sales 17 records as well as information obtained from former and present 18 employees these defendants state that their containing 19 products were primarily sold to contracting or construction 20 companies and to building materials dealers Such sales may also 21 have been made to manufacturing entities and to companies using 22 the products for their own construction projects These 23 defendants have no information whatsoever indicating that they 24 sold containing products to any shipyards 25 ii The inclusive dates that the containing 26 products of these defendants were generally marketed as well as 27 the trade name or brand name of each such containing J THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET JAKLAND CA 94607-3789 product sold by them are shown on Exhibit A attached hereto 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET OAKLAND CA 94607-3789 aac ame ewe which is a revised version of Exhibit A attached to these defendants initial responses to these interrogatories iii Yes Existing sales records of these defendants are located at 100 Webster Street Oakland California under the general custody of Cliff W. Rogers Manager Administrative Services Kaiser Cement Corporation 300 Lakeside Drive Oakland California Said records are in the physical custody of these defendants attorneys of record SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 10 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response pre- viously given to this interrogatory subpart as follows The existing sales records of these defendants are stored in approximately 600 Bekins boxes which are consist of invoices sales orders bills organized of lading by year and and other documents Sales orders are in numerical sequence by year The invoices are also arranged alphabetically by customer Records pertaining to sales of containing products are not separated from those of asbestos products See response to Interrogatory 10 iii for the location and custodian of these records Existing sales records of these defendants are available for inspection by plaintiffs counsel at a mutually agreeable time at 100 Webster Street Oakland California at plaintiffs expense SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 11 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response previously given to this interrogatory as follows To the extent that the purchasers of the containing products of these defendants may be deemed to be distributors 7 4 of such products these defendants have no knowledge or information that such purchasers were exclusive distributorships 3 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 13 A Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response pre- 5 viously given to this interrogatory by stating that neither Kaiser 6 Gypsum nor Kaiser Cement have any knowledge that they rebranded 7 containing products and materials imported manu- supplied 8 factured sold distributed and by another company 9 Both Kaiser Gypsum and Kaiser Cement are continuing their 10 investigation and discovery in this regard 11 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 15 A ~ 12 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response pre- . 13 viously given to this interrogatory as follows " 14 Yes Beginning in 1972 warning labels were placed on 15 containers of the containing products manufactured by 16 both Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum described on Exhibit A 17 attached hereto except Kaiser Gypsum Fire Type X x 18 Wallboard 19| 20 21 22 23 22 22 - 26 27 28 LAW OFFICES OF INCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET JAKLAND CA 94607-3789 415 465-5212 a Initially these labels were 4 x " in size Records currently available indicate that the labels had yellow back- grounds with red letters They were affixed to the package or container of the product by adhesive Later as new packaging and containers were purchased the labels were printed onto the outside of the package or container and are believed to have been the same color or colors as the container or the printing thereon The warning labels were prominently displayed on the side of each can or bag or product however these defendants records are not sufficient to enable them to describe aay the exact location of every warning label on each of their containing products Labels were not placed on the 3 products themselves since most of the products come in the 4 form of either powder or paste The warning label read as 5 follows Caution Contains asbestos fiber avoid breathing 6 dust breathing dust may cause serious bodily harm See Exhibit B attached to these defendants initial responses to 8 these interrogatories 9 b and c Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum incorporate 10 herein their responses previously given to these subparts 11 SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 19 12 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their prior response 13 to this interrogatory as follows 14 a On August 1 1952 Kaiser Cement purchased for cash 15 from Henry J. Kaiser Company the business and certain assets of 16 the Gypsum division of that company which engaged in the manu- 17 facture of wallboard and related gypsum products As part of 18 that acquisition Kaiser Cement acquired the manufacturing rights 19 for some joint compound and texture paint products which may have 20 contained small amounts of asbestos at the time of that 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF INCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET JAKLAND CA 94607-3789 94607-3789 JAKLAND | acquisition and contained asbestos for limited periods of time thereafter However the existing business records of Kaiser Cement are incomplete and insufficient to enable it to determine with certainty whether such products did contain asbestos at the time of the said acquisition or to provide the specific informa- tion requested in this interrogatory regarding such products The terms of purchase and sale agreement concerning said acquisition are described hereinabove Kaiser Cement will make a ot on @ 2) Ay 1 copy of the sales agreement with Henry J. Kaiser Company available for inspection by plaintiffs counsel at a mutually agreeable time and place The manufacturing facilities acquired as part of the purchase described herein consisted of two manufacturing plants located at Redwood City and Long Beach California SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER NO 22 Kaiser Cement and Kaiser Gypsum amend their response pre- 9 viously given to this interrogatory as follows 10 On the basis of these defendants partial review of their 11 existing sales records as well as information obtained from 12 present and former employees neither Kaiser Cement nor Kaiser 13 Gypsum have any knowledge of having sold shipped or distributed 14 any containing products to the General Services 15 Administration 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET OAKLAND CA 94607-3789 -8- 1 VERIFICATION 2 3 The undersigned says 4 I am an officer to wit Assistant Secretary of defendants 5 KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION and KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY INC herein 6 The foregoing document are true of my own knowledge 7 except as to the matters which are therein stated on my informa- 8 tion and belief and as to those matters I believe them to be 9 true 10 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is . 11 true and correct 12 Executed this 1446 day of May , 1986 , at 13 Oakland California 14 1414 DONNA ANDERSON 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2424 25 25 2626 _) 2828 THE LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET JAKLAND CA 94607-3789 C CC CC C N nw 1 2 . , : me . AdN x 4 a PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL C.C.P. 1013a 2015.5 3 I the undersigned declare 4 That I am employed in the City of Oakland County of Alameda State of California that I am over the age of 18 years and 5 not a party to the within cause that my business address is 200 Webster Street 2nd Floor Oakland California 94607-3789 6 _ 15th That on the day of May , 1986 7 I served the within KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION AND KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY INC.'S 9 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFFS STANDARD INTERROGATORIES TO DEFENDANTS 1110 1212 13 13 on the parties in said cause by placing a true copy of each 14 document enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage thereon 14 fully prepaid in the United States mail at Oakland California SE addressed as follows 15 16 SEE ATTACHED MAILING LIST SE 117 18 18 EE 19 2020 21 22 23 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct 24 Executed at Oakland California this 15th day of May 22 , 1986 26 27 28 LAW OFFICES OF KINCAID GIANUNZIO GIANUNZIO CAUDLE & HUBERT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 200 WEBSTER STREET OAKLAND CA 94607-3789 LH 415 465-5212 PAM UNDERKOFFLER Declarant Underkett ? EMONT COMPANY Wild & Jeffrey INC 1700 Montgomery Street San Francisco CA 94111 COMBUSTION ENGINEERING DEVCON CORP Knox Ricksen et One Kaiser Plaza Oakland CA 94612 al 850 GATKE CORPORATION Bennett Samuelson 332 - 19th Street Oakland CA 94612 et al GENERAL DYNAMICS Pelavin Norberg et al 2 Embarcadero Center Suite 2360 San Francisco CA 94111 M. H. DETRICK CO./EMPIRE CO./EMPIRE ACE INSULATION STEV Carroll Burdick et al One Ecker Bldg Ecker & Stevenson Ecker Francisco Stevenson Street MAREMONT CORPORATION Armour St. 505 Sansome John et Street al San Francisco CA 94111 CROWN CORK & SEAL Mark H. Rosenthal Esq 3 Embarcadero Center Suite 670 San Francisco CA 94111 EASTBAY GASKET Whitehorn & Ravazzini 2150 Franklin Street Suite 571 Oakland CA 94612 BERTITE CORP 43Addick Candland & Conti Danville Blvd. 23100 P. O. Box 1057 Alamo CA 94507 GENERAL MOTORS Parichan Renberg et 2350 West Shaw 23154 Fresno CA 93794 al GEORGIA PACIFIC CORP Marron Reid & Sheehy 601 California Street 12th Floor San Francisco CA 94108 INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Harrington Foxx et al 611 W. Sixth Street 9th Floor Los Angeles CA 90017 MEDLLOYD LYNEN B.V./CSE LAND Graham & James One Maritime Plaza 300 | San Francisco CA 94111 NICOLET St. 235 San Clair Zappettini E Montgomery 635 Francisco CA 94104 CORNING FIBERGLAS Popelka Allard et al One Almaden Blvd. 800 San Jose CA 95115 FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER BONDEX INTERNATIONAL Ericksen Arbuthnot et al Pier 1-1 Embarcadero San Francisco CA 94111 JANOS INDUSTRIAL INSULATION Meadows Dorris et al 425 California 170 San Francisco CA 94104 PPG INDUSTRIES Bishop Barry 465 California 11th Floor San Francisco Howe et Street CA 94104 FORD MOTOR COMPANY Barfield Barfield et al One California Street Suite 3125 San Francisco CA 94111 CRANE HOUDAILLE Mackenroth Seley et 2221 Hurley Way P. O. Box 255800 Sacramento CA 95825 INC al PLANT INSULATION CO Martin Ryan et One Kaiser Plaza al Oakland CA 94612 WHEELER CORP James E. Martin Esq 450 Sansome Street . Suite 1310 San Francisco CA 94111 RUBEROID McCutchen Doyle et al : barcadero Center rancisco CA 9411l KAISER ALUMINUM GEORGIA PACIFIC STEEL BECHTEL Thelen Marrin et al 2 Embarcadero Center San Francisco CA 94111 LAKE ASBESTOS & ASARCO Pettit & Martin 101 California Street San Francisco CA 94111 RAYMARK INDUSTRIES Fisher & Hurst 4 Embarcadero Center 25th Floor San Francisco CA 94111 RICH Tolpegin Imai 235 Montgomery San Francisco & Tadlock St. 95 CA 94104 GARLOCK INDUSTRIES Glaspy Elliott et al 201 N. Civic Dr. 245 a ROCK WOOL MANUFACTURING Branson Fitzgerald et al 500 Allerton Street a re RYDER INDUSTRIES O'Connor P. O. Box Cohn 26690 et al oN . o ao. SH WARNER McGlynn McLorg et al 350 Montgomery St. 300 San Francisco CA 94133 SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP Corrigan & Whitney One Market Plaza 3200 San Francisco CA 94105 | Halley Cornell & Lynch 50 California Street 25th Floor San Francisco CA 94111 BENJAMIN FOSTER CO Sheppard Mullin et al 4 Embarcadero Center 17th Floor San Francisco CA 94111 McCarthy Johnson & Miller 22 Second St. 7th Floor San Francisco CA 94105 PHILLIPS Debevec Jackson et 479 Mason St. 3325 Vacaville CA 95688 al SYNKOLOID Branson Fitzgerald et 500 Allerton Street Redwood City CA 94063 al Brayton McQuaid Bedford & P. O. Box 2109 BETHLEHEM STEEL Parrish & Moriarty Novato CA 94948 1750 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco CA 94109 THIOKOL CORPORATION Stemple & Boyajian Bledsoe Cathcart et al : 1526 Tennessee Street 550 California 232828 Vallejo CA 94590 San Francisco CA 94108 H DE INSULATION CO Ta Wilshire E. Cusik Esq 120 Wilshire Blvd. Jos Angeles CA 90010 Herron & Herron 600 Montgomery Street 33rd Floor San Francisco CA 94111 J.S. GENERAL VENEER AMERICAN HUXLEY ASBESTOS TEXTILE- i ow Ball & Lynch | 501 California 21st Floor San Francisco 94121 Brown & Finney ! One Maritime Plaza 1500 Alcoa Bldg an Francisco CA 94111 ABEX Sullivan Roche & 220 Bush Street San Francisco CA Johnson 94104 AMATEX CORP./KEASBY & MATTISON CO Stevens & Drummond 1910 Olympic Blvd. 130 Walnut Creek CA 94596 Carlson & Robinson .709 Webster Street Oakland CA 94612 ASBESTOS CORPORATION JOHNSON BROTHERS Jedeikin Connor & Green 445 Washington Street San Francisco CA 94111 Cartwright Sucherman etal California ia rancisco oy adh St. 2600 CA 94111 BABCOCK & WILCOX Anderson Galloway et al 2201 Broadway 319 Oakland CA 94612 Tack K. Clapper Esq .00 Shoreline Highway Bldg B Suite 300 Hill Valley Ma O BENDIX CORPORATION Gordon & Rees 601 Montgomery BIGELOW CO Cooper White & Cooper 101 California Street 16th Floor San Francisco CA 94111 CARLISLE CORP./HAMILTON CORP./HAMILTON MATERIALS Archer & McComas P. O. Box 8035 Walnut Creek CA 94596 CASSIAR MINING CORP BRINCO MINING LIMITED Stark Stewart et al 1999 Harrison St. 1300 Oakland CA 94612 UNION CARBIDE Gibson Dunn & Crutcher One Almaden Blvd. 1000 San Jose CA 95115 UNIROYAL UNIROYAL McNamara Houston P. O. Box 5288 et al Walnut Creek CA 94596 WAGNER EDISON ELECTRIC GRAW Ream Train et al 755 Page Mill Place Palo Alto CA 94304 3131 WESTERN MAC ARTHUR Hardin Cook et al One Kaiser Plaza 2300 V. ed ZONOLITE Clapp Moroney et al 505 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto CA 94301 EAR SIEGLER SOUTHERN CHRYSLER Crosby Heafey et al .939 Harrison Street Oakland CA 94612 ILLINOIS lorgenstein Ladd .01 Market Street et al 5th Floor San Francisco CA 94111 ee De ee ee Pe ne ct ites on Se o suelo LIST OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING AL Manufactured by KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY IN PRODUCT NAME PURPOSE OF PRODUCT DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT COMPOSITION % ASBESTOS Approx ) Joint and Topping Compounds Kaiser Gypsum Joint Compound Dry Powder Kaiser Gypsum Finishing Topping Compound Kaiser Gypsum Day Joint Compound Kaiser Gypsum ThreePurpose Compound Kaiser Gypsum Mix Joint Compound Kaiser Gypsum Mix Finishing Topping Compound t Kaiser Gypsum Mix Dual } Purpose Joint Compound Used to fill gypsum board joints embed joint reinforcing tape finish joints and to cover and finish nailheads and metal cornerbead White to white powder Packaged and sold in sacks of 10 and 25 lbs and in 5 and 18 lb. boxes Primarily finely ground materials including casein clay talcs limestone and mica The asbestos used in this product was chrysotile Usetdo top and finish " gypsum board joints Used to fill gypsum board joints embed joint reinforcing tape finish joints and to cover and finish nailhead and metal cornerbead Used to tape top and finish gypsum board joints nailheads and , metal cornerbead Used to fill gypsum White to white " board joints embed or light buff joint reinforcing colored paste tape finish joints and to cover and finish nailheads and corner Packaged and sold in buckets ranging from 12 to 62 lbs and in cartons of 5 to 50 lbs Used to top and finish " gypsum board joints Used to fill gypsum " board joints embed joint reinforcing tape finish joints and to cover and finish nailheads and metal cornerbead 6.8-10.4 3.7-11 3.3-3.4 4.8-4.9 1.5-6 0.9-2 1.5-6 PRODUCT NAME Texture Paints Kaiser Gypaum Cover- Tex Wall Texture PURPOSE OF PRODUCT DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT COMPOSITION % ASBESTOS Approx) Used to produce tex- White to white Primarily casein lime- 4-8 ture effects over powder Packaged stone and mica The gypsum wallboard and sold in lb asbestos used in this surfaces sacks product was chrysotile . fo Kaiser Gypsum Spray 3'sCeiling Texture Used to produce tex- ture over gypsum White powder with polystyrene aggre- wallboard or interior gate Packaged concrete ceilings and sold in 32-1b Backs 1.3-6.8 Ceiling Board S 7 Kaiser Gypsum Mineral Used for acoustical 1/2 or 5/8 thick Primarily mineral wool 1.6 Fibreboard - UL Fire- ceiling tile and lay- by 12 or 24 wide and various wood fibers Rated Underwriters in board and partition by 12 24 or 48 clays and starch The Laboratories Inc. deadening board long sheets with asbestos used in this design face side white product was chrysotile or colored and with perforated or : fissured design for acoustical treatment Packaged and sold in boxes of various quantities \ 2 lboard Kaiser Gypsum Fire Type X Wallboard - Used for interior walls and ceilings to provide fire resistance 1/2 or 5/8 thick by 4 wide by 8 or 12 long sheets covered with grey or manila colored Primarily gypsum plus additives of glass fiber paper fiber and vermiculite The vermiculite contained two 100ths of % tremolite 0.02 paper Two sheets a type of asbestos which were bound together was considered an impurity for purposes of sale and was totally encapsulated in the vermiculite B 1 (1) The information in the Years Containing Asbestos column pertains to the company as a whole - the individual plants 1 Where Manufactured colum did not necessarily manufacture each product during all of the stated years Similarly the the Region of Distribution column did not necessarily correspond to all of the stated years For example the Jackso p<lants were not built until 1964 and 1965 respectively thus distribution of products on the east coast did not comme -. after the plants were completed 5/80 LIST OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING ASBESTOS Manufactured by KAISER CEMENT CORPORATIO1N PRODUCT NAME PURPOSE OF PRODUCT DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT COMPOSITION % ASBESTOS Approx) Kaiser Permanente Plastic Gun Cement wt" Ler Permanente Plastic Cement Hand Kaiser Permanente Masonry Cement Used to make stucco for the exterior of houses and other buildings applied by gun with a plaster ing machine Grey colored powder Packaged and sold in sacks of varying sizes and also in bulk Approximately 96 portland cement plus plasticizing and entraining agents The asbestos used in this product was chrysotile 2-5 3 Used to make stucco for the exterior of houses and other buildings applied manually with a trowel 1-5 Perm 3 % Cush ) 3 Used in masonry mortar in building construc- tion Grey colored powder Packaged and sold in sacks of varying sizes Not sold in bulk : . Combination of portland cement entraining additives and supplementary materials selected for their ability to impart workability plasticity and water retention The as- bestos used in this pro- duct was chrysotile 0.4 3 1 Kaiser Cement Corporation was known as Permanente Cement Company from 1939-64 and as Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corporation fro {1 frm 2 2 information in the Years Containing Asbestos column pertains to the company as a whole - the individual plants liste Where Manufactured column did not necessarily manufacture each product during all of the stated years Similarly the are the Region of Distribution column did not necessarily correspond to all of the stated years 3 Contractors typically mixed these products with three to five parts by weight of sand so the % asbestos was less than % in actually applied 5/86 DMA mt 7192L