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(g) Abex's asbestos-containing automotive
friction products contained approximately 25 to 70 percent
chrysotile asbestos only. Discovery and investigation is
ongoing. Abex expressly reserves the right to supplement this
answer.
(h) See Answer to Interrogatory No. 5(g).
(i) See Answer to Interrogatory No. 5(c).
Velvetouch:
(c) Abex never mined asbestos. Abex manufactured
and sold asbestos-containing automotive friction products from
approximately 1926 to 1987. Abex believes that this friction
product was manufactured from 1923 and its trademark was
withdrawn in 1970. Discovery and investigation is ongoing. Abex
expressly reserves the right to supplement this answer. In
addition, the existing business records and documents of Abex,
which number in excess of three million, are preserved in the
order in which they were found. There was never a central
corporate filing system of Abex documents and there is no Abex
employee who has personal knowledge of. all the information
contained in all the documents. Abex will respond to this interrogatory by making..available?for-inspection and copying .
relevant, responsive, non-privileged documents. These documents
will be made available, through Abex counsel at a mutually
convenient time and at a location conducive to production.
(d) Asbestos-containing automotive brake lining,
manufactured by Abex were shaped into curved, linear segments in
such dimensions as required by the specifications,
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