North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (1994)

North American Refractories Company (NARCO) answered a master set of interrogatories and requests for production from Baron & Budd in In re Asbestos Litigation in the District Court of Bexar County, Texas. Its lawyers, Powers & Frost of Houston, certified service on October 25, 1994; the month is handwritten and reads "Oct". A later "Plaintiff's Exhibit NAR-10" sticker is on the first page. The answers run to PDF p. 35. Exhibit A, the product chart, is p. 36. Exhibit B (pp. 37–50) lists expert witnesses, Exhibit C (pp. 51–54) lists people with knowledge, and Exhibit D (pp. 55–71) lists NARCO's trial exhibits, mostly medical and scientific articles.

Exhibit A lists 24 products by plant (Curwensville, Farber, Mt. Union, Womelsdorf and Caledonia), with the dates asbestos was used in each and its percentage, mostly 1% to 2%. AEROGUN is listed at 10%, NARCOLITE at 2% from 1961, and NARCOCRETE TROWEL at 2% from 1963 to 1977. NARCO said all of them used chrysotile, and all but the metalclad brick NARMAG 60 DBRC were gunning mixes or castables. It said it sold Eagle-Picher's Super 66 and One-Cote as Stazon and Unicote until 1971, and in 1964 agreed to asbestos warning labels on them. It also said it distributed a Kurosaki slide gate refractory in 1982–83 whose ceramic mat was 4.5–5% asbestos. In the answers, NARCO said it bought chrysotile from Nicolet and Johns-Manville and that heat turned the asbestos in its products into forsterite.

Printed page 28 (Interrogatories 49–52) is missing from the scan.