Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas

The Flintkote Company's responses to the plaintiffs' master requests for admission and interrogatories for asbestos cases in all divisions of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, certified on October 10, 1985 by its Manager-Personnel, Clifford J. Carr. Flintkote says it "has not manufactured, sold or distributed insulation products containing asbestos within the normal and usual meaning of the term," and that the asbestos in its products "is encapsulated or 'bound into' the product." Exhibit A (pp. 28–35), dated April 16, 1984, lists about 100 Flintkote coatings, cements, mastics and adhesives with their periods of manufacture at East Rutherford, New Orleans, Chicago Heights and Vernon and their asbestos content, followed by its asbestos-cement board, pipe, siding and shingles.

What it shows

Flintkote gives no date for its knowledge of asbestos hazards; its answers tie that knowledge to the first suit against it, on April 24, 1972 (No. 57).

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No case is named, and there is no counsel's signature page or certificate of service; the date is that of the certification. Pages 2, 6, 10 and 13 have no text layer.