R/M International (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.) plant at Ballincollig, County Cork

R/M International, part of Raybestos-Manhattan, planned a brake-pad plant at Ballincollig, near Cork, in the Republic of Ireland.³ In January 1976, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the R/M board had approved "an $8-million project including a 51,000-square-foot plant which will be built at Ballincollig, near Cork," able to make "10-million disc brake pads annually" for export to the European Economic Community, and "expected to be in operation by late Spring 1977."³

In April 1977, a company report carried in Asbestos said the new plant at Cork "is nearing completion and should be in operation during the second quarter of this year," with capacity for "ten-million disc brake pads" a year.²

The journal next mentioned the plant in March 1981: "R/M closed its $8-million asbestos manufacturing plant at Cork, Ireland, November 16, 1980," citing "the depressed automotive industry in the U.S. and the consequent drop in orders for disc brake pads."¹

Location

What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Other names

Documents call this plant “plant which will be built at Ballincollig, near Cork”, “new manufacturing plant at Cork”, “$8-million asbestos manufacturing plant at Cork, Ireland”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1981, March 1981 (March 1, 1981), p. 36.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, April 1977 (April 1, 1977), p. 39.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, January 1976 (January 1, 1976), p. 32.