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Facing asbestos lawsuits, paper giant launched research program

2013-10-21 18:25:17| Paper - Topix.net

In the spring of 2005, Georgia-Pacific Corp. found itself facing nearly $1 billion in liability from a product it hadn't made in nearly three decades: a putty-like building material, known as joint compound, containing the cancer-causing mineral asbestos.

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