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1 According to Eternit, medical care is costing the company US$270 per person per month.

Published by MAC on 2005-12-10

1 According to Eternit, medical care is costing the company US$270 per person per month.

2 Italians who worked at Eternit asbestos factories in Switzerland and contracted asbestos-related diseases when they returned to Italy are also seeking compensation.

3 These mines were operational from 1960 until 1981. Eternit was South African's third largest crocidolite miner after Cape PLC and Gencor. Its two crocidolite mining subsidiaries were Kuruman Cape Blue Asbestos (KCB) and Danielskuil Cape Blue Asbestos (DCBA).

4 Eternit's subsidiary, Everite, was South Africa's largest asbestos cement producer from the 1940s until the early 1990s.

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