Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied June 16, 1994.
POSNER, Chief Judge.
In 1963 W.R. Grace & Company became the manufacturer of "Mono-Kote" fireproofing material, a dry mixture of vermiculite, gypsum, and asbestos packed and sold in 50-pound bags to construction companies. At the construction site a contractor or subcontractor would mix the Mono-Kote with water and spray the mixture on structural steel to fireproof it. In the early 1970s...
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