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Did you work with Kamyr continuous kraft-cooking digester asbestos-packed blow-valve seats and asbestos-fabric top-separator lagging used in U.S. kraft pulp mills? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Kamyr continuous kraft-cooking digester asbestos-packed blow-valve seats and asbestos-fabric top-separator lagging used in U.S. kraft pulp mills, sold from the 1950s until the 1980s. Plaintiffs allegedly identified Kamyr continuous digesters as a source of asbestos-packed blow-valve and asbestos-fabric top-separator lagging exposure across U.S. kraft pulp mills. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered chrysotile asbestos packing seated in the Kamyr digester blow-valve seat rings and asbestos-fabric lagging wrapped around the top-separator and impregnation-vessel sections, released as airborne fiber when digester cooks and pulp mill millwrights broke open blow-valve bonnets and tore off top-separator lagging during scheduled digester shutdowns and turnarounds. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Pulp mill digester cooks, Blow-tank operators, Paper mill millwrights, and Kraft recovery-boiler firemen. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Kamyr continuous kraft-cooking digester asbestos-packed blow-valve seats and asbestos-fabric top-separator lagging used in U.S. kraft pulp mills and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
Kamyr Inc., the U.S. arm of the Swedish digester-technology licensor, supplied continuous kraft-cooking digester systems to the U.S. kraft pulp industry from the 1950s onward, becoming the dominant continuous-digester design in the American South and Pacific Northwest. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Kamyr digester installations relied on chrysotile asbestos packing in the seat rings of the digester blow-valves — the high-differential-pressure valves that discharge cooked kraft pulp to the blow tank — and that the top-separator and impregnation-vessel sections were insulated with asbestos-fabric lagging blankets to retain cooking-liquor temperature.
According to publicly filed allegations, this asbestos configuration was carried forward across Kamyr continuous-cooking installations from the 1950s through the early 1980s and appeared in bleached-kraft mills throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast, Southeast, and Pacific Northwest.
Workers Exposed
Publicly filed asbestos complaints have allegedly identified the following trades as exposed to Kamyr digester materials:
- Pulp mill digester cooks monitoring blow-valves and cooking liquor recirculation
- Blow-tank operators working the discharge side during blow-valve teardown
- Paper mill millwrights repacking blow-valve seats and rebuilding valve bonnets
- Kraft recovery-boiler firemen adjacent during turnaround steam-line breaks
- Pulp mill maintenance mechanics tearing off and rewrapping top-separator lagging
- Insulators and pipe coverers applying asbestos-fabric blanket lagging on the digester upper vessel
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If you or a family member worked at Kamyr Digester and were exposed to asbestos-containing materials at this facility — and were diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related disease — you may have a legal claim. Time-sensitive filing deadlines apply.
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