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Did you work with Plaskon Polyester and Urea-Formaldehyde Resins for Industrial and Electrical Applications? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Plaskon Polyester and Urea-Formaldehyde Resins for Industrial and Electrical Applications, sold from around the 1930s until the 1970s. Plaskon Company (Toledo OH, division of Allied Chemical / Libbey-Owens-Ford) was a principal U.S. polyester and urea-formaldehyde resin producer through the asbestos era. Plaintiffs allege Plaskon resins were specified with asbestos reinforcement for industrial and electrical molding applications. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: asbestos fiber reinforcement in polyester and urea-formaldehyde resin matrices. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Phenolic-compound molders, Electrical workers, and Industrial fabricators. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Plaskon Polyester and Urea-Formaldehyde Resins for Industrial and Electrical Applications 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
Plaskon Company (Toledo Ohio — historically a division of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company and later Allied Chemical Corporation) was through the 20th century one of the principal U.S. manufacturers of polyester and urea-formaldehyde resins for industrial and electrical molding applications. The DuBois “Plastics History U.S.A.” (1972) volume identifies Plaskon as one of the principal early U.S. polyester resin producers — alongside American Cyanamid, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Libby Owens Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, and Marco Chemicals.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Plaskon polyester and urea-formaldehyde resin compounds were specified through the asbestos era with asbestos fiber reinforcement for industrial molding and electrical insulation applications and that compound molders and downstream fabricators who handled Plaskon asbestos-filled resin products were exposed to airborne asbestos fibers.
Plaskon Company / Allied Chemical has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Phenolic-compound and polyester-resin molders at Plaskon and downstream molding shops
- Electrical workers servicing Plaskon-molded electrical insulation components
- Industrial fabricators working Plaskon-resin products
- Toledo OH Plaskon plant workforce
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If you or a family member worked at Plaskon Company (Allied Chemical) 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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