Durez Plastics Corporation in North Tonawanda, New York, will always be remembered by the community surrounding it for its role in exposing workers, and their families alike, to asbestos dust. Despite the tragedy surrounding the plant and many deaths among its workers caused by asbestos exposure, Durez was once an important employer and vital part […]
The lawyers at Lipsitz, Ponterio & Comerford are very familiar with past conditions at Durez Plastics because, since 1985, we have represented many workers from the plant suffering from mesothelioma, lung cancer and other asbestos-related diseases. In representing former Durez workers, we have learned that some people who lived or worked on the outskirts of […]
Durez Plastics (originally named General Plastics) started off with five employees in an upstairs two-room loft on Young Street in North Tonawanda, NY. After being dismissed by DuPont during the recession of 1921, Harry M. Dent founded the Durez Company. Durez had such simple beginnings that in its initial years Mr. Dent made personal deliveries […]