North Tonawanda, New York – Asbestos and Mesothelioma Exposure National Grinding Wheel Co., Inc., formerly located and headquartered in North Tonawanda, New York, manufactured industrial grinding wheels used in heavy industrial applications. The company was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1904 and relocated to North Tonawanda in 1929, where the company constructed its original […]
Buffalo Pumps, Inc. is located at 874 Oliver Street in North Tonawanda, New York, and has operated at this original site since its founding in 1887. All operations, including engineering, manufacturing, and sales, are conducted within the 94,300-square-foot facility. While the defense market has long been a key segment, the company’s primary business has centered […]
Protect Your Family’s Rights After Asbestos Exposure at Durez Plastics 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 […]
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 […]
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