General Industries Company

GENERAL INDUSTRY COMPANY was founded in 1915, and was located in Elyria, Ohio. General Industries was a Manufacturing plant that made different types of plastic molded products for various industries. During the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s, some of the molding compounds that General Industries used to make their plastic molded products contained asbestos. The companies […]

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Durez Plastics – Kenton, Ohio Plant

Durez Plastics (originally named General Plastics) was established in 1921 by Harry M. Dent in North Tonawanda, New York. Durez was a chemical and plastics factory that manufactured plastic molding compound, which it then sold to other manufacturing facilities. These facilities used the plastic molding compound supplied by Durez to make a wide variety of […]

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