https://www.imesotheliomalaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Which-Companies-Used-Asbestos.mp4 The number of litigants or to be more precise the number of defendants that are involved in asbestos cases is currently more than 6000. However this figure is not a true reflection of the full picture of asbestos litigation since 80 or more of findings and settlements for personal injury plaintiffs have actually been against a couple hundred defendants. Today's estimates place the total at 200 or fewer companies that are defendants in asbestos cases currently. However that can be misleading as well due to all of the company name changes acquisitions and mergers that have taken place over the years with the companies that were originally involved. Legally the fact remains that liability for tens of thousands of deaths and injuries related to asbestos have been against a few hundred companies falling into three major categories of organizations that engaged in one or more of the following activities: Use asbestos-related products as part of their manufacturing processes Made products that contained asbestos Produced and mined asbestos raw materials Since the late 1800s there have been American corporations such as Johns Manville Corporation that have been able to amass tremendous wealth through selling manufacturing and mining products containing asbestos. Centuries later it has been revealed by medical evidence that Johns Manville and many other companies both know about asbestos exposure's potentially deadly effects and also went to very great lengths in order to conceal this information from consumers and workers. In past decades in the United States asbestos was used much more pervasively than it is now. Contaminated materials were quite prevalent in industries such as heavy manufacturing power generation construction and shipbuilding. Since the 1970s when the first wave of personal injury claims were made asbestos liabilities have driven hundreds of companies into bankruptcy. The companies in many of these cases were overwhelmed by the claims and established asbestos and mesothelioma trust funds in order to cover the costs of both future and current lawsuits. Although medical evidence indicates that being exposed to asbestos for even brief amounts of time may cause life-threatening respiratory illnesses like mesothelioma asbestosis and lung cancer the use of contaminated products within the U.S. and numerous other countries has continued. A 2011 inventory of over 60000 asbestos-laden products showed approximately 600 suppliers and companies operating in that year worldwide. Companies That Have Manufactured Asbestos Products (North America) Westinghouse Electric Western Macarthur W.R. Grace Union Carbide Unarco The Flintkote Company Synkoloid Company Shook and Fletcher Rutland Rock Wool Manufacturing Co. Republic Powdered Metals Raybestos Manhattan Raymark Industries Rapid American Phillip Carey Manufacturing Porter Hayden Company Plibrico Company Pittsburgh Corning Pacor Incorporated Owens Illinois Owens Corning Fiberglass North American Refractories Nicolet Keasbey amp; Mattison National Gypsum Mobil Oil Corporation Minnesota Mining amp; Manufacturing Mergenthaler Malleable Iron Range Company M.H. Detrick Company Lincoln Electric Leslie Controls Inc. Kentile Floors Kelly Moore Paint Co Kaiser Aluminum John Crane J T Thorpe Inc. Ingersoll Rand Honeywell Heating Harbison Walker Refractories Co. H. K. Porter Inc. Gold Bond General Motors General Electric Garlock GAF Corporation Foster Wheeler Foseco Ford Motor Company Flexitallic Gasket Company Federal Mogul Corporation Ehret Magnesia Eagle Picher Industries Inc. Dana Corporation Daimler Chrysler Crown Cork and Seal Congoleum Corporation Combustion Engineering Cleaver-Brooks Certainteed Corporation Celotex C. E. Thurston amp; Sons Borg Warner Company Bestwall Gypsum Bell Asbestos Mines Babcock and Wilcox Armstrong World Industries Amatex Corporation Abex Corporation A. P. Green Industries AC amp; S A.B.B. Lummus Global Inc. To find out more information about Asbestos Compensation in Australia visit here. The post Which Companies Used Asbestos? appeared first on iMesothelioma Law. via iMesothelioma Law https://www.imesotheliomalaw.com.au/which-companies-used-asbestos/