The DuPont company, which provides agricultural products, electronic products, apparel, electronics, and construction, safety and transportation products, to 70 countries around the world, is being sued.

DuPont is being sued due to asbestos-related illnesses that three workers have come down with from the company’s former nylon fabrication plant in Argentina. DuPont sold the Argentina plant in 2004 to an energy and chemicals company called Koch Industries for $4.4 billion.

The workers, Cristian Dematei (35-years-old), Juan Carlos Laborda (68-years-old), and Ceferino Ramirez (76-years-old) believe that DuPont knew the dangers of asbestos exposure, yet the company continued to keep up a type of work that made it dangerous for workers.

The production of nylon involves polymerization, which means combining base polymers, which require a chemical reaction inside a specially designed machine that can reach extremely high temperatures. Because of this, the pipes must be insulated, and in this case they were insulated with asbestos, and the high heats released the fibers.

Dematei has come down with asbestosis, which is a chronic and debilitating respiratory disease, while Laborda has both asbestosis and a form of lung cancer, and Ramirez also has asbestosis and cancer of the throat.

The DuPont owners are arguing that they were always concerned for their workers safety.

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