The hearth on the manufacturing facility of the corporate “Palamidis Stainless Metal Merchandise PAL SA” triggered a big cloud of smoke and instantly mobilized the 112 of Civil Safety who despatched a message: “Smoke is heading to your space. Keep indoors, shut doorways and home windows.”
Though at first look it’s simple to grasp {that a} fireplace in a manufacturing facility additionally means poisonous gases, for this there’s a particular cause for concern and it’s referred to as Teflon.
Found in 1938 and owned as a commerce identify by multinational chemical firm DuPont, Teflon is popularly identified for non-stick pans however has a whole bunch of functions in business and on a regular basis life. It was the “miracle” chemical compound that developed over time, however its manufacturing price the lives of firm employees and residents of the US metropolis of Parkersburg, West Virginia, the place the corporate had a manufacturing facility.
After an enormous epidemiological investigation that proved that 1000’s of residents had been affected by severe illnesses – with most cancers being essentially the most severe – because of the manufacturing facility’s manufacturing, a authorized battle started that lasted nearly 20 years. At its peak, DuPont confronted 3,500 totally different lawsuits.
After its first three convictions, which price it $19.7 million, in 2017 DuPont settled by paying greater than $300 million to the folks of Parkesburg. The aforementioned, had occupied the American press for a very long time and have become a film in Hollywood, Darkish Waters (2019).
These had been associated to the sooner manufacturing of Teflon. Within the latest one, DuPont assures that it has eliminated all carcinogenic parts.
Nevertheless, Teflon is taken into account protected as much as 400 levels Celsius and a manufacturing facility fireplace may be very prone to exceed them.
The hearth on the manufacturing facility in Kifissia could also be way more harmful than it appears.
Pictures from the web site of the Palamides firm PAL present that the corporate additionally produced merchandise with Teflon
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