Everest Industries Ltd. (formerly known as Eternit Everest Ltd) commenced business by taking over, as a growing concern, the erstwhile Asbestos Cement (India) at Kymore, Madhya Pradesh.

The trial followed the deaths of 91 people as a result of exposure to asbestos in the Eternit factories in Casale Monferrato, in the northern region of Piedmont. The public prosecutor’s office ...

Whether removing Monokote — a substance that in previous forms has been linked to cancer-causing asbestos fibers — is fast and economical in the proposed demolition of two of the RenCen's four ...

The military, alerted by 112, intervened in Masseria de Siervo on a municipal land and surprised the 3 while they were unloading several sheets of Eternit. The investigations of the Carabinieri ...

Mechanics at a U-Haul facility in Spokane, Wash. were unknowingly exposed to hazardous asbestos while working on rental trucks, as deteriorating vinyl flooring in the building released the toxic ...

Beneath the streets of America’s Finest City, are nearly 2,000 miles of asbestos concrete pipes carrying drinking water to thousands of homes. “That is shocking and that blows my mind,” said ...

He inherited Eternit after his father divided the industrial empire between him and his brother. One of his notable achievements was ending the company's use of asbestos in 1986, five years after ...

The compensation came as the court also extended jail terms for executives of Eternit for contributing to asbestos-linked health problems among its Italian workforce. Prosecutors said that around ...

In March the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was banning ongoing uses of asbestos. People might have thought, Wait—what? Wasn’t it already banned? After all, many ...

American manufacturers started widely using asbestos in their products in the 19th century. Here's why use of the material persisted, despite attempts to ban it decades ago. A close-up of asbestos ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it is taking a “historic” step by banning ongoing uses of asbestos, which has long been linked to multiple types of cancer. The agency ...

Peter Franklin is on the board of Reflections, a not-for-profit organisation for the asbestos awareness and support of people with asbestos-related disease. The New South Wales government has ...