Product Description
Honeymead Products Company operated Upper Midwest sugar and oilseed processing under a portfolio that touched the beet-sugar refining chain from the 1940s through the 1980s. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, Honeymead sugar crystallizers and their associated shell-and-tube heat exchangers allegedly used asbestos-fabric lagging on vessel shells, asbestos insulation on hot-syrup and vapor piping, and asbestos-containing gaskets at flange and manway connections. Lagging tear-off and gasket replacement allegedly disturbed asbestos components during scheduled outages.
Workers Exposed
Sugar refinery workers, sugar beet processors, food-plant pipefitters, and boilermakers allegedly worked on and around Honeymead crystallizers and heat exchangers during production and shutdowns. Insulation rework, flange gasket replacement, and heat-exchanger tube service allegedly released respirable fiber into confined refinery bays.