BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Handi-foil is facing a class action lawsuit that complains its aluminum products are not made in the United States, as the company represents.
Plaintiff Merryl Osdoby and her lawyer, Robert Kraselnik of Larchmont, N.Y., filed suit July 18 in New York federal court. The case comes a month after Reynolds Consumer Products filed a motion to dismiss a similar lawsuit in Chicago federal court.
“(V)irtually all of the material used in Handi-foil products is imported,” the suit says. “Handi-foil, through its marketing and labeling, is fraudulently misrepresenting that all of its products are made in the SUA, when in fact virtually all of the material used in Handi-foil products is imported from China, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Germany, Belgium and Greece.”
Reynolds has argued that even though the bauxite used in its foil comes from other countries, its aluminum products are made in America because they are blended and processed at a facility in Arkansas then made ready for sale at a facility in Kentucky.
Handi-foil makes aluminum pans, cookie sheets and wraps, among other things. It imports its cold rolled aluminum, aluminum strips, aluminum foil, laminated board lids and plastic lids from other countries, the suit says.