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Rank in Toxic 100 Air Polluters: 19
Rank among all TRI companies: 33
Air releases 2021 (lbs): 625,007
Incineration transfers 2021 (lbs): 1,960,506
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2021: 2,050,532
Percentage of national total 2021 toxic air and incineration score: 0.6%
EJ: Poor Share: 16%
EJ: Minority Share: 40%

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This company is rank 68 on the Toxic 100 Water Polluters list.
This company has information in PERI's Greenhouse 100 Polluters database.

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Diisocyanates 37,377 27,612 1,795,135 87.54% 16.5% 42.3%
Trichloroethylene 82,974 49,145 169,797 8.28% 15.7% 20.0%
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.) 233 0 72,077 3.52% 14.9% 23.1%
Butyl acrylate 15,187 1,400 3,850 0.19% 10.9% 29.8%
Acrylic acid 8,984 0 1,972 0.10% 11.0% 23.0%
Certain glycol ethers 105,496 32,291 1,462 0.07% 12.6% 28.8%
Allyl alcohol 1,003 200 1,325 0.06% 16.2% 19.6%
Ethylbenzene 16,128 187,771 1,293 0.06% 16.1% 38.3%
Naphthalene 1,307 2,049 904 0.04% 10.9% 21.7%
Chromium 2 0 746 0.04% 17.6% 29.0%
Formaldehyde 104 0 531 0.03% 22.7% 39.2%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 13 0 268 0.01% 19.7% 61.9%
Acrylonitrile 13 0 262 0.01% 8.9% 17.2%
Xylene (mixed isomers) 62,962 616,307 212 0.01% 15.2% 39.5%
Nickel compounds 10 0 135 0.01% 14.6% 28.3%
Chlorine 40 0 109 0.01% 15.4% 21.5%
Manganese compounds 120 0 95 0.00% 21.8% 57.9%
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 15,940 3,631 81 0.00% 16.4% 34.7%
Acrylamide 2 0 71 0.00% 8.7% 16.7%
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 55,899 119,765 45 0.00% 12.6% 30.7%
Ethyl acrylate 7,802 1,273 34 0.00% 11.0% 27.8%
Phthalic anhydride 1,877 0 25 0.00% 10.7% 29.5%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.) 202 0 21 0.00% 18.9% 52.2%
Zinc compounds 1,351 0 18 0.00% 17.8% 44.0%
4,4'-Isopropylidenediphenol 16,612 0 16 0.00% 8.6% 25.9%
Methyl methacrylate 40,740 1,510 14 0.00% 11.8% 31.3%
Maleic anhydride 64 0 10 0.00% 18.0% 26.1%
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 252 0 6 0.00% 15.6% 20.3%
Phosgene 2 99 4 0.00% 15.6% 20.3%
Toluene 40,658 531,328 3 0.00% 15.5% 41.2%
Methyl isobutyl ketone 35,942 266,831 3 0.00% 12.3% 31.6%
Styrene 14,999 1,355 3 0.00% 9.1% 26.4%
Ethylene glycol 2,152 9,510 1 0.00% 14.9% 58.7%
Barium 4 0 1 0.00% 17.6% 29.0%
Methanol 36,633 102,885 1 0.00% 18.4% 52.4%
Nitric acid 16 0 1 0.00% 22.6% 61.5%
Lead compounds 0 0 1 0.00% 17.1% 51.3%
Diethanolamine 6 0 0 0.00% 8.3% 15.1%
Cyclohexane 4,359 0 0 0.00% 12.8% 58.3%
Aluminum (fume or dust) 12 1,628 0 0.00% 17.6% 29.0%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia is reportable under this listing) 286 52 0 0.00% 22.1% 53.8%
Lead 0 0 0 0.00% 14.6% 39.5%
n-Hexane (Hexane) 1,500 0 0 0.00% 18.0% 52.2%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds (Manufacturing; and the processing or otherwise use of dioxin and dioxin like compounds if the dioxin and dioxin like compounds are present as contaminants in a chemical and if they were created during the manufacturing of that chemical.) 0 0 0 0.00% 17.6% 29.0%
Cumene 139 0 0 0.00% 12.6% 12.6%
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 288 5 0 0.00% 11.2% 37.4%
Mercury 0 0 0 0.00% 9.3% 20.2%
Sodium nitrite 4 20 0 0.00% 21.9% 57.7%
Phenol 56 0 0 0.00% 21.0% 64.4%
sec-Butyl alcohol (2-Butanol) 800 3,392 0 0.00% 11.6% 31.9%
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 21 53 0 0.00% 17.2% 64.6%
Diglycidyl resorcinol ether 494 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0%
Dimethyl phthalate 3,794 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0%
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone 5,484 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0%
Nonylphenol 3,171 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0%
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates 1,492 394 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0%

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