Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
FANSTEEL INC
1 TANTALUM PL, NORTH CHICAGO, IL, 60064
Parent company: NA
Carcinogen
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
Top chemical totals
The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.
Full release table
Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.
| All values in pounds (lbs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Trichloroethylene | Nitric acid | Hydrogen fluoride | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Total (lbs) | |
| 1990 | 19,005 | 15 | — | — | 19,020 | |
| 1989 | 61,250 | 750 | 750 | — | 62,750 | |
| 1988 | — | — | — | 750 | 750 | |
▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.