Facility detail

SOLVAY USA INC

14000 S SEELEY AVE, BLUE ISLAND, IL, 60406

Parent company: SOLVAY USA INC

Carcinogen — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

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 Certain glycol ethers Ammonia Methanol Diethanolamine Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Total (lbs)
2020 — 661 — — — 661
2019 — 675 — — — 675
2018 — 663 — — — 663
2017 — 657 — — — 657
2016 — 704 — — — 704
2015 — 576 — — — 576
2014 — 740 — — — 740
2013 — 693 — — — 693
2012 — 641 — — — 641
2011 — 671 — — — 671
2009 — 17,901 — — — 17,911
2008 — 17,993 3,675 — 117 21,794
2007 — 4,730 3,453 — 108 8,306
2006 — 4,770 3,476 — 97 8,353
2005 — 4,816 3,524 — 230 8,579
2004 — 4,740 777 — — 5,537
2003 10 6,285 11,197 7,232 1,605 26,349
2002 1 6,537 6,275 7,236 1,890 21,959
2001 — 6,004 2,454 7,232 960 16,650
2000 — 5,486 43 2,113 960 8,602
1999 2,766 5,862 10,522 2,944 1,370 23,766
1998 2,766 5,515 9,696 3,034 4,234 25,651
1997 2,765 7,206 12,608 7,233 6,245 37,350
1996 1,387 6,081 6,450 7,232 — 25,782
1995 16,682 6,954 11,585 8,055 — 44,947
1994 24,819 8,230 — 1,389 — 34,824
1993 25,842 9,035 — 1,138 5 36,388
1992 25,337 11,111 — 1,227 5 38,321
1991 26,203 10,963 — 1,259 5 38,919
1990 24,910 9,118 — 872 5 35,050
1989 24,360 8,415 — 700 — 33,655
1988 24,541 6,163 — 922 — 31,626
1987 24,286 — — 883 — 25,169

▎ 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.