Facility detail

BLUESTONE SPECIALTY CHEMICALS LLC

10 INDUSTRY AVE, JOLIET, IL, 60435

Parent company: NA

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 Ammonia Copper compounds Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Nitric acid Total (lbs)
2023 — 10 — — — 10
2021 — — — — — 10
2020 — — — — — 10
2019 — — — — — 10
2018 1,000 500 750 — — 2,250
2017 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2016 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2015 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2014 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2013 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2012 1,500 500 750 — — 2,750
2011 1,500 500 250 — — 2,250
2010 1,500 500 250 — 500 2,750
2009 255 500 250 — — 1,005
2008 255 500 250 — — 1,005
2007 255 500 — — — 755
2006 255 500 — — — 755
2005 5 500 5 — 5 515
2002 — 250 — — — 250
2001 750 250 — — 250 1,250
2000 750 250 — — 250 1,250
1999 1,000 255 — — 250 1,505
1998 750 — — — 250 1,000
1997 750 — — — 250 1,000
1996 750 — — — 250 1,000
1995 750 — — — 1,750 2,500
1994 22,750 250 — 500 250 24,500
1990 750 — — 500 250 1,750
1989 480 — — 288 — 768
1988 4,860 — — 3,490 — 8,350

▎ 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.