Facility detail

AMBER PLATING WORKS INC

3100 N TRIPP AVE, CHICAGO, IL, 606415448

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 Trichloroethylene Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Nickel compounds Cyanide compounds Copper compounds Total (lbs)
2000 1,500 500 500 2,500
1999 500 500 500 1,750
1998 1,500 500 500 2,500
1997 500 500 500 1,500
1996 500 500 500 1,500
1995 500 500 500 1,500
1994 500 500 500 1,500
1993 500 500 500 1,500
1992 8,600 500 500 500 10,800
1991 10,400 8,600 500 500 500 21,200
1990 29,000 8,600 500 40,350
1989 24,000 7,500 500 34,250
1988 500 3,500
1987 2,250

▎ 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.