Chloroacetic acid
Chloroacetic acid releases at Nouryon Functional Chemicals LLC rose from 8k lb to 20k lb (2.5×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Nouryon Functional Chemicals LLC
Total reported releases 73k lb rose modestly year over year (+8%). Total releases concentrations are up 60% since 2010.
13440 HWY 43 N, Axis, Alabama · 325180 · Chemicals · operated by Nouryon USA LLC
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Carbon disulfide
Carbon disulfide concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Chloroacetic acid
Chloroacetic acid concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2012.
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Chlorine
Chlorine concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 1,726. Why we surface this →
36.7%
Low-income
15.2%
People of color
8.6%
Under age 5
8.5%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.