Asbestos (friable)
Asbestos (friable) releases at Air Products Manufacturing LLC fell from 482k lb to 36k lb (93% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Air Products Manufacturing LLC
Total reported releases 49k lb more than halved year over year (-90%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
14700 DOWNEY AVE, Paramount, California · 325199 · Chemicals · operated by Air Products & Chemicals INC
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Asbestos (friable)
Asbestos (friable) concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have fallen 17% since 2010.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations are up 100% since 2010.
Ethylbenzene
Ethylbenzene concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane concentrations are up 42% since 2010.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations have fallen 19% since 2010.
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (189 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 305,400. Why we surface this →
35.3%
Low-income
90.8%
People of color
6.0%
Under age 5
11.1%
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.