Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) releases at Nichiha USA INC. - Macon Cement Fiberbo rose from 60k lb to 144k lb (2.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Nichiha USA INC. - Macon Cement Fiberbo
Total reported releases 269k lb more than doubled year over year (+112%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
3150 AVONDALE MILL ROAD, Macon, Georgia · 327999 · Nonmetallic Mineral Product
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Notable Signals
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds releases at Nichiha USA INC. - Macon Cement Fiberbo rose from 18k lb to 43k lb (2.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
Arsenic compounds
Arsenic compounds releases at Nichiha USA INC. - Macon Cement Fiberbo rose from 26k lb to 62k lb (2.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Arsenic compounds
Arsenic compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have fallen 11% since 2017.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Mercury compounds
Mercury compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (8 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 12,645. Why we surface this →
27.0%
Low-income
42.3%
People of color
5.0%
Under age 5
18.9%
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.