Diisocyanates
Diisocyanates releases at Basf rose from 18k lb to 44k lb (2.5×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Basf
Total reported releases 44k lb more than doubled year over year (+103%). Total releases concentrations are up 63% since 2014.
106 S MAIN, Malcom, Iowa · 325211 · Chemicals · operated by Basf CORP
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Diisocyanates
Diisocyanates concentrations have fallen 18% since 2018.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Poweshiek County County, IA (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 18,608. Why we surface this →
10.8%
Low-income
8.7%
People of color
5.7%
Under age 5
20.7%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.