Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Ingredion INC Argo Plant fell from 542k lb to 166k lb (69% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Ingredion INC Argo Plant
Total reported releases 593k lb fell sharply year over year (-36%). Total releases concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
6400 S ARCHER AVE, Bedford Park, Illinois · 311221 · Food · operated by Ingredion INC
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Notable Signals
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) at Ingredion INC Argo Plant have more than halved since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations are up 36% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have fallen 14% since 2020.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
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 have more than halved since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Acrolein
Acrolein concentrations have fallen 19% since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (125 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 157,150. Why we surface this →
28.7%
Low-income
69.7%
People of color
6.1%
Under age 5
15.3%
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.