Zinc (fume or dust)
Zinc (fume or dust) releases at Wheatland Tube Western Tube rose from 4k lb to 16k lb (4.0×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Wheatland Tube Western Tube
Total reported releases 69k lb more than doubled year over year (+98%). Total releases concentrations are up 98% since 2023.
1600 RITCHIE COURT, Rochelle, Illinois · 331210 · Primary Metals · operated by Zekelman Industries INC
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations are up 50% since 2023.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations are up 41% since 2023.
Zinc (fume or dust)
Zinc (fume or dust) concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
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 2022.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Lead
Lead concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2022.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (4 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 4,659. Why we surface this →
32.6%
Low-income
27.0%
People of color
1.8%
Under age 5
14.8%
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.