Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds releases at Avantor Performance Materials rose from 7k lb to 23k lb (3.2×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Avantor Performance Materials
Total reported releases 50k lb more than halved year over year (-75%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
7001 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD, Paris, Kentucky · 325199 · Chemicals · operated by Avantor Performance Materials INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol releases at Avantor Performance Materials fell from 157k lb to 4k lb (97% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations are up 30% since 2019.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have more than halved since 2016.
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations have more than doubled since 2021.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2020.
Dichloromethane
Dichloromethane concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than halved since 2014.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (11 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 9,248. Why we surface this →
43.0%
Low-income
20.1%
People of color
7.1%
Under age 5
18.2%
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.