Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde releases at Billerud Escanaba LLC rose from 20k lb to 31k lb between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Billerud Escanaba LLC
Total reported releases 705k lb held roughly steady year over year (+1%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 25% since 2010.
7100 COUNTY RD 426, Escanaba, Michigan · 322120 · Paper · operated by Billerud Americas CORP
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Notable Signals
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) releases at Billerud Escanaba LLC fell from 55k lb to 3k lb (94% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
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) at Billerud Escanaba LLC have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 49% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations have more than doubled since 2012.
Cresol (mixed isomers)
Cresol (mixed isomers) concentrations are up 11% since 2010.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations are up 58% since 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 fallen 38% since 2010.
Phenol
Phenol concentrations are up 13% since 2010.
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 6,635. Why we surface this →
33.6%
Low-income
5.8%
People of color
6.4%
Under age 5
24.4%
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.