Aluminum (fume or dust)
Aluminum (fume or dust) releases at Linamar Light Metals-Mr fell from 15k lb to 2k lb (87% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Total reported releases 2k lb more than halved year over year (-87%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
490 FERNCLIFF PARK DRIVE, Mills River, North Carolina · 331523 · Primary Metals · operated by Linamar Holding Nevada INC
Aluminum (fume or dust) releases at Linamar Light Metals-Mr fell from 15k lb to 2k lb (87% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Aluminum (fume or dust) concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
Copper concentrations have more than halved since 2019.
Lead concentrations have more than halved since 2019.
Within 3 miles of this facility (12 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 19,177. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
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.