Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds releases at Befesa Zinc US INC. rose from 17k lb to 294k lb (17.1×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Befesa Zinc US INC.
Total reported releases 345k lb rose by an order of magnitude year over year (+1062%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
900 DELAWARE AVE, Palmerton, Pennsylvania · 331492 · Primary Metals · operated by Befesa Holding US INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
Manganese compounds
Manganese compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Cadmium compounds
Cadmium compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
Mercury compounds
Mercury compounds concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (10 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 11,999. Why we surface this →
31.1%
Low-income
3.6%
People of color
5.0%
Under age 5
22.5%
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.