Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers releases at Gelest INC rose from 1k lb to 31k lb (21.1×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Gelest INC
Total reported releases 240k lb rose by an order of magnitude year over year (+1050%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2021.
11 E STEEL RD, Morrisville, Pennsylvania · 325199 · Chemicals · operated by Mitsubishi Chemical America INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Toluene
Toluene releases at Gelest INC rose from 2k lb to 47k lb (20.7×) between 2023 and 2024.
Methanol
Methanol releases at Gelest INC rose from 9k lb to 125k lb (13.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 90% since 2021.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2012.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (16 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 21,421. Why we surface this →
17.9%
Low-income
18.2%
People of color
5.0%
Under age 5
14.6%
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.