Vinyl acetate
Vinyl acetate releases at Kuraray America INC fell from 115k lb to 29k lb (75% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Kuraray America INC
Total reported releases 557k lb fell sharply year over year (-44%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 24% since 2014.
12342 STRANG RD, Laporte, Texas · 325211 · Chemicals · operated by Kuraray Holdings USA INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Vinyl acetate
Vinyl acetate at Kuraray America INC have more than three-quarters since 2014 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2014.
Ethylene
Ethylene concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
Vinyl acetate
Vinyl acetate concentrations have more than halved since 2014.
Hydroquinone
Hydroquinone concentrations are up 28% since 2014.
Acrolein
Acrolein concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Methyl methacrylate
Methyl methacrylate concentrations have fallen 29% since 2014.
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 12,340. Why we surface this →
38.1%
Low-income
62.5%
People of color
6.4%
Under age 5
13.5%
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.