Southwestern Plating CO. INC.
Total reported releases 4k lb rose meaningfully year over year (+15%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 40% since 2010.
1312 HALPERN, Houston, Texas · 332813 · Fabricated Metals · operated by Southwestern Plating Co
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds
Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds concentrations have fallen 41% since 2010.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have fallen 11% since 2020.
Cyanide compounds
Cyanide compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2014.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (103 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 147,320. 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.