Ppg Industries Inc
48 facilities · 24 states · 4.5M lbs total releases
According to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, Ppg Industries Inc is the reported parent of 48 Form R facilities across 24 states, disclosing 4.5M lbs of toxic releases. 24 of 280 reported chemicals carry a carcinogen classification in the TRI extract. The heaviest-reporting state by release volume is Ohio (1.0M lbs). Those TRI figures remain self-reported disclosure pounds for Ppg Industries Inc, including carcinogen-flagged substances, not a measured public-health risk score.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Ppg Industries Inc: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-29.9%
32 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
-30.0%
925.7 thousand lb → 648.1 thousand lb, every facility that filed
Between the two reporting years, 3 facilities filed for the first time and 2 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Ppg Industries Inc's total reported releases fell from 919.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 644.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ppg Industries Inc's off-site transfers fell from 614.6 thousand lb in 2022 to 400.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ppg Industries Inc's air releases fell from 304.7 thousand lb in 2022 to 243.9 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Ppg Industries Inc's water releases rose from 121 lb in 2022 to 133 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
TRI parent disclosure trail
Read Ppg Industries Inc from filing to facility
Largest Form R sites under this parent: Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings; Ppg Industriesinc-Springdale Complex; Ppg Industries Inc Barberton; Ppg Brazil Liquid. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Clean Harbors Inc; Suzano Packaging LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Copper compounds; Zinc compounds; Certain glycol ethers; Trichloroethylene; Toluene. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Ohio; Arkansas; Pennsylvania. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Chemicals; Fabricated Metals; Transportation Equipment; Plastics and Rubber. Start from those named sites and neighbors rather than a generic parent blurb; pounds stay disclosure, not risk.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, TRI Basic Data Files Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) · August 2026
Largest Form R sites under this parent: Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings; Ppg Industriesinc-Springdale Complex; Ppg Industries Inc Barberton; Ppg Brazil Liquid. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Clean Harbors Inc; Suzano Packaging LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Copper compounds; Zinc compounds; Certain glycol ethers; Trichloroethylene; Toluene. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Ohio; Arkansas; Pennsylvania. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Chemicals; Fabricated Metals; Transportation Equipment; Plastics and Rubber.
Ppg Industries Inc ranks #283 of 4,988 slug-merged TRI parents, a smaller disclosed-volume parent relative to the national Form R parent set. Ppg Industries Inc spans 24 states in this extract, placing it among the broader national TRI parent footprints. Ppg Industries Inc's disclosed pounds are spread across 48 facilities, no single site dominates the parent total in this extract.
Parent aggregation for Ppg Industries Inc follows facility-reported names. Compare the named neighbors (Clean Harbors Inc; Suzano Packaging LLC) before treating rank as a hazard score; TRI stays self-reported and unweighted by toxicity.
Where Ppg Industries Inc sits among TRI parents
Ppg Industries Inc sits on a disclosure ladder beside Clean Harbors Inc and Suzano Packaging LLC. Open those parents for a different facility count, state span, and chemical mix.
Higher disclosed volume
- Clean Harbors Inc · rank #281 · 16.6M lbs
- Suzano Packaging LLC · rank #282 · 15.3M lbs
Largest chemicals disclosed by Ppg Industries Inc
Copper compounds; Zinc compounds; Certain glycol ethers; Trichloroethylene; Toluene lead the Form R pound rollup for this parent, including filings such as Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings. Pound totals, not toxicity-weighted risk.
| Chemical | Disclosed lbs |
|---|---|
| Copper compounds | 862.2K lbs |
| Zinc compounds | 589.1K lbs |
| Certain glycol ethers | 486.0K lbs |
| Trichloroethylene | 425.0K lbs |
| Toluene | 306.2K lbs |
Where does this company operate?
| State | Facilities | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | 1.0M lbs |
| Arkansas | 1 | 869.8K lbs |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 685.1K lbs |
| Indiana | 5 | 555.6K lbs |
| Michigan | 5 | 307.0K lbs |
| California | 4 | 201.6K lbs |
| Kansas | 1 | 192.9K lbs |
| Tennessee | 1 | 108.2K lbs |
| Oregon | 1 | 99.7K lbs |
| Texas | 4 | 78.5K lbs |
| South Carolina | 1 | 72.2K lbs |
| Illinois | 3 | 57.5K lbs |
| Missouri | 1 | 50.8K lbs |
| North Carolina | 2 | 44.4K lbs |
| Virginia | 1 | 41.5K lbs |
| Georgia | 1 | 34.5K lbs |
| Iowa | 1 | 32.7K lbs |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 23.6K lbs |
| Washington | 1 | 4.1K lbs |
| Nevada | 1 | 3.4K lbs |
| New Jersey | 1 | 1.5K lbs |
| Arizona | 1 | 1.3K lbs |
| Connecticut | 1 | 60 lbs |
| Alabama | 1 | 30 lbs |
Facilities (48)
| Facility | Releases |
|---|---|
| Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings Alexander, AR | 869.8K lbs |
| Ppg Industriesinc-Springdale Complex Springdale, PA | 634.9K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Barberton Barberton, OH | 503.1K lbs |
| Ppg Brazil Liquid Brazil, IN | 445.3K lbs |
| Ppg Coatings Services Detroit Detroit, MI | 267.0K lbs |
| Ppg Euclid Pretreatment & Specialty Products Euclid, OH | 233.1K lbs |
| Versaflex Kansas City, KS | 192.9K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc. Mojave, CA | 168.2K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Ohio Inc - Delaware Delaware, OH | 142.0K lbs |
| Crown Group Portland Tn Plant Portland, TN | 108.2K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint Salem Salem, OR | 99.7K lbs |
| Ppg Lafayette Lafayette, IN | 79.1K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Ohio Inc Circleville Oh Circleville, OH | 77.0K lbs |
| Sem Products Inc Rock Hill, SC | 72.2K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Ohio Inc (cl) Cleveland, OH | 64.8K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint North Ennis, TX | 54.4K lbs |
| Crown Group East Moline Plant East Moline, IL | 51.8K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint Hannibal, MO | 50.8K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Monroeville, PA | 50.2K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint Richmond Richmond, VA | 41.5K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc. Kennesaw, GA | 34.5K lbs |
| Crown Group Waterloo Plant Waterloo, IA | 32.7K lbs |
| Ppg Industries-Adrian Adrian, MI | 32.0K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Greensboro Powder Greensboro, NC | 29.9K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint Bakersfield Bakersfield, CA | 26.3K lbs |
| Milamar Coatings LLC Oklahoma City, OK | 23.6K lbs |
| Crown Group Fort Wayne Plant Fort Wayne, IN | 17.0K lbs |
| Ennis-Flint Inc - High Point Facility High Point, NC | 14.5K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Tx Gainesville, TX | 12.0K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc. Grand Prairie, TX | 11.8K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc. Indianapolis, IN | 11.7K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Mount Vernon, IL | 5.4K lbs |
| Ppg Coatings Services Livonia Plant Livonia, MI | 5.4K lbs |
| Sierracin/sylmar Corp Sylmar, CA | 4.4K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc. Woodinville, WA | 4.1K lbs |
| Pittsburgh Paint Co Mccarran, NV | 3.4K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc Valencia, CA | 2.7K lbs |
| Ppg Industries - Grand Haven Grand Haven, MI | 2.6K lbs |
| Ppg Brazil Powder Brazil, IN | 2.5K lbs |
| Prc-Desoto International Inc Mount Laurel, NJ | 1.5K lbs |
| Metokote Corp Plant 25 Lima, OH | 1.4K lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Casa Grande, AZ | 1.3K lbs |
| Alpha Coating Technologies LLC West Chicago, IL | 331 lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc Strongsville, OH | 329 lbs |
| Texstars LLC Plant 2 Grand Prairie, TX | 255 lbs |
| Dexmet Corp Wallingford, CT | 60 lbs |
| Ppg Industries Inc. Huntsville, AL | 30 lbs |
| Ppg Coatings Services Shelby Plant Shelby Township, MI | 0 lbs |
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Compare beyond the release ladder
Nationwide peers by disclosed pounds & facility count
Cross-portfolio TRI parents nearest Ppg Industries Inc on total disclosed release pounds (4.5M lbs) and reporting facility count (48). Release-volume peers include Lyondellbasell Industries, Arauco N.a. Inc, Weyerhaeuser Co. Facility-count peers include Owens Corning, Rpm International Inc, Vulcan Materials Co. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of parents.
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Nearest parents (≥3 facilities, ≥10k lbs) by absolute TRI disclosed pounds, not rank-adjacent ladder neighbors.
Similar facility count
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About This Data
EPA TRI parent totals cover all media. This extract's heaviest states for the parent are Ohio, Arkansas, Pennsylvania; facility-reported names can vary across subsidiaries.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, TRI Basic Data Files
What to do with Ppg Industries Inc's TRI parent record
From Ppg Industries Inc, open Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings or compare against Clean Harbors Inc rather than reading rank alone.
- Open the largest Form R site for Ppg Industries Inc (Ppg Protective & Marine Coat Ings in AR). Largest facility
- Compare against Suzano Packaging LLC, the next-higher disclosed-volume parent. Higher-volume parent
- Browse the full parent release ranking to see where Ppg Industries Inc sits among all slug-merged TRI parents. All parent companies
Rank and peers (Clean Harbors Inc, Suzano Packaging LLC) are disclosure volume only, not toxicity-weighted risk or enforcement status.
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Company release figures are computed directly from EPA Toxic Release Inventory data; source names and the record-linking method are documented in the methodology.
Primary sources
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory Basic Data Files - annual facility-level chemical-release disclosures
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