EPA TRI Facility · Primary Metals
Sims Precious Metals
Franklin Park, IL · Parent: Metal Management Midwest Inc
- Total releases
- 114 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 5
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Sims Precious Metals: how the 114 lbs splits
114 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 114 lbs 100.0%
Sims Precious Metals's 114 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Copper And Copper Compounds.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Sims Precious Metals is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Franklin Park, IL, in the primary metals sector. It reported 19 lbs of releases across 3 chemicals in 2023, and 114 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 16,409 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Illinois's 951 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Sims Precious Metals is pounds #743 and chemical-count #273 at 114 lbs. Prairie State Generating Co leads reported pounds (37.9M lbs) at 31 chemicals (chemical-count #8). Veolia N.a. Inc. leads chemical count at 141 chemicals (1.9M lbs, pounds #34). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Vorteq Coil Finishers; Oldcastle Precast Inc; Gravure Ink; United Electronics Corp. Similar-scale Primary Metals peers outside Illinois: Madison - Kipp Corp - Sun Prairie; Haynes Wire Co; Wisconsin Precision Casting Corp; Alloy Die Casting Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Copper And Copper Compounds; Silver And Silver Compounds; Lead And Lead Compounds; Silver compounds.
Sims Precious Metals stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 5 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 114 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Madison - Kipp Corp - Sun Prairie and Haynes Wire Co.
Sims Precious Metals vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
114 lbs 37th percentile higher than 37% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Sims Precious Metals in the Primary Metals sector extract
Among the 1,603 Primary Metals facilities in this database, Sims Precious Metals reports the 1,200th-largest volume (114 lbs). Scale peers outside Illinois include Madison - Kipp Corp - Sun Prairie and Haynes Wire Co.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Sims Precious Metals Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Sims Precious Metals releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 114 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 39% (32 lbs to 19 lbs).
Sims Precious Metals: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Sims Precious Metals year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 39% from 2019 to 2023). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Copper And Copper Compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 32 lbs | 3 |
| 2020 | 22 lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 24 lbs | 3 |
| 2022 | 17 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 19 lbs | 3 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Copper And Copper Compounds | 102 lbs | - |
| Silver And Silver Compounds | 7 lbs | - |
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 3 lbs | - |
| Silver compounds | 2 lbs | - |
| Lead compounds | 1 lbs | - |
Sims Precious Metals · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Sims Precious Metals
Closest other reporters in Illinois - including Vorteq Coil Finishers, Oldcastle Precast Inc, Gravure Ink, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 950 other reporting facilities in Illinois.
Similar Primary Metals Facilities
Other Primary Metals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Illinois - e.g. Madison - Kipp Corp - Sun Prairie, Haynes Wire Co, Wisconsin Precision Casting Corp.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Copper And Copper Compounds, Silver And Silver Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds, Silver compounds; nearby reporters include Vorteq Coil Finishers. Sims Precious Metals stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Sims Precious Metals TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Copper And Copper Compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Sims Precious Metals totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Franklin Park, IL, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 331420 · Primary Metals. 0.0% of Cook TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Usalco Mentor Plant LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Sims Precious Metals stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Copper And Copper Compounds. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov