EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Tower Automotive
Auburn, IN
- Total releases
- 137 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 4
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Tower Automotive: how the 137 lbs splits
137 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 137 lbs 100.0%
Tower Automotive's 137 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: Manganese.
TRACE volume AIR pathway TRACE-CARC
Tower Automotive is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Auburn, IN, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 58 lbs of releases across 4 chemicals in 2023, and 137 lbs in total across its 2020-2023 reporting years. That ranks 16,235 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Indiana's 871 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Tower Automotive is pounds #709 and chemical-count #330 at 137 lbs. Uss Gary Works leads reported pounds (77.4M lbs) at 36 chemicals (chemical-count #9). Tradebe Treatment & Recycling LLC leads chemical count at 98 chemicals (11.9M lbs, pounds #12). Reported volume rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Ball Brass & Aluminum Foundry; Dekalb Metal Finishing; Contitech USA Inc.; Aludyne N.a. LLC (auburn). Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside Indiana: Honeywell Aerospace; Hayashi Telempu Na; Relco Locomotives Inc; Starlite Trailers Mfg. Inc.. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Manganese; Chromium; Nickel; Copper.
Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 4 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 137 lbs (2020–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Honeywell Aerospace and Hayashi Telempu Na.
Tower Automotive vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
137 lbs 38th percentile higher than 38% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Tower Automotive in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Tower Automotive reports the 1,072nd-largest volume (137 lbs). Scale peers outside Indiana include Honeywell Aerospace and Hayashi Telempu Na.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Tower Automotive's total reported releases rose from 46 lb in 2022 to 58 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Tower Automotive's air releases rose from 46 lb in 2022 to 58 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Tower Automotive Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Tower Automotive releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 137 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2020 to 2023, total releases increased by 238% (17 lbs to 58 lbs).
Tower Automotive: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2020–2023
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Tower Automotive year-over-year reported totals (increased by 238% from 2020 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: Manganese.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17 lbs | 4 |
| 2021 | 17 lbs | 4 |
| 2022 | 46 lbs | 4 |
| 2023 | 58 lbs | 4 |
Tower Automotive · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Tower Automotive
Closest other reporters in Indiana - including Ball Brass & Aluminum Foundry, Dekalb Metal Finishing, Contitech USA Inc., ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 870 other reporting facilities in Indiana.
Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Indiana - e.g. Honeywell Aerospace, Hayashi Telempu Na, Relco Locomotives Inc.
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 Manganese, Chromium, Nickel, Copper; nearby reporters include Ball Brass & Aluminum Foundry. Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC 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 Tower Automotive TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · TRACE-CARC · lead Manganese) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Tower Automotive totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Auburn, IN, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2020–2023 (4 years). NAICS 336370 · Transportation Equipment. 0.0% of Dekalb TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Nslc Southern Inc - Hermanville Facility (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC · lead Manganese. 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