EPA TRI Facility · Chemicals
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility
Holden, MA · Parent: Avient Corp
- Total releases
- 79.6K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 3
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility: how the 81.4K lbs splits
81.4K lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 81.3K lbs 99.9%
- Air Releases 59 lbs 0.1%
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's 81.4K lbs Form-R total is OFFSITE - off-site transfers is 99.9% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 0.1%. Leading chemical by pounds: Zinc compounds.
LIGHT volume OFFSITE pathway CLEAN
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Holden, MA, in the chemicals sector. It reported 1.8K lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2024, and 79.6K lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 5,074 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Massachusetts's 373 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility is pounds #44 and chemical-count #107 at 79.6K lbs. Solutia Inc leads reported pounds (2.5M lbs) at 9 chemicals (chemical-count #10). Astro Chemicals Inc leads chemical count at 17 chemicals (5.9K lbs, pounds #154). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Inner-Tite Corp.; Komtek Forge LLC; Saint-Gobain Abrasives & Saint -Gobain Ceramics & Plastics; Holden Trap Rock. Similar-scale Chemicals peers outside Massachusetts: Electri-Glass Inc.; Ineos Oligomers Chocolate Bayou; Engineered Polymer Solutions; Dart Container Corp of Pennsylvania. Other Avient Corp sites in this extract: Avient Corp; Glasforms Inc; Avient Colorants USA LLC - Albion Facility; Avient Corp. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Zinc compounds; Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region); Antimony compounds.
Compare Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility with
Nearest reporters in Massachusetts
- Inner-Tite Corp. Holden · 28 lbs
- Komtek Forge LLC Worcester · 171 lbs
- Saint-Gobain Abrasives & Saint -Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Worcester · 75.9K lbs
- Holden Trap Rock Holden · 0 lbs
Similar-scale Chemicals sites elsewhere: Electri-Glass Inc. (TN) · Ineos Oligomers Chocolate Bayou (TX) · Engineered Polymer Solutions (OR)
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (99.9% off-site transfers) across 3 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 79.6K lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Electri-Glass Inc. and Ineos Oligomers Chocolate Bayou.
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
80K lbs Top 20% higher than 80% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility: Zinc compounds-led volume
Among the 3,917 Chemicals facilities in this database, Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility reports the 1,033rd-largest volume (79.6K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Zinc compounds alone is 94.7% of the total. Scale peers outside Massachusetts include Electri-Glass Inc. and Ineos Oligomers Chocolate Bayou.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's pounds in one chemical - here Zinc compounds at 94.7%. Not a toxicity score.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's total reported releases fell from 29.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 3.0 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's off-site transfers fell from 29.8 thousand lb in 2022 to 2.9 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's air releases fell from 16 lb in 2022 to 5 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility's chemicals reported fell from 2 in 2022 to 1 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 81.4K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases decreased by 79% (8.5K lbs to 1.8K lbs).
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · OFFSITE pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 79% from 2019 to 2024). 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: Zinc compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8.5K lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 17.0K lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 21.4K lbs | 3 |
| 2022 | 29.9K lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 3.0K lbs | 1 |
| 2024 | 1.8K lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2024). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Zinc compounds | 77.0K lbs | - |
| Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 2.9K lbs | - |
| Antimony compounds | 1.4K lbs | - |
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility · OFFSITE-pathway site
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility on cumulative reported pounds (79.6K lbs) and distinct chemical count (3). Release-pound peers include Electri-Glass Inc., Cadillac Casting Inc, Triumph Foods LLC. Chemical-count peers include Industrial C&s of Pr LLC Arecibo Plant, Island Litho Corp., Fenwal International Inc. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
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Similar chemical count
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Other Avient Corp Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Avient Corp, Glasforms Inc, Avient Colorants USA LLC - Albion Facility.
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 Zinc compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Antimony compounds; nearby reporters include Inner-Tite Corp.. Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE 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 Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility TRI extract (LIGHT · OFFSITE · CLEAN · lead Zinc compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Holden, MA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 325991 · Chemicals. 5.4% of Worcester TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Electri-Glass Inc. (Δ 59 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden Facility stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE pathway · CLEAN · lead Zinc 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