EPA TRI Facility · Plastics and Rubber
Penn Foam Corp
Allentown, PA
- Total releases
- 86 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Penn Foam Corp: how the 101 lbs splits
101 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 101 lbs 100.0%
Penn Foam Corp's 101 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: Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers).
TRACE volume AIR pathway CARC-HEAVY
Penn Foam Corp is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Allentown, PA, in the plastics and rubber sector. It reported 15 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2024, and 86 lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 16,703 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Pennsylvania's 1,010 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Penn Foam Corp is pounds #825 and chemical-count #939 at 86 lbs. Max Environmental -- Yukon Facility leads reported pounds (34.8M lbs) at 18 chemicals (chemical-count #24). Keystone Cement Co leads chemical count at 53 chemicals (155.4K lbs, pounds #149). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Aerc Recycling Solutions; Vorteq Coil Finishers LLC; Acme Cryogenics Inc.; Stanley Works Allentown. Similar-scale Plastics and Rubber peers outside Pennsylvania: All State Industries Inc.; Fibre Tech Inc.; Spartech LLC; Plastomer Corp. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers).
Penn Foam Corp stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 1 chemical · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 86 lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include All State Industries Inc. and Fibre Tech Inc..
Penn Foam Corp vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
86 lbs 36th percentile higher than 36% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Penn Foam Corp in the Plastics and Rubber sector extract
Among the 1,504 Plastics and Rubber facilities in this database, Penn Foam Corp reports the 1,154th-largest volume (86 lbs). Scale peers outside Pennsylvania include All State Industries Inc. and Fibre Tech Inc..
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Penn Foam Corp Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Penn Foam Corp releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 101 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases decreased by 17% (18 lbs to 15 lbs).
Penn Foam Corp: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Penn Foam Corp year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 17% 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: Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 18 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 18 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 18 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 17 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 15 lbs | 1 |
| 2024 | 15 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2024). 1 of 1 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) | 101 lbs | Carcinogen |
Penn Foam Corp · AIR-pathway site
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Similar Plastics and Rubber Facilities
Other Plastics and Rubber facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Pennsylvania - e.g. All State Industries Inc., Fibre Tech Inc., Spartech LLC.
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 Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers); nearby reporters include Aerc Recycling Solutions. Penn Foam Corp stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-HEAVY 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 Penn Foam Corp TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CARC-HEAVY · lead Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Penn Foam Corp totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Allentown, PA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 326150 · Plastics and Rubber. 0.0% of Lehigh TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Next-Gen Supply Group Inc (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Penn Foam Corp stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-HEAVY · lead Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers). 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