EPA TRI Facility · Food
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon
Loudon, TN · Parent: Primary Products Finance LLC
- Total releases
- 506.8K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 8
- Carcinogens
- 2
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon: how the 506.8K lbs splits
506.8K lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 477.8K lbs 94.3%
- Off-site Transfers 27.4K lbs 5.4%
- Water Discharges 1.6K lbs 0.3%
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's 506.8K lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 94.3% of the bar. Next segment: off-site transfers at 5.4%. Leading chemical by pounds: Acetaldehyde.
Carcinogen-classified pounds vs other reported pounds
Same cumulative TRI total as above, split by EPA/IARC carcinogen classification on each chemical: pounds share, not chemical count. Classification is not a site health-risk score.
MID volume AIR pathway CARC-HEAVY
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Loudon, TN, in the food sector. It reported 98.2K lbs of releases across 6 chemicals in 2023, and 506.8K lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 1,937 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Tennessee's 595 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Primary Products Ingredients Loudon is pounds #65 and chemical-count #72 at 506.8K lbs. Nyrstar Clarksville Inc leads reported pounds (72.9M lbs) at 13 chemicals (chemical-count #31). Tradebe Treatment & Recycling of Tn leads chemical count at 75 chemicals (6.3M lbs, pounds #13). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Viskase Corp; Real Alloy Recycling LLC; Malibu Boats LLC; Protomet Corp. Similar-scale Food peers outside Tennessee: Darling Ingredients Inc.; Dawson Oilseeds Complex; Pinnacle Premix; Keystone Foods. Other Primary Products Finance LLC sites in this extract: Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC - Decatur; Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Acetaldehyde; Ammonia; Methanol; Formic acid.
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon stamps MID volume with a dominant AIR pathway (94.3% air releases) across 8 chemicals · 2 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 506.8K lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Darling Ingredients Inc. and Dawson Oilseeds Complex.
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
507K lbs Top 7% higher than 93% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon: Acetaldehyde-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Primary Products Ingredients Loudon reports the 236th-largest volume, placing it in the top 11.9% of its sector. Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Acetaldehyde alone is 63.5% of the total. Carcinogen-classified chemicals make up 63.5% of the reported pounds, not just of the chemical count. Scale peers outside Tennessee include Darling Ingredients Inc. and Dawson Oilseeds Complex.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's pounds in one chemical - here Acetaldehyde at 63.5%. Not a toxicity score.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's total reported releases fell from 98.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 98.2 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's water releases fell from 322 lb in 2022 to 272 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's off-site transfers rose from 3.6 thousand lb in 2022 to 4.1 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Primary Products Ingredients Loudon's air releases fell from 95.0 thousand lb in 2022 to 93.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon Form-R facts
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96% less than the comparison
2.0× more than the comparison
Comparison reflects reported pounds and chemical counts, not toxicity or health risk. Averages cover facilities reporting any release.
How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Primary Products Ingredients Loudon releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 506.8K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 14% (114.0K lbs to 98.2K lbs).
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon: annual Form-R pounds
MID site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Primary Products Ingredients Loudon year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 14% 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: Acetaldehyde.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 114.0K lbs | 8 |
| 2020 | 94.3K lbs | 7 |
| 2021 | 101.4K lbs | 7 |
| 2022 | 98.9K lbs | 6 |
| 2023 | 98.2K lbs | 6 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 2 of 8 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaldehyde | 321.9K lbs | Carcinogen |
| Ammonia | 116.7K lbs | - |
| Methanol | 43.3K lbs | - |
| Formic acid | 17.5K lbs | - |
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 6.3K lbs | - |
| Hydrogen sulfide | 961 lbs | - |
| Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 97 lbs | - |
| Benzene | 61 lbs | Carcinogen |
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Primary Products Ingredients Loudon
Closest other reporters in Tennessee - including Viskase Corp, Real Alloy Recycling LLC, Malibu Boats LLC, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 594 other reporting facilities in Tennessee.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Tennessee - e.g. Darling Ingredients Inc., Dawson Oilseeds Complex, Pinnacle Premix.
Compare beyond Tennessee
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Primary Products Ingredients Loudon on cumulative reported pounds (506.8K lbs) and distinct chemical count (8). Release-pound peers include Unilin US Mdf, Darling Ingredients Inc., Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. Chemical-count peers include Prepa-South Coast Power Plant, Argos Puerto Rico Corp., US Tsubaki Automotive LLC. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
- Unilin US Mdf Mount Gilead, NC · Wood Products 506.8K lbs reported
- Darling Ingredients Inc. Jackson, MS · Food 507.0K lbs reported
- Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp Fairfield, CA · Fabricated Metals 506.5K lbs reported
- Cleveland-Cliffs Plate LLC Coatesville Facility Coatesville, PA · Primary Metals 507.2K lbs reported
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Primary Products Finance LLC Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC - Decatur, Primary Products Ingredients Americas 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 Acetaldehyde, Ammonia, Methanol, Formic acid; nearby reporters include Viskase Corp. Primary Products Ingredients Loudon stamps MID 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.
Use and verify this record
This Primary Products Ingredients Loudon TRI extract (MID · AIR · CARC-HEAVY · lead Acetaldehyde) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Loudon, TN, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 311221 · Food. 2.6% of Loudon TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Unilin US Mdf (Δ 54 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Primary Products Ingredients Loudon stamps MID volume · AIR pathway · CARC-HEAVY · lead Acetaldehyde. 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