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Facility ID: 27261HGHPN255BE

Facility Name and Address:
KAO SPECIALTIES AMERICAS LLC
243 WOODBINE ST
HIGH POINT, NC 27260

Parent Company: KAO AMERICA INC

Industry: Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211)
Chemical: Ethylene glycol

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Reporting Year Section 8.10: Newly Implemented Source Reduction Activity Section 8.10: Methods to Identify Activity Section 8.11: Optional Pollution Prevention Information*
2016 Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Using best practice for handling this material

2012 Other Barriers to Source Reduction - This ethylene glycol is a byproduct of the air scrubbing device, we use for ethylene oxide and propylene oxide this stream cannot be reduced.

2011 Barriers to P2 - This material is generated though the scrubbing and degassing of ethylene oxide . Approximately 380 pounds of glycol is generated daily in around one hundred thousand gallons of waste water. It is economically impractical to recover this material.
2009 Other Environmental Practices - The past 2008 emissions did not take into effect the efficiency of the waste water treatment plant of 70% reduction in COD content,
2005 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1996 Source Reduction:: W21: Instituted procedures to ensure that materials do not stay in inventory beyond
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.
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