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Facility ID: 06492BYKCH524SO

Facility Name and Address:
BYK USA INC
524 S CHERRY ST
WALLINGFORD, CT 06492

Parent Company: BYK USA INC

Industry: Paint and Coating Manufacturing (325510)
Chemical: Xylene (mixed isomers)

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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*
2024 Source Reduction:: S33: Improved containment or material handling operations
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
S33: Added new storages tanks and vertical condensers to reactors to improve processing conditions.

2023 Source Reduction:: S21: Optimized process conditions to increase efficiency[-0-4%]
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Source Reduction - campaign scheduling to reduce amount of material needed as a cleaning solvent.
2022 Source Reduction:: S21: Optimized process conditions to increase efficiency
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
S21: more efficient recirculation lines and conservation vents

Source Reduction - engineering meetings to develop better equipment to control emissions
2021 Source Reduction:: S35: Other improvements to inventory and material management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
S35: Campaigned batches to use less as a cleaning solvent

2020 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices[-5-14%]
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
W19: Improved batch sequencing and rework process.

Source Reduction - collaboration between EHS production and planning to campaign batches where applicable.
2019 Source Reduction:: W14: Changed production schedule to minimize equipment and feedstock changeovers
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
W14: Campaigned batches to minimize cleanouts between batches when possible.

1992 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W49: Other raw material modifications
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
1991 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Source Reduction:: W39: Other spill or leak prevention
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.
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