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PFOA Stewardship Program Baseline Year Summary Report

Background

Contents, Definitions in Table 1 and Table 2

Table 1 - U.S. Operations

Table 2 - Non - U.S. Operations

Background

As part of their commitment to the 2010/15 PFOA Stewardship Program, the eight participating companies agreed to submit

baseline data on their facility emissions and product content of PFOA and related chemicals by October 31, 2006. Progress

toward the goals of the program, including a 95 percent reduction in emissions and product content by 2010, will be measured

against these baseline data.

EPA has summarized the baseline data submitted by all the participating companies in their public reports in the two tables

that appear below. Additional information may be obtained by viewing the specific company reports in the docket EPA-HQOPPT-2006-0621.

As a means of measuring reductions, the PFOA Stewardship Program Reporting Guidance suggested that individual companies

use year 2000 data as the baseline for their company's emissions and product content information. Companies that did not

have year 2000 data available were to use as a baseline the nearest year for which data were available. In addition, to

account for all of their operations or products, some companies used more than a single baseline year. Please note that these

tables present baseline year figures, not a report of current conditions.

Accompanying their baseline data submissions, two companies, 3M/Dyneon and DuPont, also submitted information on the

reductions in emissions and product content that they have already achieved. Both of these submissions can be found in docket

EPA-HQ-OPPT-2006-0621 as documents EPA-HQ-OPPT-2006-0621-0022 and EPA-HQ-OPPT-2006-0621-0019, respectively. All of

the companies will submit progress reports to the docket in October 2007 on reductions achieved to date from the baseline

year figures, and EPA will post tables summarizing those progress reports to this website.

Contents of Table 1 and Table 2

In the Stewardship Program, companies were requested to provide data on both their United States and global operations.

Table 1 contains data for manufacturing sites in the United States, and for products manufactured in the United States. Table 2

contains data for manufacturing sites located outside the United States, and for products that are manufactured outside the

United States. The tables are posted lower down on this page. Download the Baseline Summary Tables here in (PDF) (4 pp, 27.3

K)

Read more on the PFOA Stewardship Guidance Document for complete information on reporting.

Table 1 - U.S. Operations

Company Baseline

Year

Chemical

Category

Emissions Product Content

Releases to

all media

from FP and

Telomer

manufacturing

(kg)

kg of release

/ kg of

product

produced

Dispersions

(ppm wetweight basis)

Other

Fluoropolymers

(ppm dry-weight

basis)

Telomers (ppm dryweight basis, unless

stated otherwise)

Arkema 1999 PFOA and

Higher

Homologues

›10,000-

100,000

For FP

Production:

(›0.1-1)

kg/100 kg

›500-1,000 ›70-150 Not Applicable

Precursors Not Applicable

Asahi 2000

PFOA and

Higher

Homologues

5,230

For FP

Production:

<1 kg / 100

kg

1,364 CBI Not Applicable

Precursors Not Applicable

PFOA

30 kg

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Ciba 2002

(total for emissions and product content)

Higher

Homologues

27 kg

(total for emissions and product content)

Precursors

‹6 kg

(total for emissions and product content)

Clariant 2005 Not Applicable

Daikin 2000 PFOA CBI For FP

Production:

0.14 kg / 100

kg

420 14

1

(wet-weight basis) For Telomer

Production:

8.4E-6 kg /

100 kg

Precursors

and Higher

Homologues

CBI

For Telomer

Production:

0.034 kg / 100

kg

Not Applicable Not Applicable

11,000

(wet-weight basis)

DuPont 2000,

2003*,

2004**

PFOA 49,400 Not Reported 970* 340

496 kg (global total

product content in all

product produced)**

Direct precursors are

C8 Telomer A iodide

and the 8-2-8

Telomer B alcohol

ester of PFOA

Precursors CBI CBI Not Applicable Not Applicable

65 kg (global total

product content in all

product produced)**

3M/Dyneon 1999 PFOA 1,700

For FP

Production:

1 - 10 kg /

100 kg

4,300 Not Reported Not Applicable

Solvay

Solexis

2000

PFOA and

PFOA Salts

1000 - 10,000

For FP

Production:

0.1 - 1 kg/100

kg

1,500 - 1,700

(for PFOA, its

Salts, and

Higher

Homologues)

140 - 170 (for

PFOA, its Salts,

and Higher

Homologues)

Not Applicable

Higher

Homologues

1000 - 10,000

For FP

Production:

0.1 - 1 kg/100

kg

Precursors Not Applicable 0 0 0

*, **: In the DuPont report, different baseline years were used for certain product lines. Figures marked with asterisks (*, **)

correspond to the baseline years identified with matching asterisks in the second column.

"Not Applicable" indicates that the data element did not apply to the specific company's operations in the area covered by the

table.

"Not Reported" indicates that the company did not provide a figure for the specific data element.

Table 2 - Non - U.S. Operations

Company Baseline

Year

Chemical

Category

Emissions Product Content

Releases to

all media

from FP and

Telomer

manufacturing

(kg)

kg of release

/ kg of

product

produced

Dispersions

(ppm wetweight basis)

Other

Fluoropolymers

(ppm dry-weight

basis)

Telomers (ppm dryweight basis, unless

stated otherwise)

Arkema 1999 PFOA and

Higher

Homologues

›1,000-10,000 For FP

Production:

(>0.1-1)

kg/100 kg

Not Applicable ›70-150 Not Applicable

Precursors Not Applicable

Asahi 1999,

2000,

2004

PFOA and

Higher

Homologues

9,865 For FP

Production:

<1 kg/100 kg

1,800 CBI Negligible compared

to precursors
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Precursors 3,954 For Telomer

Production:

<1 kg/100 kg

Not Applicable Not Applicable Average: 50%

(range: 0-100%)

Ciba 2002 PFOA 456 kg (total for emissions and product content)

Higher

Homologues

438 kg (total for emissions and product content)

Precursors 378 kg (total for emissions and product content)

Clariant 2005

PFOA < 10

For Telomer

Production:

< ( 2.5E-4 kg

/ 100 kg )

Not Applicable Not Applicable

< 5

(total product

content)

Direct

Precursors < 5

For Telomer

Production:

< ( 1.25E-4 kg

/ 100 kg )

Not Applicable Not Applicable

< 100

(total product

content)

Daikin 2000 PFOA CBI For FP

Production:

0.27 kg/100

kg

2000 140 0.99 (wet-weight

basis)

For Telomer

Production:

8.4E-6 kg/100

kg

Precursors

and Higher

Homologues

CBI For Telomer

Production:

0.034 kg/100

kg

Not Applicable Not Applicable 10,000 (wet-weight

basis)

DuPont 2000,

2003*,

2004**

PFOA 19,500 Not Reported 1,040* 300 496 kg (global total

product content in all

product produced)**

Direct precursors are

C8 Telomer A iodide

and the 8-2-8

Telomer B alcohol

ester of PFOA

Precursors CBI CBI Not Applicable Not Applicable 65 kg (global total

product content in all

product produced)**

3M/Dyneon 2000

PFOA 14,400

For FP

Production:

<1 kg/100 kg

1,600 Not Reported Not Applicable

Solvay

Solexis

Not Applicable

*, **: In the DuPont report, different baseline years were used for certain product lines. Figures marked with asterisks (*, **)

correspond to the baseline years identified with matching asterisks in the second column.

"Not Applicable" indicates that the data element did not apply to the specific company's operations in the area covered by the

table.

"Not Reported" indicates that the company did not provide a figure for the specific data element.