This report documents the use and creation of reportable substances at Honeywell’s Amherstburg, Ontario site during 2010, under Ontario’s Toxics Reduction Act.

The TRA’s 2010 list of reportable substances includes sulphuric acid and arsenic. Honeywell’s Amherstburg site uses sulphuric acid as a raw material for its manufacturing process, and arsenic is removed as a contaminant from calcium fluoride (a naturally occurring mined compound which is another raw material in its manufacturing process).

The Honeywell Amherstburg site manufactures hydrogen fluoride and hydrofluoric acid. Hydrogen fluoride (anhydrous HF) is used to manufacture environmentally safer fluorocarbon products, fluoropolymers, and chemical derivatives. It is also used in refinery alkylation, and in a variety of other processes. Hydrofluoric acid (aqueous HF) is used in stainless steel and titanium pickling, glass etching and frosting, quartz purification, chemical milling, rare metal processing, and as a feedstock for chemical derivatives.

To read the full TRA report for Honeywell’s Amherstburg, Ontario site, click here.