On December 4, 2023, EPA sent a stipulated penalty demand for $51,000 to Trelleborg Coated Systems US, Inc. for violations of an administrative Clean Air Act Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) that EPA had filed in March of 2023. Trelleborg paid the penalty on December 15, 2023. Until October 4, 2023, Trelleborg operated an equipment coating facility in New Haven, Connecticut that primarily performed urethane coating and laminating processes on various fabrics to achieve water and chemical repellant and flame-retardant properties. The CAFO alleged that the company violated its Clean Air Act New Source Review Permit to Construct and Operate a Stationary Source. Under the CAFO, the company had agreed to pay a penalty and comply with conditions in the CAFO, including maintaining operating logs for the enclosures, and paying stipulated penalties if it failed to come into compliance or permanently shut down all its coating operations at its New Haven facility by July 1, 2023. Trelleborg was late in shutting down its coating operations, thereby triggering the stipulated penalty provisions of the CAFO.
On March 23, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed an administrative settlement concerning Trelleborg Coated Systems US, Inc. (Trelleborg). Trelleborg has a manufacturing facility in New Haven, Connecticut that primarily performs urethane coating and laminating processes on various fabrics to achieve water and chemical repellant and flame-retardant