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Where Can I Get Free Us Chemical Production Volume Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage
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What do the CDR volume fields look like?
Each chemical-site record splits the headline number into components you can sum or keep separate:
- 2019 DOMESTIC PV - principal-year domestic manufacture volume in pounds (column labels are cycle-specific; the 2020 cycle uses 2019).
- 2019 IMPORT PV - principal-year volume imported into the United States, in pounds.
- 2019 PV - aggregated production volume, domestic plus imported (calculated).
- 2019 NATIONALLY AGGREGATED PV - per-chemical national total, published as a calculated value or a range where confidentiality applies.
Around those numbers sit processing and use detail: industrial sector codes (48 options), industrial function categories (117 options), consumer/commercial product categories (97 options), physical forms among seven options, maximum concentration ranges, worker-exposure counts reported as coded ranges, and a flag for chemicals used in products intended for children. Two caveats shape every analysis. Confidential business information appears only as ranges or accession numbers, with 'NKRA' (Not Known or Reasonably Ascertainable) marking unreported fields. And processing/use information covers activities in the final year of each cycle only, so it does not describe the whole reporting window.
What if four-year cycles are too coarse for your question?
For monthly physical flows, EIA's refinery and blender net production series track naphtha used as petrochemical feedstock nationally back to 1983 (series ID MNFRPUS2) and by PADDs 1-5 generally from 1993, downloadable as .xls or via EIA API v2 with a free key.
What can you build once you have the volumes?
Three workflows dominate, and all three start from CDR's site coordinates. Market sizing joins CDR site rows to the Economic Census: filter NAICS2022 to 3251-prefix basic chemical codes, pull ESTAB, EMP, PAYANN and RCPTOT per county, then weight counties by CDR site volumes to rank local markets. Supply-chain mapping uses the parent-company chain - standardized parent names plus domestic and foreign D-U-N-S numbers - to roll site-level pounds up to corporate footprints. Exposure and ESG screening pairs CDR volumes with TRI releases at matched sites, using TRI's fugitive and stack air emission columns alongside underground injection split into Class I and Class II-V wells.
Mind the join keys. CDR carries EPA Facility Registry IDs and NAICS codes per site; TRI carries TRIFD and FRS IDs. Both report pounds, but they measure different things - a plant can post large volumes with small releases or the reverse. Keep the two series separate in any model and state which one a number came from.
Where does this fit in the commodity chemicals data stack?
If your work extends beyond the United States, Europe's mirror image is the EEA European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR): over 60,000 industrial sites, 2007-2023, free under CC-BY 4.0 in 16 CSV extracts - emissions rather than production volumes, but the closest structural analogue. For the full landscape including pricing, property references and process data, see the commodity-chemicals data guide.
Where to go next
Start with the dataset page for a full field-by-field breakdown of the CDR tables, then read the pillar post, the commodity-chemicals data guide, which places CDR among all 27 pooled datasets in the slice. The best commodity-chemicals datasets ranking is the shortlist view if you are comparing sources rather than building a pipeline, and the commodity-chemicals data hub links every list, comparison and persona page for the sector.
Pick up where this leaves off
Every one of these ships with sample rows before you commit to anything.
EPA Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Database
EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data
Census Data API — 2022 Economic Census Basic
EPA TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory
European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR) Data
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Does CDR include company and location detail?
Yes. Each record identifies standardized foreign or domestic parent companies with Dun & Bradstreet numbers, individual manufacture or import sites with name, address, latitude/longitude, EPA Facility Registry ID and NAICS code, plus chemical identity by CAS Registry Number or accession number. That makes it the most comprehensive public source for mapping who makes which chemical where in the United States.
What is the difference between CDR and TRI data?
CDR reports how much of a chemical a company manufactures or imports, in pounds, every four years at site level. TRI reports what facilities release to air, water and land or transfer off-site, annually at facility-by-chemical level back to 1987. They answer different questions and should stay separate in any model even though both units are pounds.