A Bristol and a Southington manufacturer will have to pay a total of $98,291 in penalties and investments for violating federal rules to prevent chemical accidents, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Bristol-based Metal Finishing Technologies will pay a $12,400 penalty and a $54,000 facility upgrade to eliminate its use of chlorine gas, after EPA found 10 violations of the Clean Air Act at an inspection of the facility in December 2011.
Southington-based Northeastern Shaped Wire will pay a $5,626 penalty and a $26,625 investment in a state-of-the-art hazard chemical detection and alarm system, after failing to submit timely chemical reporting forms for ammonia, chromium, nickel, and copper in its annual Toxics Release Inventory.
The two Connecticut penalties were among five EPA doled out Tuesday to New England companies. PCA Systems of Adams, Mass.; Holland Company of Adams, Mass.; and JCI Jones Chemicals of Merrimack, N.H. also were penalized for chemical violations.
