Air Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Montgomery County Food Container Production Facility Enter into Consent Order
April 16, 2026
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Genpak LLC (“Genpak”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit.
The CO provides that Genpak operates a food container production facility in Montgomery County, Alabama.
ADEM is stated to have issued a Major Source Operating Permit (“Permit”) to the facility.
The facility is stated to have submitted the third quarter of 2025 report containing the VOC emissions values, blowing agent usage, and a copy of the second quarter of 2025 blowing agent retention analysis, which indicated that Genpak had exceeded the VOC emissions limitations, prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) thresholds, and failed to perform the retention analysis required for the third quarter of 2025. Additional review is stated to have indicated that the facility also exceeded its emission limitation in the second quarter. The fourth quarter results are stated to have indicated that the facility was still in violation of its VOC emission limitation.
Genpak is stated to have provided a response to ADEM’s Notice of Violation and indicated it was taking measures to reduce its emissions and return to compliance during December 2025.
Genpak neither admits nor denies ADEM’s contentions.
A civil penalty of $62,200 is assessed.
A copy of the CO can be found here.
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