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r <br />Pacific Coast Producers Can Manufacturing Division fabricates tin cans for their <br />food processing plant located at 32 N. Tokay St., Lodi, CA. The can plant <br />operates year round and currently employs 49 people. <br />The initial step in the fabrication process involves coating tin plates with enamel. <br />The enamel is applied to the tin by a machine referred to as the "coater". The <br />sheets are then baked at 400 degrees Fahrenheit to cure the enamel. After the <br />enamel has been cured, the sheets of tin are cut and shaped into cylinders or can <br />bodies. The final step involves attaching a circular enamel coated tin piece to one <br />end of the cylinder with an adhesive. Once the end has been attached to the <br />cylinder, circular indentations are made to increase the strength of the can. <br />13 tl'i I W 0 Elio <br />Two solvent wastestreams are generated at the can plant. A sludge is generated <br />from cleaning the coater machine when the enamel applied to the tin sheets is <br />changed. This wastestream is no longer commonly referred to as "lights" as stated <br />in the previous reports. <br />Another solvent wastestream is generated form cleaning machine parts and from <br />cleaning a series of chains used to catch the enamel over spray during the <br />application of enamel to the welded seams on the can bodies. This wastestream is <br />no longer referred to as "heavies". Both wastestreams are classified by Pacific <br />Coast Producers as "Methyl Isobutyl Ketone". <br />In 1992, Romic Chemical Corporation, 2081 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto, CA 94303, <br />manifested 19.2 tons of this waste offsite. <br />Absorbent is generated from cleaning up incidental spills throughout the facility. <br />As per Ted Meyers, the contaminated absorbent, regardless what it is <br />contaminated with, is incorporated into the "solid" hazardous wastestream. Pacific <br />Coast Producers did not furnish any disposal documentation for this wastestream <br />this day of inspection. <br />Waste oil is generated from the maintenance of forklifts and miscellaneous <br />machinery. However, Pacific Coast Producers was unable to furnish <br />documentation to demonstrate the quantities generated from either wastestream. <br />The oil generated is transferred by Pacific Coast Producers employees from 835 S. <br />Stockton St. to the forklift shop at 941 S. Stockton St. for pick up from Evergreen <br />Environmental. In 1992, 7.1 tons of waste oil was removed from Pacific Coast <br />Producers at 941 S. Stockton St. <br />3 <br />