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Arkema


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Franklin Resources, IncUnited States of America5Cercle Fin.
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« ETHICAL » RATING OF ARKEMA , group and subsidiaries
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3%
Job: 3% of company's jobs cut since 1998
3
Delinquency: 3 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency

Advertising & marketing

year
dubious practice : image
source
2006slogan: Arkema. The world is our inspiration.;

Made by

year
employees
<>
social impact : country
source
2007
-48
Internal restructuring: Arkema restructures its factory of Menet Saint in Marseilles.: France
Les Echos
2007
-22
Merger/Acquisition: Reorganization before the sale of the activity of primary amines production of Feuchy (Pas de Calais).: France
Les Echos
2007
-100
Internal restructuring: Arkema reorganizes its Carling-Saint-Avold plant.: France
Les Echos
2007
-48
Internal restructuring: Reorganization of the factory of Lacq-Mourenx specialized in the chemistry of the hydrogen sulphide.: France
Les Echos
2006
18400
2006
-57
Closure/Bankruptcy: France
2006
-91
Closure/Bankruptcy: France
Les Echos
2006
-123
Closure/Bankruptcy: Fermeture du sites de Villers Saint Paul (Oise), l'unité de caoutchouc synthétiques de Carling et de granulés de polypropylène de Dieuze en Moselle.: France
Les Echos
2005
18600

Environmental impact

year
country : consequences
source
2008France : " The Nanotechnologies are one of the major axes of research identified by research Corporate ARKEMA. In this set of themes, the carbon nanotubes held all the attention of the company which launched out in the marketing of these products, under the name of Graphistrength." mark; Many a nanoparticules, according to their size and of their form, can penetrate in the human cells, the brain, and s' there to accumulate. Several studies show their in vitro toxicity and in vivo.
2006France Les Echos

Financials

yearfinancial misdemeanorsalesincome source
2007 The European Commission has sent formal antitrust charges to 'a number' of companies, of which Arkema, Kemira and Akzo Nobels units, in the sodium chlorate sector over alleged cartel activity between 1994 and 2000. Sodium chlorate is mainly used as a bleaching agent in the pulp and paper industry.     AFX
2006 The European Commission fined Solvay, Arkema, Ausimont, Akzo Nobel, Kemira, Air Liquide, Degussa 388 million euros for cartel on the peroxide market between 1994 and 2000. Peroxydes are used to bleach the paper pulp and textiles. The companies "exchanged information, limited their production, shared markets and customers and fixed and controlled the prices".    
2006   0.04   billion Eu€
2006 Arkema, Degussa, ICI, Lucite and Quinn Barlo formed a cartel and agreed on "prices for acrylic glass, that they fixed and supervised, and exchanged important confidential information on the commercial level in the European economic Area (EEE) between 1997 and 2002" estimated the European Commission which imposed them a 340 million euros fine. Acrylic glass is largely used, in particular in cars, DVD, lenses, domestic appliances, electronics, bath-tubs and showers.     Cercle Fin.
2005   5.7-0.43   billion Eu€
2005   5.71-0.43   billion Eu€
2004   5.32-0.62   billion Eu€
2003   5.05-0.38   billion Eu€

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