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Solvay
| Headquarters location: 33, rue du Prince Albert Bruxelles |  | Tel. 32-2-509-6111 Job offers, investor relations: www.solvay.com Stock:  |
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« ETHICAL » RATING OF SOLVAY
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| Job: 3% of company's jobs cut since 1998 |
| Environment: 1 major pollution(s) |
| Delinquency: 3 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 1 offshore financial center(s) |
| Net profit: more than 3 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 |
| Influence: 5 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying |
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World locations & Manufacturing |
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year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2002 | 30302 | |  |
| 1998 | 33104 | | |
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| 1999 | Brazil : Failure to treat dioxin-contaminated waste, knowlingly selling contaminated cattle feed and food products world-wide | Greenpeace  |
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| 2000 | Limit the legal liability, no price control, no list of preferred drugs, hampers the approval and marketing of generic drugs, no drug imports, no limit to drug advertising… : Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America : : US government, congress, senate translate | Washington. |
| 2000 | Market access (through WTO), cheaper energy (through energy liberalization in Europe); uniform rules to enable the patenting of plants and animals (through TRIPS); prevent advert legislation on chemicals, self-regulation instead; : CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) : : European Commission translate | Corporate . |
| 2000 | Lift the ban on bovine growth hormons, the moratorium on GMOs : EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations) : : European Commission translate | EFPIA |
| 1999 | Access to public services (privatization through GATS) : ERT (European Roundtable of Industrialists) : : European Commission translate | Corporate . |
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| 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". |
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| 2006 |
| 9.4 | 0.79 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 2005 |
Formal charges from the European Commission for forming a cartel in the market for hydrogen peroxyde |
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| 2002 |
| 7.92 | 0.5 | | | billion Eu€ | |
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Market-sharing and price-fixing cartels affecting vitamin products in Europe: 9,10 million euros fine. |
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| 2001 |
| 8.73 | 0.4 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 2000 |
| 8.86 | 0.44 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 1999 |
| 7.87 | 0.42 | | | billion Eu€ | |
| 1998 |
| 8.73 | 0.44 | | | billion US$ | |
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