About the company
Arkema is a specialty chemicals and advanced materials company headquartered near Paris, France. The company was created in 2004 when French oil giant Total restructured its chemicals business. Arkema operates through four distinct business segments: adhesive solutions, advanced materials, coating solutions and intermediates. They cater to industries such as construction, packaging, chemicals, automotive, electronics, food, and pharmaceuticals. Arkema has 21,150 employees in more than 55 countries, 13 research centres worldwide, and a total of 157 production plants in Europe, North America, Asia and the rest of the world.
Transparency
7 out of 25 points
Phase-out of persistent chemicals
1 out of 25 points
Product portfolio
0 out of 25 points
To reach a final score in this category, we assess the company’s transparency in chemical production. Lower transparency makes it harder to achieve a good score. If the product portfolio transparency is very low, a company producing just one or even zero toxic chemicals (according to available data) might receive the same poor score as one producing 50.
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