CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: Invest in Moselle’s chemical industry

► nearly 2,800 jobs and 40 companies

► 54.3% of R&D expenses in Lorraine are made by local authorities, compared with only 37.4% on a national level.

(source Valoris Lorraine).

• The chemical sector includes coking and refining as well as the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, representing globally 40 companies and 2,800 employees in Moselle as of 2009. • The chemical sector also encloses salt industry, engineering, R&D, conditioning, transport, whole sale and waste recycling.• This means a total of 6,500 employees in nearly 125 companies in the whole Lorraine region.

Zoom on two innovative projects in the Moselle chemical sector

BIOSOLVE CHIMIE Company is setting up in Dieuze in order to be closer to its European customers

The Israeli BIO LAB group is setting up a new production unit in Dieuze. According to Michel Ehrenfreund, CEO of BIOSOLVE CHIMIE, the company’s activity will be "the production and distribution of solvents of high purity, formulations and reagents for the pharmaceutical, bio-technological, chemical industry as well as for the research sector". The setting up of BIOSOLVE company in the former KOHLER facilities in Dieuze, allowing the creation of 40 to 50 jobs, has been accompanied by MOSELLE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

Photo : © BIO LAB – Reproduction of photos prohibited – All rights reserved

7x4 Pharma invests 50 million euros in Lorraine

Early 2011, the German 7x4 Pharma Company (Kohl group) announced its intention to create a medication blister packaging unit (individual + weekly) on the Europôle Business Park in Hambach (Moselle, Lorraine). Thanks to this new system, precise quantities of drugs can be packed up as prescribed by the doctor. Thus, by setting up in the Moselle, the Group wishes to enter the French market. This new plant should generate 300 new jobs with a total investment of 50 million euros. At present, the Kohl Group totals some 1,300 employees and achieves a turnover of 920 million euros.

Photo: © www.7x4-pharma.com – Reproduction of photos prohibited – All rights reserved.

Major Companies in the chemical sector in Moselle

Sources : Eco Lorraine OnLine, Kompass – 2011

Environment: an efficient industrial waste treatment system

The Moselle benefits from brand new, efficient industrial waste treatment facilities which are evenly spread over the whole territory. Numerous design offices offer their services to industrial companies for impact studies, studies for installations subject to declaration/authorization, pollution control measures or certifications.

Companies in the environment sector, belonging to the chemical industry in Moselle

Research laboratories / examples of private research laboratories

CRDE (Eastern France Research & Development Cluster)
Arkema / Saint-Avold
Active in the acrylic chemistry sector (development of new acrylic monomers), proposes services in various sectors such as water treatment, corrosion, piloting (organic synthesis, distillation) or even the implementation of new analysis methods.

Marienau Pyrolysis Centre
ArcelorMittal / Forbach
Leader in the coking sector.
- Pyrolysis technology, control and diagnosis of industrial furnaces.
- Laboratory tests.

Source : VALORIS LORRAINE : "Invest in the chemical industry in Lorraine" – April 2011

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