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ChemScore report card 2025
Arkema
Total Score
11/100
Ranking
27/40
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
Action points
- Report on the company’s global hazardous substances portfolio (beyond EU/US) on a substance-by-substance basis
- Introduce a lower reporting threshold (<1000 ppm) for the hazardous substances present in the company’s products and include more hazard classes as well as report the effected revenue on a more detailed level, substance by substance
- Include more hazard classes and report the produced volumes of hazardous substances leaving the facilities on a more detailed level, substance by substance
Phase-out of persistent chemicals
1 out of 25 points
Action points
- Start reporting and/or limit the share of revenue from persistent chemicals considerably
- Stop producing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
- Stop buying/importing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
Product portfolio
0 out of 25 points
Number of registered hazardous chemicals
44
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Candidate List
6
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Authorisation List and/or POP substances
1
Number of persistent chemicals
14
Product portfolio transparency
64%
Action points
- Reduce the number of hazardous substances the company is using, producing and placing on the market
Safer solutions
3 out of 25 points
Action points
- Publicly commit not to develop or market new products containing hazardous substances. As a minimum, REACH candidate list substances must be excluded from such products
- The company has a public commitment to increase the share of sales of safer solutions, but it should increase it even more
- Start disclosing the share of R&D expenditures that are targeted towards the development of safer solutions
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Company facts
Founded
2004
Headquarters
Colombes, France
Revenue
9.9 billion USD
ISIN
FR0010313833
Category
Basic
Paint / Coating
Other
Plastic / Rubber / Fibres
CSRD
Pollution reporting
