SOLVAY OPERATIONS FRANCE

Listed in a source registry

France INSEE Sirene / INPI RNE state register (annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr)

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 21 official records from 14 official sources are on file. 2 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• The inspection report describes the site: La société SOLVAY est spécialisée dans la production de carbonate et bicarbonate de soude. (record type: facility-activity-described) [official record; status green] The inspection report describes the site: La société SOLVAY est spécialisée dans la production de carbonate et bicarbonate de soude.. A state inspector wrote this after standing on the site, so it describes what the plant actually does, not what its own website claims. checked 2026-10-20. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• inspection-follow-up (record type: inspection-follow-up) [official record; status amber] Inspection 2025-10-23: 5 control points, 1 with follow-up: 3. Liste des substances PFAS: proposed Demande de justificatif à l'exploitant (request to the operator for supporting documents), 3 mois. The inspector checked each regulatory point and wrote down which ones need a follow-up. A request for documents is an open question, not a proven breach; the report does not say how it was resolved later. checked 2026-10-20. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1997. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 2026-08-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
• GMP certificate from a medicines agency (record type: gmp-certified) [official record; status green] A medicines regulator inspected the site and confirmed it may manufacture medicines. effective since 2025-07-24. EudraGMDP, EU register of GMP certificates (EMA)
• Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-09-07. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
• financials-published (record type: financials-published) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025: revenue €202.5M, profit -€26.4M. Lets you size the supplier against your own volume: the figure comes from accounts filed with the state, not from a claim on a website. effective since 2025-12-31. INPI/BCE published accounts (data.economie.gouv.fr)
• Registered feed-sector operator (record type: registered-feed-operator) [official record; status green] On the state register of feed-sector operators. A record, not a permit. checked 2026-10-26. French Ministry of Agriculture (DGAL), register of feed-sector operators under EU Regulation 183/2005
• Site address listed in a government regulator's register (record type: facility-registered) [official record; status green] Shows the regulator records a site of this company at a named address. A registration is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-10-15. European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR / IED), European Environment Agency
• Listed in the national industrial register as an industrial site (record type: industrial-site-registered; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] The country's industrial register lists this company as holding a working industrial establishment, with its own registry number and activity code. A trading office does not get one. Open the source for the entry. effective since 2024-12-31. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)
• Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. checked 2026-10-09. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• EU customs identifier (EORI) active (record type: export-registered-eori) [official record; status green] An EORI number identifies the company to EU customs for imports, exports and transit. A valid number does not show that any shipment took place and is not a licence to export a particular product. checked 2026-07-30. EU EORI validation (European Commission)
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-07-30. OpenSanctions
• Files its annual accounts, latest on public record (record type: bodacc-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2026. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-07-30. BODACC (annuaire-entreprises)
• Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-07-30. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 2 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-07-30. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-07-30. OpenSanctions
• Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-address) [official record; status green] The address the company itself gave the register, so post and inspectors reach it there. checked 2026-08-10. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• Workforce size in the company register (record type: workforce-on-record) [official record; status green] Between 250 and 499 employees on the state record. One indication of the company's size as the register records it; it does not establish production capacity. effective since 2026-07-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
• EU VAT number valid for cross-border trade (record type: vat-valid) [official record; status green] The number is registered and active: we asked the EU VIES service and it answered yes. An invalid VAT number is the first sign an invoice comes from the wrong company. checked 2026-08-05. VIES (European Commission)
• registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Activity code in the state register: NAF 20.13B. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. checked 2026-10-15. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
• Registered business units on file (record type: registered-units) [official record; status green] 5 active business units of 9 on the register, 1 with a manufacturing activity code. The register lists how many sites the company runs. effective since 2026-10-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Shows the register lists the registration as active on the date we read it. It does not show how busy the business is. checked 2026-10-15. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
• A state inspector visited the site, on the official record (record type: facility-inspected) [official record; status green] Inspected 2025-10-23. An inspector came to the site on that date, so the site existed then and was not only licensed on paper. The visit itself does not show what was being made there. checked 2026-10-23. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)

Government supervision

Supervision records found: 4 site(s) under a permit, 0 other site(s) on the register, 7 dated inspection(s). A permit or a register entry is not an inspection; each record is listed above with its source.

Registered business units

5 active and 4 closed units in INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement); 1 active units carry a manufacturing activity code (section C of the activity classification). The activity code is what the register records for each site, not a finding that goods are made there.

• RUE GABRIEL PERI 54110 DOMBASLE-SUR-MEURTHE: SIRET 41457405300024, active, manufacturing activity code 20.13B (Fabrication d'autres produits chimiques inorganiques de base n.c.a.), opened 1998-12-30, staff 250-499 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• IMMEUBLE SILEX 2 SOLVAY 9 RUE DES CUIRASSIERS 69003 LYON: SIRET 41457405300099, active, head office, activity code 70.10Z (Activités des sièges sociaux), opened 2022-02-04. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 55140 SAINT-GERMAIN-SUR-MEUSE: SIRET 41457405300040, active, activity code 08.11Z (Extraction de pierres ornementales et de construction, de calcaire industriel, de gypse, de craie et d'ardoise), opened 2000-01-01, staff 10-19 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• RUE CARNOT PROLONGEE 54110 VARANGEVILLE: SIRET 41457405300073, active, activity code 35.14Z (Commerce d'électricité), opened 2019-11-25. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 52 RUE DE LA HAIE COQ 93300 AUBERVILLIERS: SIRET 41457405300081, active, activity code 70.10Z (Activités des sièges sociaux), opened 2020-03-31, staff 10-19 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 2 AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE 39500 TAVAUX: SIRET 41457405300065, closed 2021-12-31, manufacturing activity code 20.13B (Fabrication d'autres produits chimiques inorganiques de base n.c.a.), opened 2016-07-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 5 RUE FRANCOIS IER 75008 PARIS: SIRET 41457405300016, closed 2000-01-01, activity code 74.1J, opened 1997-11-24. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 12 RUE FRANCOIS IER 75008 PARIS: SIRET 41457405300032, closed 2006-06-01, activity code 74.1J, opened 1999-09-30. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 25 RUE DE CLICHY 75009 PARIS: SIRET 41457405300057, closed 2020-07-01, activity code 70.10Z (Activités des sièges sociaux), opened 2006-06-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)

Relationships

14 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.

Recorded in a source

• 2 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• SOLVAY OPERATIONS FRANCE: Site named in the record, registry number 0006200158. European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR / IED), European Environment Agency
• 2,rue Gabriel Peri BP 1, 54110 Dombasle-sur-Meurthe: Holds the site's permit. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• Dombasle Sur Meurthe: Manufactures at the site. EudraGMDP, EU register of GMP certificates (EMA)
• SOLVAY OPERATIONS FRANCE: Site named in the record. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)

Import rules for these goods

• Chemical substances imported into the EU above 1 tonne/year must be REACH-registered. ECHA (REACH)

Check independently

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)
• VAT number check (EU VIES)