GPN

The company GPN (in the past “Large Parish”) is a chemical company, subsidiary of the group Total (and old subsidiary company of Atofina). It is the first manufacturer French of Engrais, in particular of nitrate fertilizers and the compound fertilizers, sold under the mark AZF. It exploits eight industrial sites in France and with the Netherlands. Following the explosion of the intervened factory the September 21st 2001, the site of Toulouse was definitively closed. Its annual turnover rises with envion 550 million euros. The manpower is approximately the 1900 paid ones.

This company owes its name with the Large-Parish, common of Seine-et-Marne near to Montereau in which Georges Claude developed in 1918 the synthesis of the Ammoniac. “From the name of the company comes from the chemical symbol of nitrogen.

Company GPN is attached to division Total Petrochemicals. Formerly held to 99,89% by Atofina, it was not included in the new business Arkema created on October 1st 2004 within the framework of the reorganization of the activities of Total in the field of the Chimie. This separation is explained by the important loads which weigh on this company as well at the costs of closing of the site of Toulouse as for the depollution of several other sites.

History

The company was created in 1919 under the name of “chemical company of the Large Parish” (SCGP) by the Liquid air and Saint-Gobain. It establishes with the Large-Parish the first workshop French of production of ammonia, of a capacity of 5 tons per day.

In 1929, the SCGP is established with the Grand-Quevilly, close to Rouen, where it invests in a more important ammonia factory, which will be closed in 1967, after the creation of AGQ (Ammonia of Grand-Quevilly), of a capacity of 1000 t/jour.

November 1st 1987, the SCGP, fililale with 70% of the Liquid air, is amalgamated with company AZF, subsidiary of CDF-Chemistry (chemistry of coal mining connects), which is at the time the first company of fertilizers in France. The new unit, which takes the name of Large Parish, then gathers to it quasi totality of the industry of manures with French capital, whose large competitor is the Norwegian group Norsk Hydro which repurchased the French Compagnie of the nitrogen (COFAZ).

In 1990, the government decides, within the framework of a reorganization of the public groups, to place the Large Parish under the control of Elf Aquitaine.

In April 2000, at the time of the fusion of Total and Elf Aquitaine, the company is found in the bosom of Atofina.

May 1st 2007, the company is re-elected in GPN .

Industrial sites

The site of Toulouse, closed since the explosion of 2001, will be replaced in the long term by a pole of anti-cancer research baptized “cancéropôle”. To note that factories of Rouen, Mazingarbe, Grandpuits, and Ottmarsheim have an activity dangerous, similar to that of Toulouse (synthesis of the Ammoniac, Acid nitric, Ammonitrate).

See too

External bond

Large Parish, official site

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