Nothing left Toulouse?
MEPI is trialling alternative chemistries for fine and speciality chemicals in Toulouse. Andrew Warmington found out more
One of the most devastating accidents to hit the European chemicals industry took place on 21 September 2001, when a blast rocked AZF’s fertiliser plant at Total’s Grande Paroisse subsidiary Toulouse in south-west France. As well as the immediate victims killed in the disaster, it cast a very big shadow over the chemicals industry in the region.