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SEPPIC currently has over 600 staff world-wide. Together, they are creating, developing and promoting innovative speciality chemical and biological products designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of markets including cosmetics, human health, animal health, nutrition, textiles, paper, fertilisers, lubricants, drilling, detergents, optical cables, glass, building, resins, plastics and polymers, paints and inks. SEPPIC offers its customers a wide range of high performance and innovative products.
SEPPIC is a company based within the international Air Liquide group. The state of the art ressources of Air Liquide allow SEPPIC to create the products needed in tomorrow's markets.
SEPPIC has widely recognised international expertise dedicated to ensuring customer satisfaction offering made-to-measure services, with the aim of Total Quality, to meet the economic challenges of the 21st century.
R&D, Marketing
Research lies at the heart of our company. We have brought our Research, Development and Marketing departments together so that our research and development is in touch with market trends.
This enables us to offer tools and services able to meet rapidly changing requirements.
Control over the design, the application and the use of our speciality chemical and biological products are essential for developing our markets.
The Castres Research Centre places its science and services at the service of customers to develop products for the future.
Over 80 research workers apply their expertise to synthesising chemical and biological products and improving the performance of our speciality chemicals, in particular for the beauty, medicine, health and hygiene markets as well as special applications for glass, lubricants, plastics and polymers, paper and textiles.
SEPPIC's research is also based on collaboration with public and private research organisations such as CNRS, INRA, INSERM and AFSSA. These joint research projects enable SEPPIC to respond more accurately and more quickly to meet the market requirements for technical performances.
Quality
The quality of products and services, environment, health and safety issues have been central to SEPPIC's strategy since 1989.
Its Total Quality objective is based on continual staff training and staff motivation and has clearly defined aims: respect for its customers, the environment and its staff and compliance with regulations.
Quality: always aiming to improve customer satisfaction while listening to them.
SEPPIC is certified to ISO 9001 to ensure control over all aspects from safety to use of its products. The "processus" management according to V 2000 is underway.
— Quality policy and specific improvement objectives
— Co-operation with suppliers, sub contractors and customers
— Improving the reliability of processes and production equipment
— Continual improvement of manufacturing practices
Health and Safety: objective "zero accidents"
— Procedures, audits, objectives and annual reports
— Motivation, training and preventive education
— Daily safety training
— Control over products used and the risks they represent
— Appropriate work methods and means of protection
Environment: protection of our natural environment
The environment is of major concern to SEPPIC:
— ISO 14001 certification mid 2000
— Control and reduction of liquid waste and pollutant gases
— Studies of waste and waste treatment
— Studies of risks and prevention of technological risks
— Product life cycle environmental accounting
Improvement of good manufacturing and responsible care practises is a permanent concern.
Other locations in France:
SEPPIC has two production subsidiaries in France and a new subsidiary in Antwerp, Belgium.
Each has its own range of speciality chemicals with production management systems controlling quality, productivity and total traceability.
As part of the Total Quality policy, Good Manufacturing Procedures are gradually being introduced in the various units.
SEPIPROD Castres
127, chemin de la Poudrerie
81108 Castres
France
Tel.: +33 (0)5 63 72 69 69
Fax: +33 (0)5 63 72 69 70
This unit covers an area of 8 hectares and manufactures 600 different products with an annual output of 30,000 tonnes. Castres produces mainly surfactants and surfactant-based products (sorbitan esters, alkylpolyglucosides, amides, betaines, etc.).
Additional products include, for example, polymers, pharmaceutical and veterinary excipients as well as glass frosting materials and special products for optical fibre cables.
Givaudan-Lavirotte
56, rue Paul Cazeneuve
BP 8344
Lyon 08
France
Tel.: +33 (0)4 78 61 55 00
Fax: +33 (0)4 78 61 55 94
The Givaudan-Lavirotte unit makes pharmaceutical and nutritional products and also provides services to the cosmetics industry. Its products are mainly used as ingredients for health products (mineral salts, nicotinates and undecylenates, protein surfactant complexes, etc.).
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