One Site Four Companies

Economic powerhouse of the Chablais region, the chemical production site of Monthey has been active for over 100 years. The creation, in 1904, of the "Société des Usines de Produits Chimiques", really marked the beginning of the adventure and was followed by a century of different and varied productions (Indigo, Bakelite, Araldite, pigments and optical brighteners, agricultural products, etc) calling for inventiveness, pugnacity and new developments to finally become a chemical site of the 21st century.

Today, four companies share the chemical site: BASF (pigments and optical brighteners), Cimo (service company), Huntsman (polymers) and Syngenta (crop protection products). Some 2000 people work on the site.

The site, which can be reached by rail, covers an area of almost 296 acres, roughly a quarter of the surface of the town of Monthey. The site also means 80 buildings (about 50 used for chemical productions), 16 km of overhead bridges, 130 km of piping and high-quality infrastructures, not forgetting the Waste water treatment plant and the waste incinerators.

The Chemical Site in Figures

Energies

195 GWh/year electricity used on the site

200 GWh/year electricity produced on the site

600 000 tons/year steam produced

40 million m3/year industrial water supplied to the site

Environnement

115 000 tons/year of special waste treated

5 million m3/year chemical and town waters treated at the Waste water treatment plant

120 000 environmental parameters measured every year (air, ground, waters from WWT plant, cooling water, groundwater table)

Rail trafic

A railway network of 20 km, of which 135 junction crossings

17 000 entries / exits to and from the site per year, i.e. the equivalent of a 300 km long train.

Road trafic

Approximately 420 vehicle entries per day to the site, of which roughly one hundred lorries