07 May 2010.
Dr Gérard Collette, president of Rhodia Acetow
Five quick facts about Dr. Gérard Collette
Will be 57 this year, married with two daughters, three grandchildren
Likes gardening, trekking, cycling
Sometimes doing nothing just enjoying life, reading a good book
Very pragmatic, even though he is a scientist
Persevering
Five quick facts about Rhodia Acetow
Largest portfolio in the tow business
Global company, worldwide footprint
Rhodia Acetow produces and supplies to the community the equivalent of 40 per cent of electricity consumed
The Freiburg factory was originally built because the site was a humid bog forest and suffered from a mosquito plague – the plant was supposed to do away with the plague (which it did)
Nowadays Rhodia Acetow restores to the Mooswald forest more than 80 per cent of the consumed water to refuel the water table
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