ENTER RHODIA
Continuing how Albright and Wilson ended and Rhodia began in Oldbury– basically just the same dirty polluting business as usual.
The first report in the Rhodia era outlines the complicated process of transferring around the large holdings of the phosphorus manufacturers.
We also at this time have another company divergence numbered 00036833 – also at 34 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, WD17 1JJ, which confirms the change of name from the Oldbury operation from “Albright and Wilson UK Limited” to “Rhodia consumer specialities Limited.”
The following year saw the appointment of names familiar with the dealings at Rattlechain such as John Scott and Robert Tyler
In this year, external sales of the company are reported at £206,501,000. Oh they gave a miserly £15,000 to “charity” apparently in this year 🙄
Also in this report is the mention of the closure of Whitehaven– a significant nail in the coffin into the Old Albright and Wilson brand.
The following years report is interesting in giving an inside account of the significant legionnaires outbreak, but this is a very different story to the one that was coming out of the site publicly. This was the testing of cooling towers in the Oldbury area including the ones at Trinity Street.
“Upon completion of the analysis of the samples the West Midlands Public Health Laboratory service informed the Director of Public health for Sandwell that it had identified legionella bacteria, of a kind which is harmful to human health in the samples taken from the company’s Oldbury site.
It also states that four people affected by the outbreak had sent letters before action to sue the company. This is quite a different story to that offered by the press at the time.
We were of course at this time engaged with the liars of Trinity Street c/o Watford telling us fairy tales about their lake of death and the birds they had really poisoned with a banned rat poison.
Subsequent years accounts show RCS going further down the plughole in profits. There is no doubt, that at this time Rhodia were more environmentally retarded in their operations as opposed to flame retardant manufacturers at this point in time. They also flogged off their Avonmouth site- another AW relic. Oh, and thereby hangs another pollution story. 😆
The dirty Rhodia business
shameful
Perhaps it came as no surprise that faced with such bad publicity for its operating shambles, Rhodia evolved and dropped its “consumer specialities” in September 2004, and became the “Rhodia UK limited” that we all know and love. 😆 😆
By this time, they had dwindled to just four directors, Messrs Scott, Steel, Tyler and the newly appointed Paul Brennan.
Subsequent director appointments would include familiar names such as Steve Hampson, Tom Dutton and John Hamnett– all tied in with the great Rattlechain bird death deception as well as PR merchant Beverly Miles.
Bizarrely, there is no mention whatsoever in the 2009 report about the significant incident regarding the fire and release of gas from the Trinity Street plant– or the potential risks associated with litigation. Perhaps this was “off the books”. We also get no mention in reports about the 2013 cover up works at rattlechain, or the costs associated with this.
Yet another company, Company number 00213674 as we already know was created in this year known as “Rhodia Limited”, just as “Solvay Solutions Limited” ended the “Rhodia Uk Limited” moniker.
“Rhodia Limited” is officially the “company” now controlling Rattlechain lagoon- consisting of directors Tom Dutton, John Moorhouse and Alsion Murphy as secretary. It is of course a ruse to attempt to shield Solvay from direct linkage to this “closed” environmental fiasco, but they are inextricably linked to this site and its continued “monitoring”.
Meanwhile “Rhodia reorganisation Limited” Company number 01134915 also continues to have Tom Dutton and Alison Murphy as directors.
It is the property of Solvay- as “Rhodia UK limited” no longer exists in name- they changed it in 2014.
Oh and as I know they read this blog, perhaps it’s time you filed the overdue accounts to companies house for Solvay Solutions UK Limited- just a little reminder……
