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It produces Forane® fluorogases as well as the Kynar® polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) specialty polymer The plant’s products are used in a number of sectors: construction the Pierre-Bénite plant meets the requirements of safety regulations by carrying out hazard studies and conducting regular exercises with internal teams and external response teams In order to constantly improve working conditions and ensure everyone’s safety, the Pierre-Bénite plant has an integrated management reference system (Arkema Integrated Management System) Kynar® PVDF manufactured in Pierre-Bénite is the benchmark material in the semi-conductor market earmarked for microprocessors in ever growing demand The Pierre-Bénite facility is the only Arkema site among Arkema’s three PVDF production sites in the world to produce the high performance grades required for this market A benchmark polymer material in the Lithium-ion battery technology Kynar® PVDF has been renowned and enjoying a leading position in this buoyant market for over 10 years It is used by all major battery manufacturers in Asia and the US and is currently being certified by European “pure players” that have emerged following the advent of the European “Gigafactories” ecosystem The emulsion polymerization and copolymerization technology developed in Pierre-Bénite has enabled Arkema to gain a strong position in this market and a foothold in each of the market’s segments (electronics In recent years Arkema has also conducted significant research work in the field of Foranext® fluorinated lithium salts key components in the manufacture of electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries and is now in a position to carry out the development of new generation salts Dedicated to battery technologies, the Christian Colette Center of Excellence was established and installed within the Centre de Recherche Rhône-Alpes on this platform in 2021 Close to €100 M have been invested for over 10 years in maintenance as well as in R&D to improve the site’s security and safety and develop new high added value and resilient activities and product ranges thus capitalizing on the emergence of new markets in Europe in particular in Lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles To support the growth of materials for the lithium-ion batteries market Arkema announced in November 2021 a project to invest in a production line for a new Kynar® PVDF biosourced product range on the Pierre-Bénite site These new grades will be produced from a pine oil derivative a pilot line dedicated to the pre-industrialization of the next generations of electrolytes for the batteries of the future is already operational more information As part of its societal commitment Arkema operates as a responsible manufacturer driven by an initiative of constant progress in reducing the environmental footprint of its activities every year the Pierre-Bénite site conducts hundreds of measurements and sampling points in water and air and in the analysis of its wastes in order to monitor and control its emissions and comply with current regulations the plant complies with the European directive on the control of major-accident hazards Always aiming to limit the impact of its activities on the environment, the Pierre-Bénite production unit is certified ISO 14001 the site installed a treatment plant to filter out suspended solids Arkema has deliberately undertaken a process to substitute fluorinated additives used in small amounts in the manufacture of certain products Thanks to a major multi-million euro R&D program the Group today is a pioneer in the development of an industrial technique for the manufacture of fluoropolymers without the use of fluorinated additives and the Pierre-Bénite site no longer resort to fluorinated additives since 2024 the latest industrial investment announced at the end of 2021 includes a new €3 M treatment plant for production process effluents Update on the PFAS situation at the Arkema site in Pierre-Bénite As part of Common Ground®, the CETIA and CRRA of Pierre-Bénite organize actions with elected officials Presence at the Mondial des métiers Sponsor of the Envol trophée (Pierre-Bénite’s international athletics meet) and of the Les foulées de Beauregard sports festival in Saint-Genis-Laval Hosting of the cinema workshop at the social center Graine de vie in Pierre-Bénite for a film shooting Meeting with stakeholders (elected officials Partnership with NATURAMA to preserve local biodiversity Interview with an employee with a disability as part of the “La tête de l’emploi” (Right Person for the Job) series and administrative expertise brought together at the CETIA contributes to the performance of Business Units (BUs) and industrial sites It is a group of around 500 people in six entities with innovative engineering and focusing on excellence and sustainable development: which was set up in 2001 to bring together all the group's textile subsidiaries into three buildings built around patios and linked by an aerial walkway.The extension will see the installation of a new printing line to be supplemented by a second line by 2024 "in order to continue the industry's innovation drive and contribute to the development of printing expertise in the 'Lyon-style' setting that is emblematic of the House," explains the company in a press release pointing out that Holding Textile Hermès was awarded the "Living Heritage Company" label in 2022 The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes French region and the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) have announced the construction of a one-kilometer hydrogen pipeline between the Pierre-Bénite dam and the Saint-Fons chemical valley by 2025 The project consists in building a pipeline between the Pierre-Bénite dam and the Chemical Valley in Saint-Fons The hydrogen would be produced with water from the Rhône River thanks to a 20 MW electrolyser It will produce 8 tonnes of hydrogen per day it would be sent to Symbio’s industrial site The joint venture between Faurecia and Michelin will produce some 200,000 fuel cells per year at its Saint-Fons plant by 2030 with an annual capacity of 50,000 hydrogen fuel cells from the outset the pipeline will also be used to supply a refuelling station set up by Hympulsion for buses and coaches A refuelling point should also be added near the port of Lyon for boats It should be noted that the project will also link up with the actors of the HyPSTER project the President of the region Laurent Wauquiez said that “80% of the hydrogen players in France are in our region.” He added: “We expect 150,000 jobs to be created in France by 2030 in this sector The region is thinking bigger as it also intends to connect to a mega pipeline linking Germany to Fos-sur-Mer Do you want to learn more about hydrogen pipelines? 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polyfluoroalkyl substances) Ever since he learned a few months ago that the water in his community was contaminated with these highly toxic chemical compounds he has been unable to avoid making the connection with his little boy's illness: "We don't know for sure but we do know that exposure to PFAS increases the risk of developing testicular cancer tenfold 37 residents of the "chemical valley" (including 16 children) and 10 associations and unions have decided to take legal action to put an end to the pollution they applied to the Lyon criminal court on May 25 for an environmental penal sanction against the Arkema chemical group which is responsible for major PFAS discharges into the Rhône "We have chosen a fast-track application to stop Arkema discharging PFAS into the Rhône as quickly as possible and to measure the extent of the contamination by taking new samples at the polluter's expense," explained Camille Panisset general secretary of the Lyon branch of Notre Affaire à Tous 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You can also get more information about our cookie policy here Luxury French company is planning to extend the capacity of its French factory located in Pierre Bénite with the aim of satisfying the demand of Asian market Luxury French company has explained that is planning to expand its facilities and the number of employees in its factory of Pierre Bénite The group is planning to extend the production level up to three buildings and hire 120 new employees that will join the 460 workers that are already operating in the factory The aim of the group’s factory expansion is responding the Asian consumers demand The company closed the last exercise with a volume of business of 5,966.1 million euros info@themds.com  MDS does not perform prior verification for the publication of comments to prevent anonymous comments from affecting the rights of third parties without the ability to reply all comments require a valid email address which won’t be visible or shared. Enter your name and email 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industrial-scale production of high-purity LiFSI The partners built a LiFSI pilot production line based on a new integrated process that they developed and this line came on stream at the Pierre-Bénite site in 2021 The companies predict that ultrapure and high-performance LiFSI electrolyte salts will “speed up the development of new electrolyte formulations for the next generations of batteries including semi-solid and solid-state batteries while reducing charging time in high or low temperature conditions.” Source: Nippon Shokubai The free webinar sessions from our Spring 2025 Virtual Conference are now available to view on-demand Register for a session below to watch the recording and download the presentation Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register Register LOAD MORE SESSIONS In a context of rapidly accelerating growth in electric mobility around the world including greater energy density and shorter charging time greater autonomy and lighter weight of vehicles today represent key R&D areas to meet the challenge of energy transition Thanks to its recognized expertise and unique offering of innovative Arkema is ideally positioned at the heart of the battery ecosystem to support its customers and partners in the clean mobility revolution Arkema is thus one of the world's leading suppliers of high-value-added solutions: PVDF for binders and separator coatings and bio-based polyamide 11 to cool battery lines This Center of Excellence dedicated to batteries for clean mobility is equipped with state-of-the-art design and analysis equipment including a dry room and an electrode coating line It draws on the scientific and technical complementarity of the Pierre-Bénite Research Center’s researchers which will help accelerate the development of advanced materials and processes for future generations of more efficient has been co-financed by the European Union as part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with the support of the Region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes named the Christian Collette Center of Excellence for Batteries in honor of the Group's R&D Vice President who passed away last April is inaugurated in the presence of numerous customers The teams will conduct research with the Group's academic partners (CNRS LEPMI in Grenoble and ENSCM in Montpellier) as well as with partners in the battery ecosystem with which strategic agreements have been concluded (start-ups To support the exponential growth in demand for lithium-ion battery cell materials in Europe Arkema also announces a 50% expansion of its Kynar® fluoropolymer production capacity at its Pierre-Bénite site These polymers are used as separators coatings or as cathode binders New innovations and product ranges will also be offered the new Kynar® PVDF made from renewable sources This new extension should come on stream in the first quarter of 2023 This investment benefited from State support as part of the "France Relance" plan These projects are perfectly aligned with the Group's strategy aimed at accelerating its growth by fully leveraging its unique positioning in high-stakes markets such as batteries and at offering its customers and partners innovative high-performance and breakthrough materials to help build a sustainable world I spoke with Fink about what rationing health care during COVID really means Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity Mary Harris: You’ve said many hospitals are in the first stage of their pandemic handbook And that means they aren’t officially rationing—yet Sheri Fink: They’re telling me they’re in this contingency mode where they’re just stretching where it’s incredibly difficult for the providers where the patients aren’t able to get the kind of care they would like to provide is that a lot of regular types of care are being canceled—if you can hold off on a surgery These have been called “elective procedures.” But if you’re the one waiting to have your tumor out It seems to be trickling down to people in emergency situations It hasn’t felt like all these people arrive and you choose between them It’s this horrific situation where a lot of patients are not getting regular care You’re being denied the type of care that would be most recommended That’s what we call a “standard of care,” what would typically be given to you And there can be more risk with missing out on that care even survival from COVID has been lower in stressed hospitals Sometimes it does come down to choosing who gets a dialysis machine or an ECMO machine— when your lungs aren’t working and you need a machine that does the work of the lungs That is something that’s been rationed for sure There are not many hospitals that provide the machines and the number of hospitals that provide it can only give it to a few patients So there are definitely cases where there have been choices about which patients get a particular resource dialysis: Sometimes everybody’s gotten a shortened course of dialysis rather than giving a full course to one person and nothing to another person there are shortages of staff because workers are getting burned out after a long time too I feel like that’s all affecting just when we lean on these crisis standards of care The extraordinary sacrifice of providers and the stress and their dedication—there are now many stories about just how difficult this is I’m hearing a lot that there’s an active antagonism toward the medical community I had one doctor say to me that “Our hospital is full of patients dying of COVID who don’t believe that this pandemic exists.” There are many layers to this I can’t stress enough how much these people care so hard for them to watch so many people die There’s one other level that we haven’t talked about and that is that some of these crisis-standards-of-care plans envision a situation where somebody has a resource like a ventilator or a critical care bed and doctors expect this patient won’t make it—or that the patient has maybe less of a chance to make it than other patients—and the resources are actually reassigned to somebody else What really adds to the emotional difficulty there is that in a lot of hospitals during COVID surgeries or while in units that treat patients the families aren’t being allowed to visit you can imagine that doctors and nurses barely have time to make phone calls But they’re trying really hard to stay in touch with family members and it is harder to wrap your mind around the situation in a hospital with your relative or loved one when you can’t actually be there “crisis standards of care” have showed up in the form of a high rate of transferring patients There are rules for how to withdraw care without the consent of patients if they fail to improve after a certain period of time Some come with elaborate point systems to help assign relative value to different types of people Some of those systems incorporate patients’ long-term chances of survival But using a point system like this is also relatively untested and these plans often don’t go in front of the public for feedback before they’re put into action So doctors are understandably wary of putting the exact “crisis standards” into practice I would say that I’ve really been stretching to find a place that is using these plans as written I will also point out that there’s always been a problem with these plans because there’s not a lot of research that suggests that you will meet your goals by using these scoring systems The whole purpose of choosing who gets the resource based on a scoring system the whole goal is to maximize a certain outcome Do you look at whether that person has underlying conditions That’s the other question: Who gets to make that choice a group of people from a particular socioeconomic and educational background It has been troubling to look at some of these plans and feel that they didn’t have a lot of input there wasn’t a huge public awareness of them and there wasn’t even a lot of awareness among providers that states and hospitals were coming up with these plans now that they’re being noticed and written about A number of disability rights organizations have filed complaints with the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services to say that if you implement some of these plans as written you will discriminate in ways that are unlawful Some had these aspects that sound very discriminatory that may have nothing to do with maximizing survival And there are people who would argue that it should be randomized because all of this has a danger of reinforcing structural inequities in our health system The more light that shines on these documents The other big issue is that these plans are not so easy to implement a lot of these hospitals wouldn’t even need to consider these standards but they’re just not distributed correctly What would that look like if we did do this better Would it look like physicians relocating from a place like New York and having a more fluid workforce There is some coordination going on for getting providers from other places and there are some very wonderful steps that some hospitals are taking to voluntarily care for patients from other places But there are places in the world where there’s a much more organized approach to this where they’re one step ahead and they’re keeping track in real time and they’re actually moving patients ahead of getting into crisis mode But that’s just not being done for various reasons and often they’re taught to think of themselves as little islands that have their own departments of health and that communicate with their own hospitals But we do this coordination during events like hurricanes We do it when large numbers of patients have to be moved sometimes—is that we’re more than a year into this pandemic and we’re still in this situation that’s unconscionable we’re in what is the fourth surge for many places We’re not going to get into this situation again.” There hasn’t been a lot of “What did we learn from it and what can we implement?” I feel that we haven’t learned enough though we’ve had a chance to improve within the crisis InvestigationThe investigation by 'Le Monde' and 17 media partners revealed the presence of dozens of French sites where the pollution levels are considered hazardous to health The contamination of the European continent by per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) ultra-toxic compounds that are persistent in the environment Le Monde and its partners in the Forever Pollution Project investigation have identified several hundred polluted sites in France as well as five of the 20 European PFAS production plants This is the first attempt to measure and map the extent of this contamination in Europe While there are more than 900 contaminated sites in France this staggering figure greatly underestimates the reality and extent of pollution by these chemicals Their persistence in the environment has earned them the nickname "forever chemicals." To locate these sites we collected data from several public databases containing sampling data are contamination "hotspots" – places where PFAS concentrations are so high (more than 100 nanograms per liter [ng/l]) that they are considered hazardous to health by relevant experts A number of these hotspots were identified in the 2010s by a team of researchers from the Nancy Laboratory for Hydrology of the French Agency for Food Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) After several months of solving scientific riddles and thanks to a freedom of information request we were able to identify about 30 of these sites from Pierre-Bénite (south of Lyon) to the Mediterranean Sea owe their contamination to the discharges of only two factories: Arkema and Daikin You have 83.37% of this article left to read Arkema accelerates its development in China in order to meet the strong demand from its partner customers in the lithium-ion battery business and support the significant growth in the water filtration also recently announced a 50% PVDF capacity increase at its Pierre-Bénite site in France, which is scheduled to come on stream in the first quarter of 2023 We are committed to supporting the growth of our customers driven by strong end-user demand for sustainable solutions Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology FRANCE: Arkema is planning to shut down its R134a refrigerant plant at Pierre-Bénite Faced with an expected decline in demand for R134a under the European MAC Directive which bans the use of the refrigerant in all new cars the French refrigerant manufacturer is proposing to close the plant in the first quarter of 2017 In a statement yesterday the company said: “The R134a market in Europe is set to undergo an inevitable decline from 1st January 2017 following regulatory changes affecting fluorinated gases for automotive air conditioning taking effect on that date Arkema has decided to put forward to the central works council today a project for the closure of the R134a fluorogas plant at its Pierre-Bénite site (France) This proposed closure would not result in any redundancies.” The automotive air conditioning market is said to be the main outlet for Arkema’s R134a business in Europe Arkema says it will focus its refrigerant activities at the Pierre-Bénite site on the production of other fluorinated refrigerants and blends for the stationary air conditioning and refrigeration markets Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web where creativity and craft unite to make the iconic Hermès ‘carré’ – a square-shaped silk scarf adorned with prints by renowned artists and illustrators across two sites where each scarf is printed and finished by hand ‘When you see all of the steps,’ says Cécile Pesce the current creative director of Hermès women’s silk across the two sites on the outskirts of the city – the Bourgoin-Jallieu site to the south-east and the recently extended Pierre-Bénite closer to the centre – the process of creating a carré harks back to the accessory’s invention by Hermès family member Robert Dumas in 1937 and remains led by the artisan’s hand in the face of modernisation the hand-inscription of the original design – patterns are commissioned from a series of notable artists and illustrators – into an image editing programme the team nonetheless painstakingly traces each brush or penstroke by hand using a drawing tablet and stylus in a process which takes on over 600 hours for each scarf’s design (several have taken far longer) Hermès inaugurated the newly expanded Pierre-Bénite site which now includes a sleek three-building extension surrounded by verdant gardens created by Lyon-based architecture studio Unanime (it even includes its own vegetable patch state-of-the-art screenprinting machines have replaced the labour-intensive process of hand-dragging the ink over the screens; another production line is set to be added in the coming months The site is also where the Willy Wonka-esque process of creating the now over 75,000 shades in the Hermès colour catalogue are mixed and perfected into their (secret) formulas.  colour is perhaps the central facet of Pesce’s role as creative director which she began in 2020 having worked in the silk department since 2005 (she has also designed collections for Hermès’ ‘beach universe’ since 2014 Pesce is responsible for choosing the colours that best fit the designs that the artists have submitted as well as updating archival prints with new hues she demonstrates how different a singular design can appear with the colours shifted and changed choices are intuitive: ‘[The colours] are mixed from memories The idea is to reorganise everything; colours are like words to make a sentence,’ she says ‘Or how it is to make music: it is natural for me.’ Pesce notes that it is often easier when the carré utilises numerous shades rather than just a handful it’s easier because they feel equal to one another,’ she explains ‘But when you just have five colours You have to respect the different shades – from dark to middle to very bright and the lightest lights.’ whereby Hermès united with a producer in Kyoto undertaking historic marbled silk printing captured in a short film by Frédéric Laffont.  escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox She notes that craft – and the artisans who work on the various silk pieces – remain the bedrock of her métier at Hermès ‘I really like to spend time in the workshop – I have a lot of respect for the artisans noting that she travels down to Lyon when she can and around people who are passionate about their work.’ Of the house’s signature silk product around 1,000 artisans and craftspeople will gather at the new factory site in Pierre-Bénite for its official opening in a celebration that includes musical performances Bunting made from cut-up triangles of printed Hermès silk flutters overhead and there is excitement in the air; the festivities will mark a rare halt in production as everybody will take the day off to toast the occasion but something much more – a network of artisans across France and beyond dedicated to working together to unite on the dizzying expressions of craft and creativity which are now synonymous with the bastion of French style ‘It really is a family affair,’ she smiles hermes.com Fashion Features EditorJack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper* Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines he has also contributed to titles including i-D while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures France's industry minister Roland Lescure denounced the protest on Friday declaring on social media platform X "Disagreeing and debating This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate activists deploying a giant banner depicting a skull and bones atop a structure inside the Arkema chemical plant after they entered the site to protest against pollution caused by polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) SYLVAIN THIZY / AFP Environmental activists broke into a French chemicals site Saturday March 2 to denounce the production of so-called "forever chemicals" – PFAS compounds – leading to eight arrests Around 300 people from the Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate groups cut through fences to reach the Arkema site at the Pierre-Bénite factory near Lyon in southeast France Once inside they deployed banners and spray-painted graffiti including "PFAS tell the truth" and "Arkema is poisoning us" "We want to close to door for the 'forever chemicals' that Arkema is dumping into the Rhone river," Julien we want to open the door because everything that's happening here is being done in secret," he said are a family of around 4,000 chemical compounds often referred to as "forever chemicals" because of their long lifespans in bodies and the environment Experts say that exposure to some types of PFAS has been linked to serious health effects American regulators said this week that materials with PFAS would no longer be sold to package microwave popcorn or other greasy foods in the United States Arkema said in a statement that the Pierre-Benite site would stop using PFAS compounds to manufacture its products by the end of this year The protest came as another chemicals group is seeking to build a new production site nearby Regional authorities said: "The new site from Daikin will not lead to PFAS runoffs in the water unlike the Arkema site which has been subject to a September 2022 decree that calls for halting the use of PFAS surfactants by the end of 2024." Metrics details Surgical site infections (SSI) occur in 1.4% to 33.4% of cases after orthognathic surgery This type of complication is a major concern to surgical teams but there is no consensus for the prevention and treatment of SSI in orthognathic surgery The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the severity and the consequences of postoperative infections The charts of all the patients operated on by the orthognathic surgery team between January 2015 and July 2017 were collected All types of orthognathic procedures (Le Fort I maxillary osteotomy bilateral sagittal split mandibular osteotomy and patients diagnosed with SSI were included as well as long-term complications were recorded Five hundred and twelve patients were screened Forty-one patients (8%) presenting with SSI were included The site of the infection was mandibular for 38 patients (92.7%) and maxillary for 3 patients (7.3%) The average time between surgery and infection was 31.5 days Twenty-four patients received isolated oral antibiotics for inflammatory cellulitic reaction (58.8%) 15 patients had a localized collection treated by incision and drainage under local anesthesia (36.6%) and 2 patients had an extensive collection requiring surgical drainage under general anesthesia (4.9%) Five patients (12.2%) needed hardware removal for plate loosening and 2 patients (4.9%) developed chronic osteomyelitis Infection following orthognathic surgery is easily treated most of the time with no long-term complications In cases of patients with potential risk factors for severe infection antibiotics may be given with curative intents All patients were followed up for at least 6 months Informed consent was obtained from all participants This research was approved by the local ethics committee (Collège régional de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale) on May 2 and was performed in accordance with the guidelines reported in the ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki) Le Fort osteotomy was performed using a reciprocating saw or Piezotome Fixation of the maxilla and BSSO was obtained using titanium mini plates Third molars were removed at the time of surgery if necessary Surgical wounds were sutured with Ethicon coated VICRYL 3.0 sutures (Johnson and Johnson International) Standard post-operative care and oral hygiene instructions were given to each patients antibiotics were prescribed for 10 to 15 days and oral hygiene was re-emphasized The first line antibiotic was AMOXICILLIN CLAVULANIC ACID 1 g every 8 h CLINDAMYCIN 600 mg every 8 h was the second line treatment in case of penicllin allergy When the clinical and radiological evaluation demonstrated a collection a surgical drainage was performed: local collection were drained under local anesthesia and irrigated with a normal saline solution Extensive collections were drained under general anesthesia In case of osteomyelitis (Fig. 1), the patient was managed in collaboration with the infectious diseases department. Following surgical cleansing and bacteriological sampling, culture directed antibiotics were selected and administered for a period of 6 weeks to 3 months. Axial view of Cone Beam CT: right mandibular osteomyelitis The following variables were collected: medical history (including tobacco use immunosuppressive treatment or pathology) age Every complication occuring in the 6 months following surgery was documented surgical drainage and patient’s evolution were recorded The initial SSI severity was defined by the following presentations: cellulitic reaction treated with oral antibiotics local collection requiring surgical drainage under local anaesthesia and extensive cellulitis needing surgical drainage under general anesthesia Local evolution according to initial presentation. Extensive cellulitis with purulent collection after bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (CT scan One of the two patients presenting with osteomyelitis was treated for rheumatoid arthritis with METHOTREXATE and ADALILUMAB. These treatments were discontinued 2 months before surgery (Fig. 1) The 2 cases of osteomyelitis resolved under medical treatment without requiring interruptive mandibulectomy Short-term prophylaxis reduces adverse effects decreases selection of resistant bacterial strains systematic antibiotic treatment cannot be recommended given the available evidence the low rate of local complications as well as the plethora of possible adverse effects from extended antibiotic therapy support the indication for single dose preoperative antibioprophylaxis The delay found in the current study might be overestimated the date of infection was noted as the date at which the patient presented out medical attention on our service the patients treated for long-term complications in our series were older with an average age of 37.5 years as opposed to 19.6 years for patients needing only hardware removal and 23.4 years for those recovering promptly following oral antibiotics only in the rest of the series 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Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68968-2 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Arkema plans a 50% expansion of capacity for polyvinylidene fluoride manufacturing in Pierre-Bénite to meet demand for the polymer as a binder and separator material in lithium-ion batteries Arkema also just opened a battery research center at the site The company says the moves support its goal of having sales to the battery market of at least 1 billion euros (about $1.1 billion) per year by 2030 ACS’s Basic Package keeps you connected with C&EN and ACS $80 Regular Members & Society Affiliates ACS’s Standard Package lets you stay up to date with C&EN ACS’s Premium Package gives you full access to C&EN and everything the ACS Community has to offer This article has been sent to the following recipient: Sign up for C&EN's must-read weekly newsletter Copyright © 2025 American Chemical Society InvestigationAccording to the estimate calculated by Le Monde and its partners France would have to spend €12 billion a year on cleaning up PFAS if the smallest of them which is widely present in water and not yet regulated Anne Grosperrin is "very concerned by this discovery." Since the end of 2024 Greater Lyon's vice president in charge of the water cycle has known that "the water catchment area that supplies 98% of the population with drinking water is contaminated with TFA." In the PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances) family The most microscopic of the "forever chemicals," the darling of agricultural and medical chemistry is making its way at breakneck speed through water A breakdown product of pesticides and other PFAS You have 92.12% of this article left to read Part of the A7 motorway near Lyon will be closed for several weekends over the coming months so urgent repairs to a major bridge along the route can be carried out Works on the Pierre-Bénite viaduct – a bridge that crosses the Rhône a few kilometres south of Lyon – will take place throughout May and the beginning of June.  The bridge sees around 150,000 cars cross it every day and has been a key part of the motorway since it opened in 1966 the bridge will only be closed in one direction with traffic heading northbound (towards Lyon) impacted.  Repairs to the opposite side of the bridge will lead to closures in 2026 affecting drivers hearing south towards Marseille.  The bridge will be closed northbound on the following dates:  Tuesday 29 April 29 at 21:00 to Sunday May 4 at 12:00 Wednesday May 7 at 21:00 to Sunday May 11 at 12:00 Wednesday May 21 at 21:00 to Sunday June 1 at 12:00 Friday June 6 at 21:00 to Monday June 9 at 12:00  work may also be scheduled between June 13 - 16 and June 20 - June 23 if the bridge is not repaired by this time drivers heading into Lyon will need to take an alternative route using the A46 motorway and the eastern portion of the city’s ring road.  Read more: Map: where are there free motorways in France? The prefectural ban is set to remain in place until at least December 31 There are new boxes in the address and personal details page of the 2025 online declaration (for 2024 income) The geographical spread of Canadian nationals follows a similar pattern to Americans Jérôme Moroge (LR) a été réélu maire de Pierre-Bénite avec 63.48% des suffrages Afficher/Masquer plus d'articles sur le même sujet ↓ Lyon Mag vous permet de signaler les commentaires inappropriés Remplissez le formulaire en dessous pour nous avertir Copyright © Lyon Mag - Mentions légales - Politique des cookies - Contact Développé par Everlats