Strategic Baseby EurostatecraftA source-linked European profile of propulsion-grade ammonium perchlorate synthesis, conditioning, upstream dependence, qualification and expansion evidence.
Current synthesis is directly evidenced at Toulouse and a June 2026 investigation reports a 5,000 t/y annual production baseline, but that output-like figure is not recast as current nameplate capacity.
ArianeGroup advertises AP products and logistics services, which establishes merchant orientation but not annual external capacity, uncommitted allocation or programme interchangeability.
The retained sources do not quantify current output, commitments, inventories, accepted alternative sources or allocatable customer-grade tonnage.
Comparable current annual AP capacity. Current synthesis is evidenced and a secondary source reports a 5,000 t/y annual-production baseline, but no retained source establishes a comparable current AP nameplate figure.
The useful chain runs through precursor continuity, synthesis, particle control, formulation and motor acceptance.
Ammonium perchlorate is the oxidiser in conventional composite solid propellants used in civil launchers and military rocket motors; particle size, distribution, purity and accepted source remain part of the usable material definition.
Commodity perchlorate salts, laboratory AP, waste AP, destruction throughput and downstream propellant tonnage are excluded from current propulsion-grade AP production. Synthesis, grinding, blending, storage, formulation and motor qualification remain distinct industrial states.
The map preserves each industrial function and keeps all undisclosed current quantities null.
Active merchant-facing
Current production or conditioning is evidenced and external sale or service is explicit; uncommitted volume is not implied.
Active integrated or strategic
Current capability is evidenced inside an integrated or sovereign chain; exclusive captive use is not implied.
Conversion
An existing industrial asset has a sourced conversion plan but accepted output is not yet evidenced.
Planned
A sourced project or programme exists without evidenced commissioned output.
Legacy or inactive
Historic capability is retained for lineage but is excluded from the current footprint.
FR · ACTIVE MERCHANTFR · PLANNEDFR · ACTIVE CAPTIVEFR · ACTIVE CAPTIVEFR · PLANNED| Site / control | Profile state | Production role | Capacity evidence | Market access |
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SITEToulouse AP synthesis siteFrance · ArianeGroup ArianeGroup-operated French site; programme and customer allocation are undisclosed.AP-CLM-003AP-CLM-004AP-CLM-005AP-CLM-008AP-CLM-014AP-CLM-015AP-CLM-020 |
ACTIVE_MERCHANT Current AP production and a public AP product offer are explicit; the profile does not infer uncommitted volume. |
Synthesis and crystallisation of propulsion-grade ammonium perchlorate for civil and military solid propulsion. | UNDISCLOSEDUNDISCLOSED | Merchant-facing ArianeGroup publishes an AP product specification and offers export, transport, storage and analysis support; customer allocation is undisclosed. REPORTED |
SITESaint-Médard-en-Jalles CentreFrance · ArianeGroup ArianeGroup-operated integrated propulsion site.AP-CLM-006AP-CLM-017 |
ACTIVE_CAPTIVE Current AP transformation for the M51 chain is explicit; external conditioning services are not established. |
Transformation and conditioning of ammonium perchlorate for M51 solid propellant, plus end-of-life treatment capability. | UNDISCLOSEDUNDISCLOSED | Integrated use The retained source identifies M51-linked transformation and does not disclose external conditioning allocation. REPORTED |
SITESainte-Hélène AP siteFrance · ArianeGroup ArianeGroup-operated Seveso upper-tier establishment attached to Saint-Médard-en-Jalles Centre.AP-CLM-007 |
ACTIVE_CAPTIVE The official filing reports authorised AP storage and mixing; it does not establish independent synthesis or merchant allocation. |
Ammonium-perchlorate processing, mixing and strategic storage. | UNDISCLOSEDUNDISCLOSED | Integrated infrastructure The retained official source describes an internal supply-resilience role, not external market access. REPORTED |
Product marketing, integrated programme use and uncommitted supply answer different questions.
ArianeGroup publishes a product specification, export-licensing support and transport services. The sources do not quantify external allocation or customer commitments.
The same industrial chain also supports Ariane and M51 applications and includes integrated conditioning and storage in Gironde; programme allocation is undisclosed.
The bounded current map identifies one directly evidenced propulsion-grade AP synthesis site at Toulouse and separate conditioning or storage infrastructure around Saint-Médard and Sainte-Hélène. A June 2026 investigation reports a 5,000 t/y annual-production baseline, but it is not independently confirmed as current output or nameplate and says nothing about allocation. The evidence supports a concentration signal, not a quantified shortage finding.
Permit existence, reported target capacity, commissioning and qualified output remain separate evidence states.
Secondary reporting describes annual production rising from 5,000 to 8,000 t/y; the official permit records 2,094 m² of new industrial surface but no process capacity.
AP-CLM-020AP-CLM-021Proposed two-month sodium-perchlorate decoupling stock based on a reported 28 t/day consumption assumption.
AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-019| Site / control | Profile state | Production role | Capacity state | Market access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PROGRAMMEToulouse AP expansionFrance · ArianeGroup ArianeGroup construction project evidenced by an official April 2026 permit and a June 2026 investigation of project documents.AP-CLM-020AP-CLM-021 |
PLANNED The permit and reported annual-production target establish a live project; commissioning and accepted additional output are not evidenced. |
A reported second AP production workshop associated with a planned 3,000 t/y increase in annual production. | +3,000 t/y plannedMARKET ESTIMATEANNOUNCED TARGET | Planned mixed use The Toulouse production chain serves civil and military applications, but future project allocation and qualified grade mix are undisclosed. REPORTED |
PROGRAMMESainte-Hélène sodium-perchlorate decoupling stockFrance · ArianeGroup Company project described in a public regulatory notification.AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-019 |
PLANNED The 2024 filing establishes the proposal and planning basis; current commissioning status is not retained. |
Upstream sodium-perchlorate solution storage intended to protect Toulouse AP production against supplier interruption. | UNDISCLOSEDUNDISCLOSED | Not an AP sale The project is an internal raw-material buffer and does not itself create merchant AP capacity. REPORTED |
Historic source qualification and current product specifications show why substitution cannot be reduced to formula identity.
ArianeGroup's 2024 filing describes sodium perchlorate as necessary to Toulouse AP production and proposes a two-month buffer; Arkema's current Jarrie profile separately identifies sodium perchlorate for Ariane rocket fuel.
AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-022The product sheet distinguishes crystallised and ground sizes, controlled particle shape and custom distributions; formula identity alone does not establish formulation interchangeability.
AP-CLM-005Saint-Médard and Sainte-Hélène perform transformation, processing or storage functions distinct from Toulouse synthesis.
AP-CLM-006AP-CLM-007ESA's 1995 account ties introduction of a European AP source to a booster qualification test before dual procurement became possible.
AP-CLM-012Official launcher sources place AP with aluminium and polybutadiene in composite solid propellant mixed and cast at the downstream plant.
AP-CLM-002AP-CLM-013The Toulouse site operates under authorisation and Seveso upper-tier status, and an April 2026 permit records new industrial construction; neither source establishes commissioning or qualification lead time.
AP-CLM-008AP-CLM-021The next decision value comes from current capacity, allocation, accepted-source and transfer-time evidence.
The bounded current map identifies one directly evidenced propulsion-grade AP synthesis site at Toulouse and separate conditioning or storage infrastructure around Saint-Médard and Sainte-Hélène. A June 2026 investigation reports a 5,000 t/y annual-production baseline, but it is not independently confirmed as current output or nameplate and says nothing about allocation. The evidence supports a concentration signal, not a quantified shortage finding.
The bounded current map identifies one directly evidenced propulsion-grade AP synthesis site at Toulouse and separate conditioning or storage infrastructure around Saint-Médard and Sainte-Hélène. A June 2026 investigation reports a 5,000 t/y annual-production baseline, but it is not independently confirmed as current output or nameplate and says nothing about allocation. The evidence supports a concentration signal, not a quantified shortage finding.
Confidence MEDIUM HIGH
AP-CLM-003AP-CLM-006AP-CLM-007AP-CLM-009AP-CLM-015AP-CLM-020Two intervention surfaces are visible but not commissioned in the retained evidence: a reported Toulouse annual-production rise from 5,000 to 8,000 t/y alongside an official construction permit, and a Sainte-Hélène proposal for two months of sodium-perchlorate decoupling stock based on 28 t/day consumption. Neither can yet be counted as accepted additional AP supply.
Confidence HIGH ON PROJECT EXISTENCE LOW ON COMMISSIONING
AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-019AP-CLM-020AP-CLM-021No Europe-wide AP surplus, deficit, bottleneck quantity or twelve-month motor-output loss is emitted because current supply, imports, qualified interchangeability, inventories, commitments and dated demand are not joined.
Confidence HIGH
AP-CLM-015AP-CLM-020AP substitution is not safely modelled as tonne-for-tonne chemistry. Current product evidence exposes particle-size and distribution choices, while ESA's historic Ariane account shows a new European AP source passing through motor qualification before it enabled dual procurement.
Confidence HIGH ON MECHANISM LOW ON CURRENT DURATION
AP-CLM-005AP-CLM-012Obtain current nameplate, actual output, utilisation, inventories, customer commitments and external allocation by AP grade and particle distribution.
Decision value: Separates visible concentration from an actual twelve-month supply constraint.
AP-CLM-003AP-CLM-005AP-CLM-015AP-CLM-020Resolve construction and commissioning of the reported Toulouse 3,000 t/y increment and the Sainte-Hélène sodium-perchlorate store, including accepted output and usable inventory policy.
Decision value: Separates permitted or proposed interventions from twelve-month qualified supply.
AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-019AP-CLM-020AP-CLM-021Map AP source, particle distribution, conditioning route and qualification status by European motor family without publishing sensitive formulation detail.
Decision value: Identifies where a chemically available tonne is not a qualified tonne.
AP-CLM-005AP-CLM-012Run bounded official, regulatory and company checks for current European AP synthesis and qualified non-European imports.
Decision value: Can confirm or overturn the provisional one-site concentration reading.
AP-CLM-009AP-CLM-015Join AP supply only to formulation-compatible mixing, casting, curing and motor acceptance records.
Decision value: Prevents launcher or motor tonnes from being mistaken for upstream chemical capacity.
AP-CLM-002AP-CLM-013Would change: The current supply baseline and expansion headroom.
Would change: The uncommitted merchant-supply finding.
Would change: The concentration and substitution assessment.
Would change: The upstream interruption-resilience finding.
Would change: The location and recoverability of the upstream constraint.
Would change: The expansion timeline, qualified increment and twelve-month intervention value.
Would change: The twelve-month disruption counterfactual.
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AP-CLM-001OBSERVED · Scope: EU military-list classification
Limitation: A control-list entry establishes regulated military relevance, not production, scarcity or programme use.
AP-SRC-001AP-SRC-001ML8.d.2 — oxidisersThe EU military list names AP, CAS 7790-98-9, among controlled oxidisers.AP-CLM-002REPORTED · Scope: Ariane 5 booster formulation role
Limitation: Ariane 5 is a historic civil-launcher example and does not disclose current European defence formulations.
AP-SRC-002AP-SRC-002Ariane 5 boosters — propellant constituentsESA assigns oxidiser, reducer and binder roles to AP, aluminium and polybutadiene.AP-CLM-003REPORTED · Scope: Current Toulouse production role
Limitation: The page does not publish annual capacity, output, utilisation or allocation.
AP-SRC-003AP-SRC-003Toulouse site sectionThe current facility page identifies Toulouse AP development and production for Ariane 6 and M51 but gives no annual tonnes.AP-CLM-004REPORTED · Scope: Supplier capability and product positioning
Limitation: This is a first-party marketing claim and does not establish market share or Europe-wide exclusivity.
AP-SRC-004AP-SRC-004Pages 1–2 — product role, typical analysis and associated servicesThe product sheet covers AP synthesis, particle sizes and distribution, hazards, logistics and customer services without an annual capacity or allocation figure.AP-CLM-005OBSERVED · Scope: Published AP product specification
Limitation: Published typical analysis does not establish every customer acceptance specification or batch conformance.
AP-SRC-004AP-SRC-004Pages 1–2 — product role, typical analysis and associated servicesThe product sheet covers AP synthesis, particle sizes and distribution, hazards, logistics and customer services without an annual capacity or allocation figure.AP-CLM-006REPORTED · Scope: Current Gironde AP functions
Limitation: The site page does not publish throughput, exact process boundaries or external market access.
AP-SRC-003AP-SRC-003Saint-Médard-en-Jalles Centre site sectionThe site page identifies M51-linked AP transformation and the attached Sainte-Hélène processing and storage site.AP-CLM-007REPORTED · Scope: Sainte-Hélène current regulatory operating context
Limitation: The filing does not disclose annual AP throughput or synthesis capability.
AP-SRC-007AP-SRC-007Section 1 Introduction — current activities and project objectiveThe filing describes authorised AP storage and mixing and proposes a two-month sodium-perchlorate buffer based on 28 t/day to secure Toulouse production.AP-CLM-008OBSERVED · Scope: Current Toulouse regulatory state
Limitation: An authorisation record does not establish current production quantity or expansion permission.
AP-SRC-005AP-SRC-005Establishment header and rubrique 4749The official register marks the Toulouse establishment operating with authorisation, Seveso upper-tier and authorised for ammonium perchlorate.AP-CLM-009REPORTED · Scope: Historic Europe-wide producer statement retained by an official technical portal
Limitation: The underlying manufacturer evidence is from 2012–2013; it does not prove that no other producer exists in 2026.
AP-SRC-006AP-SRC-006Données économiques — production and capacity paragraphsINERIS retains the historic sole-European-manufacturer statement and dated Toulouse capacity and production values.AP-CLM-010REPORTED · Scope: Historic Toulouse capacity and output evidence
Limitation: The values are old, differ in scope and are not current capacity; the profile excludes them from current headline signals.
AP-SRC-006AP-SRC-006Données économiques — production and capacity paragraphsINERIS retains the historic sole-European-manufacturer statement and dated Toulouse capacity and production values.AP-CLM-011REPORTED · Scope: Reported upstream resilience project and planning basis
Limitation: The 28 t/day value is a sodium-perchlorate consumption assumption, not AP output, and the source does not establish commissioning.
AP-SRC-007AP-SRC-007Section 1 Introduction — current activities and project objectiveThe filing describes authorised AP storage and mixing and proposes a two-month sodium-perchlorate buffer based on 28 t/day to secure Toulouse production.AP-CLM-012REPORTED · Scope: Historic AP source-change qualification mechanism
Limitation: The event does not quantify present-day qualification time or prove the same process for every missile motor.
AP-SRC-008AP-SRC-008Paragraph 3 — European AP source and dual procurementESA links a satisfactory booster qualification test using European-source AP to future dual procurement.AP-CLM-013REPORTED · Scope: Downstream European launcher propellant process
Limitation: The downstream process does not identify AP source, annual AP demand or defence-motor compatibility.
AP-SRC-009AP-SRC-009Usine de Propergol de Guyane descriptionCNES describes mixing aluminium powder, AP and polybutadiene resin in the downstream solid-propellant plant.AP-CLM-014REPORTED · Scope: Published AP merchant-service capability
Limitation: Services and product availability do not establish uncommitted annual tonnage or acceptance by a new customer.
AP-SRC-004AP-SRC-004Pages 1–2 — product role, typical analysis and associated servicesThe product sheet covers AP synthesis, particle sizes and distribution, hazards, logistics and customer services without an annual capacity or allocation figure.AP-CLM-015INFERRED · Scope: Bounded current capacity and allocation check
Limitation: Non-disclosure in first-party sources is not proof that the secondary estimate is wrong or that the operator or authorities lack the data.
AP-SRC-003AP-SRC-004AP-SRC-003Toulouse site sectionThe current facility page identifies Toulouse AP development and production for Ariane 6 and M51 but gives no annual tonnes.AP-SRC-004Pages 1–2 — product role, typical analysis and associated servicesThe product sheet covers AP synthesis, particle sizes and distribution, hazards, logistics and customer services without an annual capacity or allocation figure.AP-CLM-017REPORTED · Scope: End-of-life AP destruction throughput
Limitation: Destruction throughput is not production, current inventory or usable supply and is excluded from capacity totals.
AP-SRC-010AP-SRC-010Licorne biological treatment facilityArianeGroup reports 300 t/y AP elimination capability at Saint-Médard, an end-of-life throughput distinct from production.AP-CLM-019INFERRED · Scope: Bounded project-status check
Limitation: Absence of a commissioning record in the retained tranche is not evidence of cancellation or non-completion.
AP-SRC-007AP-SRC-007Section 1 Introduction — current activities and project objectiveThe filing describes authorised AP storage and mixing and proposes a two-month sodium-perchlorate buffer based on 28 t/day to secure Toulouse production.AP-CLM-020REPORTED · Scope: Reported Toulouse annual-production baseline and project target
Limitation: This is secondary reporting from project documents, not independently observed current output, confirmed nameplate, an audited company disclosure, commissioned capacity, accepted grade mix or uncommitted supply.
AP-SRC-011AP-SRC-011Article body — reported 5,000 t/y annual production and 8,000 t/y project targetThe investigation reports annual production of 5,000 t/y and a project target of 8,000 t/y after a second workshop, a planned 3,000 t/y increase.AP-CLM-021OBSERVED · Scope: Official Toulouse expansion construction record
Limitation: The permit row does not disclose AP process capacity, workshop-level surface, commissioning, output or qualification.
AP-SRC-012AP-SRC-012Permit 0315552500683 — decision date and industrial surface fieldsThe official row records authorisation on 9 April 2026 and 2,094 square metres of newly created industrial surface at the ArianeGroup address.AP-CLM-022OBSERVED · Scope: Current evidenced upstream sodium-perchlorate node
Limitation: The page's 350,000-tonne figure covers all products manufactured at Jarrie and is not sodium-perchlorate capacity, output or available allocation.
AP-SRC-013AP-SRC-013Jarrie production-site page — products and applicationsArkema lists sodium perchlorate at Jarrie and identifies it as an input for Ariane rocket fuel; the site's aggregate production figure is not product-specific.AP-PASS-001The EU military list names AP, CAS 7790-98-9, among controlled oxidisers.
AP-SRC-001AP-CLM-001AP-PASS-002ESA assigns oxidiser, reducer and binder roles to AP, aluminium and polybutadiene.
AP-SRC-002AP-CLM-002AP-PASS-003The current facility page identifies Toulouse AP development and production for Ariane 6 and M51 but gives no annual tonnes.
AP-SRC-003AP-CLM-003AP-CLM-015AP-PASS-004The site page identifies M51-linked AP transformation and the attached Sainte-Hélène processing and storage site.
AP-SRC-003AP-CLM-006AP-PASS-005The product sheet covers AP synthesis, particle sizes and distribution, hazards, logistics and customer services without an annual capacity or allocation figure.
AP-SRC-004AP-CLM-004AP-CLM-005AP-CLM-014AP-CLM-015AP-PASS-006The official register marks the Toulouse establishment operating with authorisation, Seveso upper-tier and authorised for ammonium perchlorate.
AP-SRC-005AP-CLM-008AP-PASS-007INERIS retains the historic sole-European-manufacturer statement and dated Toulouse capacity and production values.
AP-SRC-006AP-CLM-009AP-CLM-010AP-PASS-008The filing describes authorised AP storage and mixing and proposes a two-month sodium-perchlorate buffer based on 28 t/day to secure Toulouse production.
AP-SRC-007AP-CLM-007AP-CLM-011AP-CLM-019AP-PASS-009ESA links a satisfactory booster qualification test using European-source AP to future dual procurement.
AP-SRC-008AP-CLM-012AP-PASS-010CNES describes mixing aluminium powder, AP and polybutadiene resin in the downstream solid-propellant plant.
AP-SRC-009AP-CLM-013AP-PASS-011ArianeGroup reports 300 t/y AP elimination capability at Saint-Médard, an end-of-life throughput distinct from production.
AP-SRC-010AP-CLM-017AP-PASS-012The investigation reports annual production of 5,000 t/y and a project target of 8,000 t/y after a second workshop, a planned 3,000 t/y increase.
AP-SRC-011AP-CLM-020AP-PASS-013The official row records authorisation on 9 April 2026 and 2,094 square metres of newly created industrial surface at the ArianeGroup address.
AP-SRC-012AP-CLM-021AP-PASS-014Arkema lists sodium perchlorate at Jarrie and identifies it as an input for Ariane rocket fuel; the site's aggregate production figure is not product-specific.
AP-SRC-013AP-CLM-022AP-SRC-001Council of the European Union · 13 March 2026
OFFICIAL EU CONTROL LIST · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-002European Space Agency · Date not published
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME TECHNICAL PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-003ArianeGroup · Date not published
FIRST PARTY FACILITY PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-004ArianeGroup · Date not published
FIRST PARTY PRODUCT SPECIFICATION · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-005Géorisques — French Ministry for Ecological Transition · Date not published
OFFICIAL FACILITY REGISTER · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-006INERIS · 29 March 2024
OFFICIAL TECHNICAL SUBSTANCE PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-007Préfecture de la Gironde / ArianeGroup · 26 June 2024
REGULATORY APPLICATION · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-008European Space Agency · 24 July 1995
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME QUALIFICATION ANNOUNCEMENT · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-009Centre Spatial Guyanais / CNES · Date not published
OFFICIAL FACILITY PROCESS PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-010ArianeGroup · Date not published
FIRST PARTY PROCESS PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-011Mediacités · 8 June 2026
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING FROM PROJECT DOCUMENTS · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-012Service des données et études statistiques — Sitadel · 9 April 2026
OFFICIAL CONSTRUCTION PERMIT DATA · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →AP-SRC-013Arkema · Date not published
FIRST PARTY FACILITY PROFILE · accessed 2026-08-28
Open public source →| Date | Version | Change |
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| 2026-08-28 | 0.1.0 | Initial moving-current AP publication: Toulouse synthesis and reported 5,000 t/y annual-production baseline retained outside capacity, reported 3,000 t/y project increase with official permit corroboration, Gironde conditioning and storage, Jarrie sodium-perchlorate input, historic-capacity boundary, upstream buffer, particle-distribution gate and historic qualification evidence. |
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