05.04.16
Croda recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Chocques manufacturing site in northern France which signals the start of a €18 million capital investment.
The focus of the project is a new alkoxylation production facility that will increase capacity at the site by 20% when it becomes fully operational in early 2017. The extra volume will not only allow Croda to meet the ever increasing demand for some of its most renowned surfactants within the Tween, Brij and Myrj range, it will also significantly improve the flexibility of production across the site.
By investing further into one of its core technologies, Croda will repatriation the manufacture of alkoxylated products to Chocques, allowing them to fully service European customers more locally in a wide range of industries from personal care, crop care, and health care, to specialty lubricants, polymers, and applications into oil, gas and mining.
At the groundbreaking ceremony Steve Foots, CEO of Croda said: “It’s great to be here with other members of the Croda Executive Committee to mark the launch of the construction phase of this major investment at our Chocques site. This significant increase in production capacity is a strategic investment to ensure that the site can continue to play its role in supporting our global business. We are delighted to be building a full alkoxylation reactor train in the heart of the site, and hope to be supporting this front end and back end manufacturing facility with further investment on product finishing in the near future.”
During this groundbreaking event, a new utilities infrastructure at the site was also officially opened. This will see Chocques further improve its efficiency, reliability and sustainability performance; it already obtains 93 percent of its steam requirements and 90 percent of electricity from low carbon sources.
The focus of the project is a new alkoxylation production facility that will increase capacity at the site by 20% when it becomes fully operational in early 2017. The extra volume will not only allow Croda to meet the ever increasing demand for some of its most renowned surfactants within the Tween, Brij and Myrj range, it will also significantly improve the flexibility of production across the site.
By investing further into one of its core technologies, Croda will repatriation the manufacture of alkoxylated products to Chocques, allowing them to fully service European customers more locally in a wide range of industries from personal care, crop care, and health care, to specialty lubricants, polymers, and applications into oil, gas and mining.
At the groundbreaking ceremony Steve Foots, CEO of Croda said: “It’s great to be here with other members of the Croda Executive Committee to mark the launch of the construction phase of this major investment at our Chocques site. This significant increase in production capacity is a strategic investment to ensure that the site can continue to play its role in supporting our global business. We are delighted to be building a full alkoxylation reactor train in the heart of the site, and hope to be supporting this front end and back end manufacturing facility with further investment on product finishing in the near future.”
During this groundbreaking event, a new utilities infrastructure at the site was also officially opened. This will see Chocques further improve its efficiency, reliability and sustainability performance; it already obtains 93 percent of its steam requirements and 90 percent of electricity from low carbon sources.