Croda commences construction at Chocques manufacturing site for capacity expansion

01-Jul-16

Croda's groundbreaking ceremony at its Chocques manufacturing site in northern France signals the start of a major capital investment. The focus of the project is a new production facility that will increase capacity at the site by over 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 ranges, it will also significantly improve the flexibility of production across the site. By investing further in one of its core technologies, Croda will increase support to European customers in a wide range of industries from personal care, crop care, and health care, to specialty lubricants, polymers, and applications in oil, gas and mining.
During this groundbreaking event, 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 more than 90% of its steam and electricity requirements from very low carbon sources.