NEOCORK AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Sittard-Geleen, October 18] Chemelot is housing more than 60 complementary companies on its industrial park and Research & Business Campus such as leading material suppliers DSM and SABIC. Neocork’s new 2,242m2 premises on Chemelot site will allow Neocork to meet European customer demand of at least 1 billion Neocorks per year. “Chemelot’s proximity to both our key vendors and customer base, along with access to Chemelot’s state-of-the-science research & development competences, provides us with the unique ability to ensure Neocork remains at the forefront of synthetic cork technology while offering our customers excellent speed of service at a most competitive price.” says Neocork’s Business Development Director, Mark Coleman. “We are very excited to welcome an innovative, quality & research-driven company like Neocork to Chemelot. Benefiting from the proximity of world class performance materials companies in combination with Chemelot’s open innovation infrastructure we believe Neocork will continue to advance the technologies and benefits of synthetic corks for years to come”, says Frank Schaap, Chemelot’s Manager of Business Development and Acquisitions. “It feels good to see that in close cooperation with the regional development agency LIOF we are able to convince American companies like Neocork to set up their European headquarter and operations in the Limburg area.” Schaap says. Neocork Since its inception in 1996, Neocork’s co-extrusion technology has fast become the preferred synthetic closure type by thousands of wineries, distributors and retailers around the world.
Neocork Technologies, Inc. has recently signed a lease agreement for its European manufacturing, processing and distribution headquarters to be relocated in the state-of-the-art Chemelot Research & Business Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands.
Neocork Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Napa, California, invented, manufactures and markets the multi-patented Neocork brand synthetic cork, made using its proprietary co-extrusion process. This continuous process ensures Neocork #1 looks and performs exactly like Neocork #1,000,000. In addition, co-extrusion allows Neocork to use only the purest food grade materials and the ability to continue advancing the science of synthetic cork technology by developing and offering wineries a variety of synthetic closure options best suited for their particular wine’s lifecycle, price-point or market requirements.
Chemelot
In the field of investments for the chemical industry Chemelot is an important business partner in Western Europe. Chemelot is the independent chemical and sciences park in the Euregio Maas Rhine. Site users find excellent manufacturing capabilities and industrial services, together with an open attitude towards innovation, high chem and performance materials developments. DSM, Sabic, Sekisui, Nanospecials and many other companies are hosted on the Chemelot site. Furthermore Chemelot is an innovative chemical community, with an excellent infrastructure and perfect logistics via water, rail and road. The Chemelot community in Geleen has all ingredients for so called accelerated business growth, driven by new investments in research activities; all kind of new start-ups and an innovative open campus. In many different ways Chemelot has a high added value in realizing innovative plans and investments in chemical activities.
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