Pentagon Chemicals has secured an allocation of £1M of RGF funding (subject to due diligence) to support its investment in its north west manufacturing plants.
The expansion of Pentagon’s production facilities at Halebank, Widnes, will help to underpin the company’s growth strategy by creating additional capacity to meet growing customer demand from existing products as well as its new product pipeline. This investment will allow Pentagon to maintain its high standards of customer focused, flexible manufacturing capability in order to support its clients’ sales into Global markets.
The RGF support for Fine Chemicals will also assist the Pentagon Group to achieve planned growth in the Workington-based Chemical Specialties business which will deliver its own self-funded capital investment programme.
This integrated plan will raise Pentagon Group annual sales beyond £50M during the next three years through organic growth of known products.
About Pentagon
Pentagon is a leading UK-based chemical manufacturer of organic intermediates for use in the life science, petrochemical, and speciality chemicals markets.
Offering exclusive synthesis and a wide range of own products the privately owned company has sales of over GBP 40M per annum and employs around 170 people at our ISO 9001 and 14001 accredited sites in Halebank and Workington. Approximately 75% of sales are to export markets.
Working in close collaboration with our customers we offer bespoke development and manufacturing services as well as an extensive range of high quality multi-application products centred on combining a commitment to operational excellence with strengths in core technologies of: benzylation, bromination, chlorination, Grignard reagents, maleinisation, phosgenation, sodium dispersion and Vilsmeier-Hack chemistry.
Wherever possible we seek to build secure, long term partnerships enabling the identification, development and production of new molecules to be backed with a guarantee of the highest levels of service, reliability and trust. From single stage reactions to innovative multi-stage synthesis our products can be found in many of today’s cutting edge applications including: agents for paper sizing, corrosion inhibitors for oil exploration, detergents & lubricants for improved engine efficiency, as well as catalysts for petrochemical refining, advanced intermediates for world leading cardiovascular and HIV drugs, herbicides, and finally active insecticides and rodenticides.
