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1:34 pm, June 29, 2009
PZ Cussons’ £26m innovation centre opens on Wednesday
By Michael Fahy
Stockport-based personal care products company PZ Cussons is to open its new £26m innovation centre at Agecroft, Salford on Wednesday.
The opening, which coincides with the firm’s 125th anniversary, will see 156 employees move into the building. It contains new R&D facilities including laboratories for new formulations, fragrances and a specialist liquid soaps research unit.
“Our UK business has been expanding rapidly and the significant investment in the Innovation Centre will provide the foundations for further long term growth,” said chief executive Alex Kanellis. “We’re committed to developing leading brands and aim to be a continued centre of excellence for the PZ Cussons global personal wash network.”
Some two-thirds of the employees on site will be production staff, with the remaining third working in research and development. The firm said that the new manufacturing facilities offer a much higher production capacity than at its previous sites at Kersal Vale and Ellesmere Port. It will begin production of Imperial Leather, Carex and the Morning Fresh washing up liquid range at the site this week and will produce Original Source once the final production line is installed in September.
The centre is based on the site of the former Agecroft Colliery. The land was purchased from the North West Regional Development Agency and the two-phase building project, which was undertaken by contractors CRBE and Manchester-based architect Bennetts, was completed in January.
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