opportunities

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The PCP particularly welcomes contact from innovative international companies who may be looking for a European launch platform. Similarly well established overseas distributors looking for new products are invited to approach us.

Benefits for investors include:

• Yorkshire & Humber concentration of a growing, innovative sector with presence of major players such as Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Croda trading globally
• Key design and formulation capability and capacity to underpin new product development
• Analytical capacity to support formulation approvals
• Local growth and extraction of natural ingredients for personal care and nutraceuticals
• Strong support for the cluster network and access to open innovation programmes
• The Yorkshire & Humber region provides superb opportunities for businesses and organisations looking to locate their operations and services. With a working economy matching the size of Belgium and a 4 hour proximity to over 40 million UK consumers the region also hosts the UK’s largest ports complex
• The region’s chemistry-using economy is one of the largest and most diversified within the UK. Its unique location and proximity to major UK agricultural sites are driving resurgence in natural & renewable product-based businesses and activities alongside the arrival of international investors associated with the advanced renewable fuel, energy and materials sectors
• The region enables investors and their businesses to connect to a world class academic and industry support base with particular strengths in organic synthesis, colour chemistry, nanomaterials, formulation and renewable chemistries. Investments in award winning university Centres of Industrial Collaboration and sector promotion and business support from the regional Personal care Programme complement a strong, relevant and sector specific support culture
• The supply chain is well established with over 70 companies and institutions spanning the full range of activities. These companies include multinationals, large national companies, and small and medium sized companies. Within the cluster companies are involved with hair care products, skin care products and companies with toiletries
• Companies include ingredient suppliers such as McIntyre Group, NK Chemicals, Croda plc, Vivimed/James Robinson, Rhodia Novecare, Stephenson Group and New Holland Extraction and formulators such as Salcura, Hallam Beauty, In-Line Cosmetics, Genese International, Bentley Organics, Ore-An, Power Health Products, Thornton & Ross, Unilever, and Reckitt Benckiser. Many of these companies undertake both formulation and manufacturing operations as part of their portfolio. Yorkshire & Humber based distributors directly involved in the personal care sector include: Albion Chemicals (part of the global Brenntag Group), Matrix Chemie (part of rapidly growing GRI Group), White Sea & Baltic and Surfachem (part of the Banner Group)
• There is an active cluster of new, small, innovative companies exploring new, natural, approved ingredients and delivery systems