EARLY HISTORY

John Blundell graduated as a Chemist at Manchester University and started his career as a Research Chemist at Lankro Chemicals in 1955. He later studied chemical engineering at night school and obtained AMI Chem Eng in 1961, eventually becoming Plant Manager of the General Chemicals Department. After 11 years at Lankro he moved to become the first Technical Director of Manro and helped to develop it into a multi-million turnover company. In 1971 he started Crewe Chemicals Limited, which became very successful, subsequently built three more factories and founded two more companies, including Pentagon Chemicals. In 1982 he started Agrotech International, a small company which focused on difficult manufacture, recovery and purification work for larger chemical companies. Agrotech became a respected and very successful operation.

RECENT, PRESENT AND FUTURE

In 1991 he sold Agrotech to BIP and started to build the new Centec operation. The Agrotech factory was the 5th that he had designed and built, but the new Centec complex is by far the most comprehensive and to the highest standard.

To date, we have carried out several (mainly R&D and contract manufacture) assignments for a number of clients including DuPont, CIBA (Grenzach), Brotherton, Zeneca, Nalco-Exxon, Manro, Seal Sands Chemicals and Courtaulds.