Contract Blending

Toll manufacturing 

Choosing our toll manufacturing service has many advantages: it’s a flexible, dynamic, scalable and cost-effective way to meet your product requirements. You benefit from the expertise of our talented team and our extensive capabilities – the product of over 50 years’ investment and innovation.

• Lower manufacturing costs – Save on large capital investment by taking advantage of our chemical manufacturing resources. Run a clear budget and eliminate costs associated with using in-house facilities.
• Scalability and flexibility – Ramp up or scale back in line with your needs. We have the resources, facilities and capabilities to bespoke manufacture in volumes from one to 60 tonnes.
• Unrivalled technical insight – Benefit from the expertise, passion and knowledge of the Airedale Group team, freeing up resources in your own organisation.
• Time-efficient – From chemical product discovery to delivery, we’ve developed the perfect CM process, drastically streamlining your time-to-market.
• Safeguarding your intellectual property – Confidentiality is guaranteed and customers maintain exclusive control over ideas, products and processes. Our customers return to us time again because of their trust in us.
• One-to-one account management – We build a strong relationship with all clients by absorbing ourselves in each project, working closely with you at all stages to ensure the perfect end product, on budget and on schedule.

We have developed a simple four-step process to optimise the toll manufacturing process, from theory to delivery

Chemistry capabilities

• Liquid to liquid chemical blends
• Powder to liquid chemical blends
• Heated or cold blending
• Non-flammable aqueous chemical-based solutions
• Phosphate chemistry
• Reaction chemical processing (Dependent upon REACH position)
• Emulsions (which are already emulsions)
• Low Flash Point Chemistry
✗ High flash point solvent chemistry
✗ High hazard chemistry

Advanced facilities

• 25 storage tanks with combined capacity of just over 1164,000 litres.
• 7 mixing vessels with combined capacity of 154,500 litres.
• 4 reactor vessels with combined capacity of 56,000 litres.
• 9 warehouses totaling 78,000 sq.ft inc 41,000 sq temperature controlled.
• 42,000 sq.ft of hard standing storage.
• Small packing facility capacity of 480 units per hour.
• On-site chemical effluent treatment facility for safe handling and disposal of acids and alkalis via pH correction.

We continue to invest in our ever-evolving site making it as efficient as possible.

State-of-the-art vessels

• Vessels constructed from 316 stainless steel
• Dip tubed vessels that negate splash fill
• Sub-surface filling via bottom outlets – ideal for foamy products
• Bladed stirrers, big-paddled stirrers

Packaging to suit you

• 1L
• 5L
• 10L
• 20L
• 25L
• 30L
• 200L
• 1000L Pressure Bin
• Bulk (Iso or Tanker)

In-house expertise

• Formulation benchmarking – commercial scale product solutions created from customer briefs.
• Formulation comparative analysis – analysing contents and replicating product make-up to match competitors.
• Green tech conversion – redevelopment of products using sugar-based surfactants to enhance green credentials.

Ensuring the highest standards of quality

• Quality Control Testing

• pH

• Specific gravity

• Solid content

• Concentration
• Physical analysis of colour, turbidity and viscosity
• Stability testing

• Freeze and thaw

• 4°C, 40°C and ambient temperature testing

Powder Blending Solutions

We can offer professional powder blending facilities for industrial chemicals with dedicated account management for an easy-to-use and cost-effective service.

• 500kg and 1000kg batch sizes

• Ribbon blenders

• Efficient production, preparation and process pipeline

• In-house-technical expertise

• Formulation support

• For use in industries including waste treatment, paper, electroplating and wax manufacture

To speak with one of our experts about your powder blending needs, call us on 01535 637876 or email us at enquiries@airedale-group.com.

Certified and accredited

Enjoy peace of mind knowing that our contract manufacturing processes are carried out to the highest standards and overseen by our dedicated health, safety and compliance departments.

• ISO 9001:2015 certified
• ISO 14001: 2015 certified
• SQAS Accreditation
• UVDB Achilles – Category B2
• FORS Bronze Accreditation
• EPR (IPPC) license
• Sedex B Approved
• BRCGS (Food and beverage division)

Get in touch with our contract manufacturing sales team today