Development of a business park plus logistic and warehouse optimisations

At an industrial site, an American chemical company used 35 hectares. They had a little more than 20 hectares available for others, and were looking for tenants, preferably with a link to the chemical branch.

The wish list included shared facilities, not only the more usual ones like security, cleaning, catering and waste, but if possible also more specific facilities, such as heat/steam or logistics/warehousing.
Especially those last options are where Henk Kolenbrander had the right expertise. He looked at stocks, total cost of ownership and optimisation in the entire chains of the chemical company and potential new tenants.

Once he was in position (for three days a week), Henk also had the opportunity to meet the American board. You can read more about this on the page International.

It soon became apparent that Henk’s experience was well suited towards a second project, which involved developing a multisource strategy for safeguarding the production of Opteon and its supply to customers. This project included among other things:

• evaluation of the production facilities and capacities from a technical perspective
• supplier selection
• making agreements with suppliers regarding several scenarios

This project was a combination of drafting, evaluating, acting as a sounding board, and contributing expertise and objectivity, all in close collaboration with management.

The result: an implementation plan!

Customer: Chemours, American chemical company, split off from DuPont in 2015.