Dunkerque ICD Platform Site Chosen By Belgian Group

After considering several sites on the North Sea coast, the Belgian industrial group ECOPHOS*, a supplier of technology and producer of food-grade phosphate, is to build its new production plant on the ICD* industrial platform in Mardyck, near Dunkirk (Dunkerque).

Last Friday, after a year’s work including a significant contribution by teams from ECOPHOS, TOTAL, Dunkerque-Port and Dunkerque Promotion as well as employees of Dunkirk Urban Community and the State, TOTAL Etablissement des Flandres* officially handed back to Dunkerque-Port a first section of the land of the ICD platform. This land relinquishment enabled ECOPHOS to sign the contract allowing it simultaneously to set up and operate its production unit.

The arrival of ECOPHOS in Dunkirk represents an investment of more than 75 million Euros and will result in the creation of 100 direct and indirect jobs by 2017. The traffic generated for Dunkerque-Port will reach 250,000 tonnes in imports of raw materials and exports of finished products. The construction works for the factory are scheduled to start in March.