French flavours specialist expands
Expressions Aromatiques, a flavours specialist based in the Grasse region of France, has recently completed the extension of its premises, in order to significantly increase its production capacity.
An investment of €6m permitted the construction of a new building boosting production capacity. This new building includes new production workshops, an additional warehouse, a high capacity cold room as well as supplementary offices. The company’s R&D laboratories have also been extended and renovated.
The company has acquired a Roxane K robot, which can process up to 600 raw materials. This weighing robot, which is completely automated, is mostly used for samples and concentrated aromatic bases. This new modular equipment enables the production of several formulations at the same time, hence increasing the productivity. The Roxane robot acquisition, combined with an electronic scanning device for raw materials, ensures complete product traceability.
Along with the extension of the facilities, the company improved the air processing system of its production workshops and the laboratories in order to safeguard the technical operatives and ensure a neutral olfactory atmosphere. The company has also built a new cold room with a deodorised air impulse and an extraction system, preventing olfactory contamination during flavours storage (raw materials, semi-finished and finished products).
