Guillaume Peron has been appointed site director at the Solvay chemical production site in Holywell Green.

Mr Peron succeeds John Hamnet, who was in the role for two years and has been with the company for more than two decades.

Solvay Halifax focuses on the manufacture of surfactants, which are used widely in shampoos and detergents, and biocides, which remove bacteria from water and are mainly for use in swimming pools.

The site has seen significant change in recent years, including the large-scale transfer of technology from the firm’s Leeds site and investment in a new production plant, which has seen it double in size in terms of both employees and manufacturing output.

Mr Peron, who lives at Rishworth, has been working the Holywell Green site as production manager since July last year and has been with the Solvay Group for eight years – originally working at the Clamecy site in France as process manager. He also spent 11 months working at Cambridge University in research and gained a PhD from Southampton University.

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