Esseco UK Limited

Esseco UK Limited manufactures inorganic sodium, ammonium and potassium derivatives from its original site on Calder Vale Road, Wakefield, first established in 1878 as Dyson Sons and Brotherton by Edward Brotherton. The current company was formed in 2006 as a joint venture between Esseco Group and Brotherton Speciality Products, with Esseco Group acquiring full ownership of the Brotherton business from Church & Dwight in 2008.

Esseco UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Esseco Group, a family-owned Italian industrial chemical group with more than a century of history in inorganic chemicals and winemaking products, operating in 15 countries with over 1,200 employees. The Wakefield site’s products, based on raw materials such as sulphur, carbon dioxide, ammonia and allyl chloride, are used in water treatment, oilfield services, food and animal feed, agriculture and specialised de-icing, and the company is certified to ISO 9001:2015.