KemFine's Grangemouth Site has a long and illustrious history as a major chemical manufacturing site. Its origins date back to the early 1900s when Sir James Morton first began dyestuff manufacture in Scotland. 

Through the 1900s the Grangemouth Site has flourished under ICI, Zeneca, Avecia and, more recently, KemFine ownership to become a major manufacturing centre of excellence for Fine Chemicals.

KemFine provides exclusive custom chemical manufacturing services to its partners in the agrochemical, pharmaceutical and specialty chemical sectors.  KemFine acquired the Grangemouth site in September 2005 and employs ca. 200 in Helsinki, Espoo and Kokkola, Finland and ca. 280 in Grangemouth.

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As a leading COMAH site with a dedication and commitment to the highest standards of Safety Health & Environment (SHE), KemFine Grangemouth also enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the best performing chemical manufacturing sites in Europe.

Changes in the global demographics of the chemical industry, together with an increasing focus on innovation and smaller scale, higher value manufacturing, however, have enabled the release of up to 30 acres of prime brown field land for new development.

In partnership with Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley (SEFV), a site diversification programme has been launched to attract new business to the site. In addition, opportunities are also being pursued for the incremental increase in use of the Site's state-of-the-art Combined Heat & Power and Effluent Treatment facilities.

Over £3 million has been invested in land preparation programmes to ensure easy access to key utilities and services and to help facilitate the low cost entry and support for manufacturing or general commercial businesses moving to the site.

Earls Gate Park and Earls Gate Environmental Services were launched in March 2004 to bring together the combined skills of KemFine, SEFV and a number of specialist consultants to provide professional advice and support to potential new tenants.