Search our site Menu Home About us Where we operate North America USA Atlas Point Our Local Delaware Community Croda’s Atlas Point site manufactures important ingredients that go into a variety of consumer and industrial products from cosmetics to paints and stains for your home. Our Atlas Point team of more than 240 employees are deeply committed to supporting, engaging and giving back to our neighbors and the Delaware business community in what we consider to be one of our “home towns.” -- Community Update for November 12, 2021 -- Croda Atlas Point is deeply committed to the safety of its employees and its community members. We are committed to ensuring safe operations at our plant and using our strong commitment to sustainability to continually improve our impact on the environment. We would like to share some key actions we have recently undertaken to improve the Croda Community Notification System (CCNS), installed to ensure our neighboring communities are alerted to any potential issues at our site. Mounting poles have been installed at each siren location. Siren equipment will be installed on the poles in November and will be operational before the end of the year. Over the summer, permanent easements were prepared by legal counsel to permit access to the properties owned by New Castle County and other private landowners to allow Croda the right to enter such properties for purposes of installing, maintaining and repairing the alarms and their associated utilities. The easements for all 3 locations have been signed and completed. On May 26, DNREC communicated they had no objections to the CCNS improvement plan as presented. In the spring, we communicated with various groups about the CCNS upgrade plan. We presented the updates to the CCNS plan to the Community Advisory Council (CAC) on June 2. We developed a CCNS plan flyer, which is posted below and available for download. We presented the CCNS plan to Wilmington Area Planning Council (Wilmapco) - Route 9 on May 13. We presented the CCNS plan to The Local Emergency Planning Commission for New Castle County (LEPC for NCC) on May 10. We presented the CCNS plan to the CAC on April 28. On March 26, Croda submitted a written plan for our siren project to DNREC. Prior to the plan submission to DNREC, Croda had: Engaged Delmarva Power during the week of March 15 and discussed access to utility rights of way for possible additional alarm locations. Reviewed alarm design with NCC Office of Emergency Management. Received preliminary design and modelling for alarm locations from vendor. Engaged with alarm vendor to evaluate potential additional siren locations. This notice and the expansion of our alarm system is undertaken as part of the settlement of an enforcement action. -- Operations Update -- We are committed to ensuring safe operations at our plant and using our strong commitment to sustainability to ensure we are continually improving any impact we may have on our local community. Having received permission from DNREC to restart our ethylene oxide plant on March 3, we began the process of restarting the EO plant on March 4 and have successfully resumed operations. Letters to the Community Croda Community Notification System Expansion Plan Proposal - March 2021 Download (pdf,314.3 KB) Croda Atlas Point Community Notification System -Proposal for System Expansion- May 2021 Download (pdf,674.8 KB) Community Information Line It is our duty to provide all the necessary communications to protect and enhance our relationship with the local community. As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our community members informed, we offer a Community Information Line for updates when needed to our neighbors. Croda Community Notification System Schedule Emergency Alert System Subscribe to our Mailing List To subscribe to the Croda Atlas Point Community Mailing List, please provide to us your name and email address. Croda Atlas Point will use your personal information to provide you with a newsletter regarding our manufacturing facilities in New Castle, Delaware on a regular basis, to provide you with notices and updates about maintenance, testing, training and other regular activities planned for our facilities, and to share with you important information in the event of an emergency. You can choose to discontinue receiving the newsletter, notices and updates, and any emergency communication from us at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at AtlasPoint.CE@croda.com. For more information on our privacy practices, please read our Privacy Policy. By providing to us your name and email address, and by clicking "Submit", you agree we may collect and process your information in accordance with these terms. First name Last name Email address Submit Unsubscribe Croda Atlas Point Community Mailing List Please confirm that you do not wish to receive our newsletter, notices and updates regarding our facilities, or information in the event of an emergency, and wish to be removed from the Croda Atlas Point Community Mailing List by providing your name and email address below and clicking "Submit". We will process your request to unsubscribe without undue delay. First name Last name Email address Submit What's that sound? The Croda Atlas Point site employs a variety of alarms both on site to notify employees of circumstances that require attention and offsite to notify our community members. We test both the community alarm and the main facility employee alarm on a regular schedule. In the event of an emergency, the main facility alarm will sound for 1 minute, followed by employee instructions. The community alarm will sound for 5 minutes with instructions on emergency broadcast stations. Read more about our community alarm systems. Community Advisory Council We maintain and facilitate an active Croda Atlas Point Community Advisory Council, which was established more than a decade ago. This group of community leaders meets with Croda officials quarterly to share news and collaborate on community-focused efforts. This important Council allows us to remain connected to our community and the members to help our community stay informed about developments at Atlas Point. Giving Back We support the local community through volunteering at local schools, community centers and clubs: Participating in the Junior Achievement STEM Showcases and educating students Volunteering at the Food Bank of Delaware to help with packing bags of food for under privileged children so they can have complete meals when they are not in school Hosting several Operation Gratitude donation campaigns Supporting Carrie Downey Elementary School Supply Drive by donating time and supplies for students and teachers A Safe and Sustainable Future Sustainability and safety are central to our business. Our Atlas Point facility is RC14001 ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 certified. We also derive more than 60% of the site’s energy requirements from renewable sources including landfill gas, solar energy, and green electricity. Atlas Point is certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to handle palm derivatives according to mass balance, supporting sustainable palm oil supply chains. We have a longstanding commitment to investing in sustainability and innovation, promoting best practice across the many industries we serve. 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