Ineos Silicas.

Ineos Silicas is a world leader in silica and alumina technology, with over 900 employees and 8 manufacturing sites in 5 continents.

There products include liquid and solid silicates, gel and precipitated silicas, and a range of zeolites for detergent and other applications, including personal care, food and beverages, paints, plastics and a number of industrial applications.

The Warrington site dates back to 1815 when Joseph Crosfield established a soapery, the soap works remained a successful family business for nearly 100 years.

In 1911 Brunner, Mond and Co., purchased the company, and then in 1919 Lever Brothers, a well-known soap manufacturer, acquired Crosfield. In 1929 Lever Brothers merged with the Dutch Margarine Union to form Unilever, and Crosfield was to remain a subsiduary of Unilever until 1997.

The Unilever Speciality Chemicals companies, including Crosfield, were acquired by ICI in July 1997. In 2001, Ineos Capital purchased Crosfield and renamed the entire company, Ineos Silicas.

Ineos Silicas is part of the main Ineos Group.

Myself and The New Mendoza stumbled across this place whilst looking at another site in the area and where so taken back with the scale and impressive strutures of the place we agreed we really needed to see more of the place.

The site is very much active and with people all over the place we knew this was going to be difficult, so a few days later we hatched a cunning plan ;) the only way in was through the front door so there was only one thing for it, we had to look like we worked there and blend in.

So and early morning visit to the local DIY store with The Fox and 3 Hard Hats later we made our way to our tuffest challenge yet!

So suited and booted, high viz and hard hats on we boldly walked straight in the main entrance and wandered unchallenged around the entire site looking like we owned the place, think they must of thought we where management ;)

The ironic thing is though as we where exploring this monster of a live site we stumbled across a derelict section! A bonus indeed and a vast amount of things still in situ, totaly unexpected but most welcomed lol.

This has to be one of the most audacious and insane explores we have done to date, but worth every second, Perfectly executed in every way and another live site conquered. :)