Atlas Point

Croda develops and manufactures high-performance ingredients and technologies featured in many popular consumer brands as well as health and crop care products. At our Atlas Point manufacturing site, 100% of our electricity is renewable thanks to onsite solar fields, use of landfill gas, and wind energy. We manufacture 100% bio-based surfactants, the first of their kind in the U.S., which are found in soaps, makeup, and cleaning supplies, among other products. Atlas Point’s sustainable practices support Croda’s 1.5°C science-based target and its wider sustainability Commitment to become Climate Positive. Atlas Point is home to an R&D innovation lab and Croda’s community engagement team, which strives to make a positive impact in New Castle.

Approximately 240 employees make up our Atlas Point team, including union members with United Steelworkers AFL-CIO-CLC, Local #12886. We are all deeply committed to supporting our neighbors and the Delaware business community through our engagement efforts and dedication to sustainability.

Have questions about Atlas Point? Contact our Community Engagement team via email, AtlasPoint.CE@croda.com, or via our Community Information Line, +1 (302) 429-5474.

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Croda Inc is the North American headquarters for Croda, with over 955 employees, working in a variety of roles in manufacturing, sales, marketing and research and development.

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About Our Facility

Croda Atlas Point is deeply committed to the safety of our employees and our community members. We are dedicated to ensuring safe operations at our facility and using our strong commitment to sustainability to continually improve our impact on the environment.

Picture: The Atlas Point Guard House. Text: States North America's Community Engagement Team won the Purpose in action award

The Responsible award was received by North America’s Community Engagement team: who provided six students from a local high school with hands-on engineering experience in research laboratories at Bucknell University. The judges appreciated the team’s efforts in promoting STEM education in the community around Atlas Point – one of our largest sites – and presenting science as a pathway to improving lives.

Congratulations to the nominees for this award, and to the Community Engagement team for being noticed as the most responsible.

What's that sound? Croda Community Notification System Information

Croda’s Atlas Point facility has an audible community alarm, the Croda Community Notification System (CCNS), which is separate from our site-only alarms for employees. The CCNS is used to alert the community about situations occurring at our site, if ever needed. Working in cooperation with the New Castle County Office of Emergency Management, the CCNS would be used to notify neighbors of an emergency.

Croda Community Notification System (CCNS)

The installation of the Croda Community Notification System (CCNS) is complete. Sirens are located at:

Atlas Point
Eisenberg Elementary School
Police Athletic League (Garfield Park)
Rose Hill Community Center

The CCNS was installed to ensure our neighboring communities are alerted to any potential situations at our site that could impact public safety. The four sirens comprising our CCNS were simultaneously tested on February 8, 2022. All four sirens were successfully activated during the test.

Going forward, routine siren tests will be performed for one minute at 7:00 pm on the second Tuesday of every February, May, August, and November. Remaining dates for 2023 are as follows:

May 9, 2023 at 7:00 pm
August 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm
November 14, 2023 at 7:00 pm

This notice and the expansion of our alarm system is undertaken as part of the settlement of an enforcement action.

Giving back

We firmly believe in our social obligation to make a positive, lasting difference in the New Castle community. Atlas Point is always exploring new community engagement initiatives. In the past, we were able to support local schools and STEM groups, fire departments, groups helping with food insecurity, and the Route 9 Library and Innovation Center. Going forward, we are working to increase our involvement with many local programs. Additionally, our employees regularly come together to give back through local volunteerism. Click below to learn about some of our recent activities.

New Castle Senior Center Holiday Event
Croda Staff Speak at William Penn High School
Colonial School District Partnership Recognition
In recognition of our partnership with the Colonial School District, Croda Atlas Point was honored as a valued School District Business Partner at a 2022 school board meeting.

Brian Erskine, Supervisor in Schools for Colonial, touched on the various ways Croda offers STEM experiences for the district’s students. Highlights include:
- Providing (and underwriting) STEM programming for elementary summer camp students;
- Inviting advanced chemistry and environmental science students from William Penn High School to participate in a learning day at the Atlas Point facility;
- Providing summer scholarships that gave six William Penn High School students the opportunity to attend the week-long, residential, Bucknell University Summer Engineering Camp cost- and- tuition-free in 2022. (See photo.)
The students who attended Bucknell’s camp thanks to Croda’s scholarship program then presented to the Colonial School District’s board. They discussed how attending the program not only provided a deeper dive in engineering itself, but better prepared them for the college admissions process, helped them understand the residential experience of college, and illustrated the many careers that are possible with an engineering degree. For example, students who had been focused on mechanical engineering are now considering biomedical or environmental engineering as well.

With a focus on being part of the fabric of the New Castle community, Croda looks forward to continuing engagement with the Colonial School District. Croda Atlas Point is currently in conversations with William Penn High School about structuring a career development program.
Basketballs for McCullough Middle School
Food Pantry Restocks
"The Air We Share" Environmental Awareness Art Contest

Sustainability

Atlas Point’s sustainable practices support Croda’s 1.5°C science-based target and its wider sustainability Commitment to become Climate Positive. Atlas Point is also home to our ECO Range, which manufactures 100% bio-based surfactants, the first of their kind in the United States. We are continuously re-evaluating our processes to determine how we can become more sustainable. We have already implemented numerous changes, such as using onsite solar panels and combined heat and power units that are powered by landfill gas. These shifts have resulted in:

The site running on 100% renewable electricity
A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity and waste to landfill since 2018

To learn more about safety and sustainability at Atlas Point, watch the video below about the exciting initiatives in place around emissions control, renewable energy, bio-based raw materials, and community engagement at the facility.

Sustainable Manufacturing at Atlas Point

Sustainability

Sustainability spans every area of our business and is a crucial way we add value to our customers.

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Community communication

More information on what we are doing to help our local community

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our neighbors informed, our Community Information Line provides updates about general operations and routine tests at our site. Community members may also call this line to ask questions.

Police/Fire Call 911

Croda Atlas Point Community Information Line - 302-429-5474

The Delaware Emergency Notification System

Register on the DENS website here.

The Delaware Emergency Notification System (DENS) is the primary system for public warning and emergency protective action information in the State of Delaware. Municipalities, Counties, and State Agencies utilize the system to inform and warn the public during emergencies that adversely affect the health, safety, and welfare of Delaware citizens. The system allows local 911 centers or emergency managers to send messages to the specific street, neighborhood, or larger areas affected by the event. In the event a line is busy, the DENS system will retry 2 additional times to deliver the message. If an answering machine or voicemail is reached, the system will deliver the emergency message there.

Registering your phone enables DENS to geocode your phone number to your home (or work) address and can send messages to your cell phones and Voice over IP home phones. If an emergency message has a text or e-mail included, registering your phone information will allow you to receive the text or e-mail message.

DENS allows emergency voice messages to be delivered to a home or business within the traditional land line telephone network. If you have this type of phone, your address and phone number is already in the DENS database.

Atlas Point

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About Our Facility

What's that sound? Croda Community Notification System Information

Croda Community Notification System (CCNS)

Our sirens are located:

Croda Community Notification System Tone

Giving back

New Castle Senior Center Holiday Event

Croda Staff Speak at William Penn High School

Colonial School District Partnership Recognition

Basketballs for McCullough Middle School

Food Pantry Restocks

"The Air We Share" Environmental Awareness Art Contest

Sustainability

Sustainable Manufacturing at Atlas Point

Sustainability

Community communication

Police/Fire Call 911

Croda Atlas Point Community Information Line - 302-429-5474

CAC members represent the following organizations:

The Delaware Emergency Notification System

Register on the DENS website here.