PQ Corporation Works, Warrington
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Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 30 May 2019
Although now a part of the global PQ Corporation, the soap and chemical works at Bank Quay on Liverpool Road still proudly displays the Joseph Crosfield and Sons Ltd name on its front offices. Joseph Crosfield, a native of Warrington, first established a soap making business here in 1814 and the company continued to thrive after his death in 1844. It later became part of Lever Brothers and from 1929 Crosfield was a subsidiary of Unilever. When Ineos purchased the company in 2001 the Crosfield name was lost; Ineos later merged with PQ Corporation.