History

Sénalia inaugurated its new head office "le 109", on May 12, 2022. Sénalia also celebrated the 65 years of activity of the group and the 20 years of Sénalia.

Activities : Warehousing, storage, 14,000 m² warehouse in Grand Quevilly (ZI du Grand Launay), including 6,000 m² dedicated to our partner Cargill.

The transfer of the head office from Chartres to Rouen Presqu'ile Elie was approved by the Board of Directors in May 2019. In August 2020, work begins on the construction of the new head office in Rouen, the "109".

Sénalia has made a significant logistical investment at its Grand-Couronne site: the installation of new ship loaders. They were put into service in February 2019. They allow the loading of Panamax type boats within the limit of the depth authorized by the channel. The ship loaders load 3000T / h without emanating dust and without the boats having to carry out any hauling operation.

Sénalia signs a partnership with the SCAEL group through its subsidiary Lecureur SA with the aim of structuring and consolidating the Rouen export sector. The silos at Bonnières sur Seine, upstream, and Val de la Haye, on the right bank downstream of the Seine, are operated by SENALIA. The same year, SENALIA bought the participation of the cooperative union Invivo in the company Magestiv, a freight forwarder specializing in rail transport, with more than 450 wagons owned. The ambition: to provide the French cereal sector with massive and regular transport tools. The economic model, with zero margin, is based on a total redistribution of the value created.

Drawing on his experience with the Barry Callebaut group in Grand Couronne, Sénalia was entrusted by the CARGILL group with an important part of the supply of cocoa beans to its plant in Grand Quevilly. This new Cocoa activity will be operated from Hangar H126 on the Elie peninsula.

The Tereos group entrusts Sénalia with the supply of the BENP plant located in Lillebonne. Sénalia is building a new silo intended to receive wheat but also certain products from the plant, including grains and gluten.

SPR and UCACEL merge into a single structure called Sénalia, owned by 59 members, mostly agricultural cooperatives.

UCACEL and Saint-Louis Sucre are joining forces to build a large terminal for the export of sugar, ROBUST on the Elie peninsula.

From 1992, UCACEL began to diversify its activity in order to limit its dependence on the cereals market alone and its contingencies. Thus UCACEL built in 1992 in Grand Couronne a warehouse intended for intervention which was subsequently reassigned to a cocoa bean handling activity on behalf of the Barry Callebaut group (1998) and in 1993, a silo to ensure handling of rapeseed for the Saipol crushing plant.

UCACEL took control of the Rouen Maritime Stores (MRM) which operated a grain terminal in Grand-Couronne. The following year, it built an additional silo behind this terminal, supplemented by new storage capacities in 1984 and 1986 (70,000 tonnes).

EAt the same time, the SPR (SICA des Silos Portuaires de Rouen) was created in 1958, bringing together the consular chambers and 9 cooperatives of the Normandy region. In 1961, the two structures built on the Elie peninsula, the first two silos in a long series, since the site was subsequently extended in 1967, 1976, 1985 and 1990 bringing storage to 250,000. t current.

In 1957, France was still a net importer of wheat. Yet Eure-et-Loir had a surplus of wheat production. Representatives of 20 local cooperatives decide to organize themselves to export. They created UCACEL (Union des Coopératives Agricoles de Céréales d´Eure-et-Loir) and built a silo in Rouen because of its strategic position, on the Seine, with maritime access and surrounded by a rich agricultural hinterland.