27 November 2019

Tournaire and Sophim, a long-term partnership

 

Testimony of Jacques Margnat, Chief Executive Officer of Sophim 

 

How would you describe the relationship between Sophim and Tournaire? 

It’s a relationship that spans more than 20 years, every time we’ve had a development period there’s been new Tournaire equipment, such as distillation columns, stripping columns, molecular distillations, and every time we’ve had a lot of satisfaction and that’s why we’re here today, to receive this new fractionation column. 

 

What is your opinion about the quality of  Tournaire equipement?

Look, twenty years later the equipment is still running so it’s all happiness as I said.  It works well, the quality is good, there is no problem, it’s very good material, very well designed. 

 

What are your specific needs?

Of course, we need something specific because we are more or less the only ones manufacturing this product, at least in France, so we need something tailor-made. With the Tournaire engineers we have always found excellent common ground with both the old team and the new ones who have arrived, things are going very well between Sophim and your teams. 

On this particular project, we came up with ideas and indeed, we had to confront an engineering reality and we found a receptiveness and a collaborative approach that is excellent. Now we just have to try it now to see if everything works as planned. 

 

Do you have any upcoming project with Tournaire?

It is engraved in the past every time we bought equipment, we had a second one made because we made new developments, in the same way that we made two molecular distillations, I hope we will make a second column soon. 

 

Jacques Margnat, Chief Executive Officer of Sophim