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Thomas Desjonquères joins the Sénalia group as industrial logistics director, replacing Thomas Graffin who left to join the world of hydrogen. “Recently graduated in 1998, I joined the OCG Cacao group to participate in the creation of its first production site, located in Grand-Quevilly. The objective of this ambitious French SME was to quickly become a key group in the chocolate market for manufacturers – BtoB – by facing major players in the sector such as Barry Callebaut or Cémoi. Project engineer at the start of this industrial unit, I assumed different operational functions: manager of a production team, maintenance manager and finally technical manager. The integration of OCG Cacao into the Cargill group in 2003 and the development of the activity in Europe gave me the opportunity to take on a position as project manager for the group's Chocolate Business Unit – Belgium, England, Germany , The Netherlands. In 2013, new challenges as sales manager within the French subsidiary of the German group Zeppelin Systems GmbH, for the Greater West region. Created in 1908 by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid airships, Zeppelin Systems today offers innovative and recognized installations in the food, plastic and rubber industrial sectors for handling powdery and liquid raw materials. Today I am very happy to join Sénalia, a recognized and respected player in agrologistics. I will endeavor to use my experience and my industrial skills to participate in the development of the group,” declares Thomas Desjonquères, industrial logistics director of the Sénalia group. The Sénalia group specializes in the provision of logistics services with historical know-how in the maritime export of cereals and agro-industry. The group develops personalized logistics solutions, piecemeal or end-to-end, allowing each sector whose flows pass through Normandy to find a suitable logistics solution (storage, packaging, loading). Each year, multimodal hubs capture more than 6 Mt (including 59% for the cereal export activity). This performance in logistics, preservation of the quality and technological properties of the products processed (€2.8 billion) makes Sénalia a major logistics partner.