Azon UK Ltd. is located in Ystrad Mynach near the South Wales town of Caerphilly. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Azon USA Inc. This office and manufacturing location serves customers in the United Kingdom and throughout the European Union with full blending production capabilities. Azon UK consists of eight employees for service, support and technical assistance.

Caerphilly: Home to an ancient Castle and a unique cheese

Caerphilly is a market town seven miles north of Cardiff, and has grown where the valleys converge, making it an important meeting place. It began as a Castle town, then added the function of an agricultural market town with weekly markets and an annual fair and then an industrial centre with a wide range of contrasting industries. It is famous for its Castle and its flat creamy cheese.

The cheese, created by a local farmer and made famous in the markets and fairs, is after an absence of over a hundred years, being made in the town to the original recipe and can be bought in the local shops. The town has a good selection of pubs, restaurants and coffee shops, with a cosmopolitan as well as local flavour. It is still an important trading area for the surrounding areas and has a good selection of shops.

The castle located on the site of a former Roman fort, was built by the English in an effort to control the warring Welsh. It stretches over a thirty-acre site at the heart of the town. It is the largest in Britain after Windsor, and the second largest in Europe of its design. Construction commenced in 1268 on the orders of Gilbert de Clare and acted as a powerful symbol of Anglo-Norman rule. Its formidable stone walls, and concentric water defenses provided protection from the Welsh. It also played an administrative role, replacing the local court commute, as the centre for administration and collection of revenue. It gradually fell into disuse in the fourteenth century. The role the castle played in the civil war is unclear, but it is reputed that its great defenses were damaged by gunpowder resulting in its famous leaning tower. Its restoration was commenced in the nineteenth century by the third Marquees of Bute, continued by his descendants and then the state. The castle is reputed to be haunted, its most famous ghost being that of the Green Lady, who was beheaded following an affair. There was no divorce in those days. She is said to appear only to those who are dying so she is not an apparition you would want to meet. The history of the Castle and its ghosts are celebrated each December by the festival of light, when people follow a lantern procession through town while effigies of the de Clares are burnt.