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British Polythene Industries is to relocate a packaging materials manufacturing operation from Witney to Heanor in Derbyshire, where 30 new jobs will be created. 23-Dec-2003 Purico of Nottingham is to build a £23m paper mill in China to manufacture cigarette filters, in partnership with Minfeng. 19-Dec-2003 Iggesund has announced plans to invest £12m in the expansion of its paperboard factory in Workington, securing the future of 470 jobs. 12-Dec-2003 Polestar is planning to build a new gravure printing facility, as part of a £100m investment programme, and sites are being considered in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Stoke and mainland Europe. 12-Dec-2003 A&R Carton of Sweden has placed its Chesterfield-based food packaging business in administration, which will affect up to 100 jobs. 02-Dec-2003 De La Rue, the security printer, is planning to transfer its Byfleet operations to Dunstable and seek a buyer for its Peterborough plant, which employs 145. 26-Nov-2003 Midven is to provide venture capital support to a new stationery wholesaling business being set up in Tamworth under the name of The Stationery Channel, and 20 jobs will be created by the end of next year. 24-Nov-2003 The East Midlands Development Agency is assisting Maul-Belser, the Bertelsmann subsidiary, with proposals to build a new printing plant near Derby, at a cost of up to £100m. 11-Nov-2003 Nicholl Food Packaging is to set up a new £5m distribution centre in Cannock next autumn, with the relocation of up to 100 staff from its existing site in Aldridge. 06-Nov-2003 Straight, the supplier of recycling containers to local authorities, is planning to raise £1.5m in a flotation on Aim. 03-Nov-2003 McCorquodale is to close its printing office in Wolverton and relocate to a new site elsewhere in Milton Keynes over the next two years, which will affect 115 staff. 28-Oct-2003 St Ives is planning to invest more then £30m on equipment for its printing operations over the next 12 months. 21-Oct-2003 Ball Packaging Europe is to close its drinks can factory in Runcorn with the loss of 90 jobs, and production will transfer to its site in Wrexham. 17-Oct-2003 Fentons, the Leeds-based printing company, has gone into liquidation. 14-Oct-2003 Beshara Press, the Tewkesbury-based commercial printing company, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 35 jobs. 10-Oct-2003 MAN Roland GB, the manufacturer of printing systems, is to relocate its Dover House headquarters in Mitcham to a new site across the road. 07-Oct-2003 Roberts Mart, the flexible packaging and printing company, is to relocate its headquarters to a new 80,000 sq ft site in Leeds by June 2004. 07-Oct-2003 Box Design & Contract Packing is planning to expand its display stands factory in Lincoln from 49,000 sq ft to 107,000 sq ft, with the creation of 150 jobs. 03-Oct-2003 Frank Peters is considering plans to relocate its printing business from Cumbria to Dewsbury, with the loss of up to 58 jobs. 29-Sep-2003 Autobar, the pan-European packaging supplier with more than 7,000 staff, has been put for sale by the Kuwait Investment Office, and Deutsche Bank will draw up a list of potential buyers. 29-Sep-2003 Polestar is to recruit up to 100 apprentices over the next three years, with 38 starting immediately across its five UK sites. 23-Sep-2003 Henry Cooke, the Cumbria-based paper packaging company with 180 staff, is expected to be acquired by Billerud of Sweden for £17m. 23-Sep-2003 International Paper is to shed up to 40 of the 470 jobs at its paper mill in Inverurie by September 2004. 22-Sep-2003 Scorpio Print Finishing, the Pudsey-based printing company with 200 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms. 19-Sep-2003 BPB is planning to close its paper mill at Purfleet in Essex by the end of the year, with the loss of up to 140 jobs. 19-Sep-2003 William Clowes is to shed 12 jobs in preparation for the relocation of its printing business to a new site in Beccles. 17-Sep-2003 Print Design & Graphics is investing £1.5m at its packaging factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which currently employs 151 staff. 12-Sep-2003 Bemis has announced a £10m investment at its shrink wrapping plant in Swansea, with the creation of 40 jobs. 11-Sep-2003 Klippan is to close its Caldwells paper mill in Fife with the loss of 160 jobs, and the machinery will be returned to previous operator Inveresk. 05-Sep-2003 Edward Thompson is to shed 30 jobs at its paper finishing operation in Sunderland, and a further 13 staff will be transferred to other departments. 05-Sep-2003 British Vita is looking to spend up to £40m on acquisitions to expand its foam and plastics business. 02-Sep-2003 Quinn Glass has confirmed plans to set up a £120m glass packaging and distribution plant at Ellesmere Port by 2005, with the creation of 370 jobs. 28-Aug-2003 Impress Metal Packaging is to shed 89 of the 403 jobs at its paint tin factory in Norwich. 25-Aug-2003 Alcan is to complete the £28m expansion of its aluminium smelter in Lynemouth, Northumberland, by the end of the year. 22-Aug-2003 Forest Enterprise Scotland has confirmed plans to establish its headquarters in Inverness, with the relocation of some jobs from Dumfries. 20-Aug-2003 Lavenham Press has won permission to relocate its printing business to a new factory at Melford Road in Lavenham. 15-Aug-2003 Excel Industries, the Ebbw Vale-based paper recycling company with 50 staff, is to relocate to a larger site in Rhymney, having won a £0.6m National Assembly grant. 14-Aug-2003 Chronos Richardson is planning to shed an unspecified number of the 125 jobs at its packaging solutions business in Nottingham. 11-Aug-2003 Creative Print & Design is creating 18 new jobs through a £1.3m expansion of its book printing business in Ebbw Vale. 17-Jul-2003 Parkside International is to close its flexible packaging plant in Stoke on Trent, in order to focus production at its Normanton and Darton sites. 15-Jul-2003 Polestar is to invest £16m in the expansion of its Petty printing plant in Leeds over the next three years. 11-Jul-2003 Greif is to close its recently-acquired T&D Packaging steel drums business in Bradford with the loss of 125 jobs, in order to focus production on its sites in Hull, Ellesmere Port and Burton-on-Trent. 09-Jul-2003 Xeikon International, the supplier of digital printing equipment, is to set up a new direct sales company with 15 staff in the York area. 04-Jul-2003 RPC Cresstale is to shed up to 80 of the 360 jobs at its cosmetic packaging factory in Thornaby. 30-Jun-2003 Pindar is investing £5m in the expansion of its printing operation in Scarborough, taking a new building opposite the existing site. 27-Jun-2003 Scott Timber Group and Associated British Ports are to invest £1m in a new timber pallet production plant at the Port of Barry. 26-Jun-2003 Printhaus is to shed 50 jobs at its Northampton-based printing business. 24-Jun-2003 Simpsongroup is investing £7m in the expansion of its design and print business, including new purpose-built premises in Washington, with the creation of 60 jobs over the next two years. 17-Jun-2003 Durham County Council is to extend its kerbside recycling scheme to cover 100,000 households by August, with the creation of 30 new jobs. 12-Jun-2003 Doyen Medipharm is to relocate its Wymondham-based medical packaging equipment factory and 40 staff to a larger site at the Gateway 11 Business Park this month. 12-Jun-2003 Sharp Interpack is investing £10m in a plastic packaging plant at Bridgwater, while its Aylesham plant near Canterbury will also be redeveloped next year. 10-Jun-2003 Delyn Packaging is planning to double the 10-strong workforce at its plastic packaging factory in Caerphilly over the next few months. 10-Jun-2003 Graphite Capital has acquired an undisclosed stake in Leading Edge Labels, the printing and packaging company. 10-Jun-2003 Duffin Corrugated is to close its corrugated packaging business in West Thurrock, Essex, with the loss of 87 jobs. 06-Jun-2003 British Vita has acquired the production assets and customer base of Crown General's polyolefin sheet extrusion division in Belgium for undisclosed terms, and one of the extrusion lines will be relocated to the UK. 06-Jun-2003 Bath Press is to be renamed CPI Bath by its French parent CPI Group, and there are also plans to merge the business with Midsomer Norton-based Bookcraft with the loss of 60 jobs at Bookcraft. 06-Jun-2003 The Institute of Paper is to merge with the Institute of Publishing to form the Institute of Paper & Publishing International. 04-Jun-2003 Alcan Packaging is considering plans to sell its Fibrenyle plastic container business, which includes production units in Beccles, Norwich, Thetford and Sutton-in-Ashfield. 04-Jun-2003 Cromwell Press is seeking permission to extend its book printing plant in Trowbridge with the creation of 45 jobs. 03-Jun-2003 SIG Combibloc is planning to expand its drinks carton manufacturing plant on Wearside, with the creation of 100 new jobs over the next three years. 28-May-2003 Arjo Wiggins is planning to shed 58 jobs at its Corpach paper mill in Lochaber by September, leaving a workforce of about 90. 21-May-2003 Stephens & George Print Group is to invest £12m in a new printing plant at its site in Merthyr Tydfil, with the creation of about 100 jobs. 20-May-2003 Image Factory is to relocate its printing business from Corsham to larger premises in Chippenham, with the creation of 50 jobs, as part of a £3m investment by parent company Quarto. 19-May-2003 DocQwise, the York-based document services company, has acquired a branch of The Color Company in Leicester, as part of a strategy to set up a nationwide network. 15-May-2003 Swantex, the manufacturer of Christmas crackers, is to transfer some production to China with the loss of about 200 homeworkers in the south Wales Valleys. 14-May-2003 Tetra Pak is to shed up to 50 of the 310 jobs at its packaging factory in Wrexham. 14-May-2003 Alito Color Group is to relocate its Islington and Romford sites to a new £4m plant in Leytonstone later this year, and is also acquiring new equipment to expand its direct mail business. 09-May-2003 Double-S Labels of Bradford has gone into liquidation with the loss of 30 jobs. 29-Apr-2003 Remploy Hartlepool is setting up a contract packaging area for the food industry at its site on the Hartlepool Trading Estate, with 15 of its 90-strong workforce transferring to the new operation. 28-Apr-2003 Polestar is to close the former Aberdeen University Press business in Altens with the loss of 30 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Exeter. 28-Apr-2003 Hammond Bindery is to consolidate three divisions of The Charlesworth Group onto an enlarged site in Wakefield, with Hammonds Packaging and Mannanco Plastics being relocated from Leeds and Batley. 23-Apr-2003 Bowne is to shed an unspecified number of the 95 jobs at its financial printing business in London. 23-Apr-2003 GEI is to shed 15 jobs at its Autowrappers food packaging machinery factory in Norwich. 22-Apr-2003 Linpac, the packaging company, has been put up for sale with an estimated value of £1bn. 22-Apr-2003 Stanton Grove has won a contract to manage a new £1m pulp and paper terminal at Associated British Ports’ port of Immingham. 17-Apr-2003 Iggesund Paperboard has secured a £0.2m government grant to switch timber freight traffic from road to coastal shipping between its forest site at Loch Fyne and its Cumbrian headquarters. 09-Apr-2003 Warwick Printing has announced a £1m relocation from Warwick to a larger site at the Sydenham Industrial Estate in Leamington. 09-Apr-2003 Expocentric has acquired six London branches from printing group The Color Co, and the sites will be rebranded as Expocentric Communication Centres. 04-Apr-2003 The Welsh Development Agency is to provide support to Intertissue in the development of a paper tissue-making plant at Baglan Bay near Swansea over the next two years, with the creation of 300 jobs. 03-Apr-2003 Thumbs Up, the packaging manufacturer, has awarded a £4m contract to Dew Pitchmastic to build a warehouse and office in Bury, Manchester. 27-Mar-2003 SCA Hygiene is planning to create up to 200 new jobs at its paper mill near Flint over the next 18 months, as part of a multi-million expansion of tissue manufacture. 24-Mar-2003 The London College of Printing is to change its name to the London College of Communication & Printing in the autumn, following a £25m refurbishment. 21-Mar-2003 Polestar is recruiting 50 additional staff at its magazine printing operation in Colchester, following a recent £3.4m investment programme. 18-Mar-2003 CCL Industries is planning to relocate its aerosol production from Grimsby to another factory in North Lincolnshire, which could threaten up to 200 jobs. 17-Mar-2003 The East Midlands Development Agency is said to be in discussions with an unnamed German printing company about plans to set up a catalogue printing, packaging and distribution site in Derby. 04-Mar-2003 Robert Horne is to close a number of branches with the loss of some jobs, in order to improve the efficiency of its printing and paper operations. 25-Feb-2003 Polestar Broadley is to shed 30 of the 100 jobs at its packaging plant in Accrington. 25-Feb-2003 The Welsh Development Agency is supporting plans from US-owned Moulded Paper International to invest £0.6m in a new facility to produce packaging from moulded pulp at Blackwood in South Wales, with the creation of 32 jobs. 24-Feb-2003 Candover Investments is looking to sell Clondalkin, the Irish printing and packaging group with about 4,000 staff, for about £470m. 21-Feb-2003 Graham & Heslip has closed its printing facilities in Co Clare and Londonderry with the loss of more than 40 jobs, in order to focus on its main site in Belfast. 14-Feb-2003 Smith Anderson is linking up with the Liquid Food Carton Manufacturers Association for a £0.5m investment in equipment for the UK's first carton recycling plant in Fife. 07-Feb-2003 Forest Enterprise Scotland is looking to set up a new head office, and is considering sites in Edinburgh, Dumfries, Inverness, Stirling and Perth. 06-Feb-2003 Technotrans Graphics is to close part of its printing operation in Colchester with the loss of 39 jobs, in order to transfer work to its headquarters in Germany. 05-Feb-2003 GT Cheshire & Sons is considering plans to shed up to half the 70 jobs at its Kidderminster-based printing business. 31-Jan-2003 John Mackle is to invest £2m in the expansion of its pet food factory in Moy, including the introduction of new equipment to produce innovative types of packaging. 23-Jan-2003 Graphic West Machinery, the Aylesbury-based supplier of used printing presses, has ceased trading with the loss of the remaining eight jobs. 21-Jan-2003 Kite Packaging is planning to expand its UK distribution network this year with the creation of 30 jobs. 14-Jan-2003 Beacon Industries, the packaging supplier based at the Beacon Centre for the Blind in Sedgley, has closed with the loss of 45 jobs. 13-Jan-2003 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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