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The information below comes from the UK Activity Report.
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Polimoon Fibrenyle is planning to expand its plastic bottle packaging plant in Beccles, Suffolk, with the creation of 62 jobs. 30-Dec-2004 Bretton Communications Group has ceased trading with the loss of 49 jobs, following the £3m sale of its Frank Peters printing division. 28-Dec-2004 Huhtamaki is considering plans to close its rigid packaging plant in Leeds with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 27-Dec-2004 Regents Greeting Cards is looking to relocate up to 200 staff to a new site in Shipley, in order to convert its existing Dockfield Road site into housing. 27-Dec-2004 The Institute of Packaging is planning to merge with the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, in order to improve its financial security. 22-Dec-2004 Quebecor World is planning to shed about 300 jobs at its printing plant in Corby next spring, following the loss of its Daily Mail contract. 16-Dec-2004 Alcan has closed its aluminium rolling mill in Falkirk with the loss of up to 80 jobs, in order to transfer production to South Wales. 16-Dec-2004 MY Cartons is to close its carton printing plant at Hunslet in Leeds, with the loss of 107 of the 213 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site nearby. 14-Dec-2004 International Greetings is to close its printing unit in Hatfield with the loss of up to 50 jobs, in order to transfer production of greetings cards to Latvia. 09-Dec-2004 Ross & Cromarty Enterprise is backing proposals from Forscot to build a £1bn pulp mill, paper mill and sawmill at Delny on the Cromarty Firth, which could create up to 500 jobs. 08-Dec-2004 De La Rue, the security printer, is to close a factory in Portsmouth with the loss of about 150 jobs, while its US-based electronic voting business has been put up for sale. 06-Dec-2004 New Jarrold Printing is to seek permission to build a £40m printing centre on a 27-acre site at Wymondham by 2006, in order to relocate production from Norwich. 01-Dec-2004 Kruger Tissue is to shed 30 of the 200 jobs at its tissues plant at Penygroes near Caernarfon. 26-Nov-2004 Green Street Bindery is seeking a suitable site in Oxford for the relocation of its bookbinding business and 14 staff. 25-Nov-2004 Butler & Tanner is to close its printing plant in Burgess Hill with the loss of 22 jobs, in order to consolidate its digital print operations at its main site in Frome. 19-Nov-2004 TALL Group has acquired the customer base of George Waterston Security Printers, which has been liquidated by KPMG with the loss of 55 jobs. 19-Nov-2004 Aerobox is to raise £4.8m in a share placing to fund the development of airline cargo containers made from composite materials. 15-Nov-2004 Print Design & Graphics is to open its rebuilt packaging plant in Newcastle in January, and plans to recruit 40 new staff over the next three years. 12-Nov-2004 Rexam is to acquire the remaining 40% of Rexam Beverage Can Zhao Qing of China from its joint venture partner Hua Xing Investment. 11-Nov-2004 Burall is planning to shed 18 of the 300 jobs at its Wisbech-based printing and packaging business. 11-Nov-2004 Thomas Hardy Services is to close its bottling plant in Tiverton with the loss of 80 jobs. 11-Nov-2004 Universal Flexible Packaging is planning to double the size of its new 26,500 sq warehouse in Leicester by next August, with the creation of 15 jobs. 04-Nov-2004 Sinclair International, the supplier of labelling equipment for fruit, is cutting 14 of the 120 jobs at its site in Norwich. 03-Nov-2004 Leicester Paper Company (LPC) is to set up a £40m paper products factory and warehouse on a 35-acre site at Rothley near Leicester. 01-Nov-2004 British American Tobacco is planning to close its Murray Sons pipe tobacco factory in Belfast, with the loss of 63 jobs. 28-Oct-2004 Williams Lea has won a £225m document outsourcing contract from Norwich Union, which will involve the transfer of 500 staff. 20-Oct-2004 Polestar is to invest £10m in a new print finishing and mailing facility at Polestar Chantry in Wakefield. 08-Oct-2004 Rexam is to acquire the remaining 50% stake in Vitro-American National Can, the Mexican beverage can manufacturer, for £14m. 28-Sep-2004 Scapa Polymerics has opened a new facility in Ashton-under-Lyne to produce fire-retardant compounds and wrapping materials, as part of a £22m investment in cable products. 24-Sep-2004 Supreme Plastics Group has merged its Malpack and Brayford Plastics operations into a single business called Supreme Flexibles. 24-Sep-2004 Intertissue is to double the previously-announced 300-strong workforce at the £70m paper factory being built at the Baglan Energy Park in Neath Port Talbot, and the site will be in production by the end of next year. 16-Sep-2004 Betts UK is to shed 200 jobs at its factory in Colchester by next September, in order to transfer its plastics injection-moulding business to its US-based partner Nypro. 14-Sep-2004 Communisis is planning to close its labels factory in Gateshead with the loss of 144 jobs, unless a buyer can be found.. 09-Sep-2004 Cambridge University Press is planning to shed up to 30 jobs at its printing operation in Cambridge. 03-Sep-2004 Dove Construction has won a £4m contract to build an office block for Alcan Packaging in Warmley, near Bristol. 26-Aug-2004 Alcan is to invest £6m in its aluminium sheet rolling activities at its Rogerstone site in Newport, but its Falkirk site will close with the loss of 86 jobs. 23-Aug-2004 Diageo is to close coopering workshops in Renfrew and Leven over the next 12 months, with the loss of about 17 jobs. 13-Jul-2004 Linpac Filmco is to shed 73 of the 130 jobs at its cling film factory in Sedgefield. 13-Jul-2004 Nipson is to raise £15m in a flotation on Aim to fund the global expansion of its digital printing business. 05-Jul-2004 Excelprint, the Suffolk-based printing company, has ceased trading with the loss of 60 jobs. 25-Jun-2004 Seda of Italy is to set up a food packaging factory at Hawtin Park near Blackwood, Caerphilly, with the creation of 190 jobs. 22-Jun-2004 New Jarrold Printing is considering two potential locations near Norwich to set up a new £20m printworks, and hopes to start work on the site in the autumn. 16-Jun-2004 SCA Packaging is to shed up to 45 of the 200 jobs at its corrugated packaging factory in Darlington. 15-Jun-2004 Synbra Polymers is to close its polymers plant in Congleton in July, in order to transfer production to AKG Polymers in the Netherlands. 11-Jun-2004 RPC, the plastic packaging supplier, is planning to double production of inhalers next year, in order to meet rising demand from Boehringer of the US. 09-Jun-2004 Arjo Wiggins is to shed 55 jobs at its Stoneywood paper factory near Aberdeen. 08-Jun-2004 UPM-Kymmene has acquired 62 acres of land next to its Shotton Paper Mill on the Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire, and the site could be used to expand newsprint production. 27-May-2004 Polestar has selected Sheffield as the preferred location to build a £110m 700,000 sq ft printing plant, in order to produce colour magazines, catalogues and newspaper supplements. 20-May-2004 Thorndick & Dawson is to close its Norwich-based printing business with the loss of 18 jobs. 18-May-2004 Intelicoat Technologies is to close its coated paper factory in Runcorn in August, with the loss of up to 48 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its Wrexham site. 14-May-2004 Bezier is considering plans to relocate its Wakefield-based display printing business and up to 293 staff to a larger site. 11-May-2004 Unterland Flexible Packaging of Austria has acquired a 75% stake in Norvic Associates, the Norwich-based distributor of agricultural stretch film. 07-May-2004 Nicholl Food Packaging is to shed 90 jobs at its foil container factory in Chesham next year, in order to relocate production to the Midlands. 30-Apr-2004 Curtis Fine Papers is planning to close the Dalmore mill near Edinburgh with the loss of up to 127 jobs, in order to consolidate production at its larger site near St Andrews. 27-Apr-2004 Clifton Packaging is relocating its four Leicester factories and 72 staff to a new £4m site on Braunstone's Meridian Business Park, and the move will be completed by the end of June. 27-Apr-2004 Norwich Union is considering plans to outsource its document and printing services to Williams Lea, with the transfer of about 111 jobs in Perth. 22-Apr-2004 Taylor Bloxham, the printing company, is to create 25 jobs over the next 12 months at its new call centre and distribution business at the Meridian Business Park in Leicestershire. 20-Apr-2004 Tyne & Wear Pallets is to invest £2m in the expansion of its pallets factory in Gateshead, and the workforce will rise from 45 to 60 over the next three years. 19-Apr-2004 TripleArc has won a £10m five-year print management contract from BAA, and last month it won a £4.5m contract from BMI Healthcare. 14-Apr-2004 Thomson Litho is to shed 50 of the 400 jobs at its printing business in East Kilbride. 14-Apr-2004 Polestar is to shed 91 jobs at its printing business in East Kilbride, and the plant is expected to close in the future with the loss of the remaining 117 jobs. 14-Apr-2004 Abitibi Consolidated is to shed 56 jobs at its Bridgewater Mill recycled newsprint plant by the end of June. 14-Apr-2004 Britton Precision is to close its polyethylene film packaging factory in Louth in May, with the loss of 90 jobs. 05-Apr-2004 Phoenix Print Finishing is seeking larger premises in Nottingham for its 33 staff. 01-Apr-2004 The Print Factory is to create up to 100 jobs at a new £2m digital direct mail site due to open opposite its main factory in Northampton next month. 31-Mar-2004 Reed Print Group is to close sites in Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland and transfer 225 staff to a new £25m headquarters in Washington next year. 29-Mar-2004 Offset Colour Print of Southampton is to close due to bad debts, with the loss of up to 32 jobs. 26-Mar-2004 S&C Labels has secured a £0.25m investment from the Yorkshire & Humber Regional Venture Capital Fund to help fund the development of an innovative method of attaching transparent labels to bottles. 19-Mar-2004 Omni-Pac is to close its egg carton factory in Yarmouth with the loss of almost 200 jobs, due to problems cleaning up asbestos at the site. 17-Mar-2004 Documedia Solutions has closed its Solihull operation and transferred most of the work to its Bury St Edmunds site. 16-Mar-2004 RPC is to acquire four plastic packaging factories in Hereford, France, Belgium and the Czech Republic from Rexam for £16m. 15-Mar-2004 Polestar is to close its Polestar Anglia magazine printing business in Diss, Norfolk, and 18 of the 56 staff are expected to relocate to Colchester. 12-Mar-2004 Bridgewater Paper is to shed 60 jobs at its recycled newsprint mill in Cheshire, in order to improve efficiency. 12-Mar-2004 Emery Colours, the Burslem-based ceramic printer, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 80 jobs. 09-Mar-2004 Maxiprint is planning to expand the workforce at its York-based printing business from 45 to 60 this year. 09-Mar-2004 TPL Printers of Kidderminster is to close with the loss of up to 200 jobs, and the four web presses are expected to transfer to Australia. 05-Mar-2004 Orchard & Ind, the Gloucester-based printing, is to go into voluntary liquidation with the loss of the remaining 16 jobs. 02-Mar-2004 Williams Lea, the print management company, has secured a £20m capital investment from 3i. 01-Mar-2004 M&H Plastics is to shed 46 of the 535 jobs at its plastic bottles and caps factory in Beccles. 01-Mar-2004 Graphic Inline is to shed an unspecified number of the 135 staff at its Leicester printing business, following its recent £1.5m investment in new equipment. 01-Mar-2004 Anglo American has launched a takeover bid for Portucel, the Portuguese state-owned pulp and paper company, in an attempt to expand its Mondi division. 27-Feb-2004 Reed Print Group is looking to sell Reed Packaging, the Gateshead-based carton manufacturer with more than 70 staff. 27-Feb-2004 St Ives is to close its multimedia printing site in Tunbridge Wells with the loss of 40 jobs, and the work will transfer to its Crayford office. 24-Feb-2004 Caledonian Ferguson Timpson has secured a £0.5m Scottish Executive grant to develop a starch-based alternative to foam packaging. 17-Feb-2004 JR Crompton, the manufacturer of paper for teabags, has acquired the Devon Valley paper mill near Exeter from MeadWestvaco, and has also announced a £85m refinancing package. 16-Feb-2004 Lyreco, the Telford-based stationery distributor, is investing £10m in the expansion off its headquarters and distribution centre, with the creation of 300 jobs. 10-Feb-2004 WE Berry, the Bradford-based web printer, is to be closed with the loss of 44 jobs, after KPMG Corporate Recovery failed to find a buyer. 06-Feb-2004 Victor Stationery is to shed 150 jobs at its paper notebooks factory in Belfast, in order to transfer production to Estonia. 02-Feb-2004 Polestar is to close its printing plant in Watford by the end of June, with the loss of up to 350 jobs, and some of the equipment will transfer to its site in Leeds. 30-Jan-2004 Baker Tilly's Manchester office has received two expressions of interest in Galloways Packaging, the Poynton-based food packaging company with 24 staff that is currently in administration. 27-Jan-2004 MY Cartons is investing £10m at its Cockburn Fields carton manufacturing site in Leeds, in order to improve efficiency and cut costs. 27-Jan-2004 Goodhead Group is to shed up to 70 of the 340 jobs at its BGP printing plant in Bicester in April, as part of a modernisation plan to remove inefficient capacity and invest in new equipment. 23-Jan-2004 Reed Print & Design is to shed many of the 75 jobs at its Wearside factory following a recent fire. 19-Jan-2004 Polimoon Fibrenyle is to close its plastic packaging factory in Norwich in August with the loss of 91 jobs, although 34 staff may relocate to sites in Nottinghamshire. 15-Jan-2004 Stanelco is to raise £1.5m in a rights issue to fund the development of radio frequency technology for use in sealing capsules of domestic products. 15-Jan-2004 Linpac Mouldings is to close its injection mouldings plant in Witton, Birmingham, in March, with the loss of 180 jobs. 14-Jan-2004 Pira International is planning to relocate its printing and packaging research business to a new site by spring 2005, having found a potential buyer for its current site in Leatherhead. 13-Jan-2004 Boxes Group is to close its Boxes Edson carton plant in Watford with the loss of 89 jobs, in order to transfer production to sites in Great Harwood and Northampton. 13-Jan-2004 Leach Colour is planning to relocate its printing business and 70 staff from Brighouse to the Bradley Business Park in Huddersfield. 12-Jan-2004 West Bromwich Pallets is to relocate its Sandwell recycling plant to a larger £4.5m site in Kelvin Way later this year, with the creation of about 50 jobs. 12-Jan-2004 Celloglas is planning to invest £3.3m in the expansion of its print finishing business this year. 09-Jan-2004 Printbylaser is planning to expand the 24-strong workforce at its Washington-based printing business with 12 additional staff this year. 09-Jan-2004 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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