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John Dickinson is to shed up to 45 of the 90 jobs at its stationery manufacturing business in Washington. 27-Dec-2005 New Jarrold Printing is considering plans to shed up to 30 of the 330 jobs at its Norwich-based printing business. 27-Dec-2005 Stanelco is to build a £3m biodegradable polymers production and research centre in Wales with the creation of 60 jobs, having received assistance from Blaenau Gwent Council. 20-Dec-2005 MonoSol is to set up a new extrusion line at its Aquafilm factory in Worcestershire, in response to rising demand for water-soluble laundry bags and packaging films. 20-Dec-2005 Polimoon is to shed up to 20 jobs at its plastic packaging factory in Beccles. 12-Dec-2005 Canyon Europe, the manufacturer of plastic trigger sprayers and dispensing pumps, is to create up to 40 new jobs in Mallusk, Antrim, as part of a £10m development project. 08-Dec-2005 Security Printing & Systems, the Oldham-based passport printing company with about 300 staff, has been put up for sale with a price tag of up to £150m, and NM Rothschild has been appointed to run the auction. 08-Dec-2005 Huhtamaki is to shed almost 90 of the 190 jobs at its plastic packaging factory in Portadown. 05-Dec-2005 Washington Envelopes is seeking permission from Sunderland Council for the £3m expansion of its envelopes factory in Washington, which would create 34 new jobs. 02-Dec-2005 SCA Packaging is planning to close its corrugated packaging plant in Darlington next September with the loss of up to 175 jobs, in order to concentrate production at sites in Hartlepool, Wigan and Ellesmere Port. 29-Nov-2005 British Polythene Industries is planning to create up to 40 new jobs at its factory in Heanor next year, and has just completed a £2.5m investment in new machinery. 29-Nov-2005 UK Steel Enterprise is supporting start-up company Alliance Integrated Solutions with the development of a CD packaging factory in Abertillery, which will create up to 50 jobs. 24-Nov-2005 Printing.com is to invest £3.2m in a new press for its main printing site in Manchester, and is also looking to expand its branch network from 147 to 300 over the next three years. 22-Nov-2005 Communisis, the printing company, is planning to set up a 100,000 sq ft site at the Estuary Business Park in Speke in 2007, but 40 jobs will initially be created at a temporary site in Bootle in January 2006. 17-Nov-2005 Jordison Print Services of Teesside has gone into liquidation with the loss of six jobs. 09-Nov-2005 Polestar is to shed 70 jobs over the next few months through the closure of its Milton Keynes headquarters and the reorganisation of its sales and customer services operations. 04-Nov-2005 Edward Thompson Group is planning to close its Sunderland Paper mill with the loss of up to 95 jobs. 04-Nov-2005 Adare Group is to close its Leeds-based Pillings commercial print and direct mail business this month, with the loss of up to 80 jobs. 04-Nov-2005 BBA is considering plans to sell or demerge its Fiberweb non-woven materials business, which could be valued at up to £700m. 02-Nov-2005 Communisis, the Leeds-based print management company, has been in talks with a number of private equity firms about a possible sale of all or part of the business. 28-Oct-2005 DS Smith is to close its packaging plant at the Rainton Bridge Industrial Estate on Wearside following a recent fire, with the loss of up to 20 jobs. 28-Oct-2005 Scorpio Print Finishing is to transfer about 20 staff at its recently-acquired Z-Card business from Runcorn to Leeds, but about 50 jobs are being lost. 21-Oct-2005 Timestrip has raised £2.4m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its patented smart label technology. 12-Oct-2005 McLaren Packaging is investing almost £2m at a new factory in Port Glasgow to make tubes for whisky bottles. 11-Oct-2005 Beatson Clark is to shed about 80 jobs at its glass packaging factories in Barnsley and Rotherham. 10-Oct-2005 Leading Edge is to set up a new £3m labels and packaging factory in Orton Southgate, Peterborough, with the creation of almost 30 jobs. 07-Oct-2005 East Riding Sack Company is creating 15 new jobs at its paper sacks factory in Stamford Bridge, following a £3.3m investment in new machinery. 07-Oct-2005 Kimberly Clark has won planning permission for a £20m expansion at its paper mill in Barrow, which should create 55 new jobs over the next few years. 06-Oct-2005 Imperial Tobacco is to close its Rizla rolling papers factory in Treforest, south Wales, over the next year, with the loss of 134 jobs. 30-Sep-2005 Gardners has announced a £2.9m expansion programme for its Cardiff-based printing business, with the initial purchase of six digital presses and the creation of up to 21 jobs. 29-Sep-2005 Communisis, the Leeds-based print company, has won an outsourcing contract from HSBC which will involve the transfer of 255 HSBC staff, and has also announced plans to build a new "centre of excellence" over the next 18 months. 23-Sep-2005 Sterling Print & Design is to relocate its printing business and up to 130 staff from Wellingborough to Kettering by the end of October, as part of a £4m investment. 23-Sep-2005 Superfos is to close its pharmaceutical packaging plant at Sevenoaks by the end of the year, with the loss of 14 jobs, in order to transfer production to Denmark. 23-Sep-2005 Cenplas has suffered a major fire at its plastic bottle warehouse on the Chartwell Trading Estate in Leicester, casting doubt on the future of 70 jobs. 20-Sep-2005 Valpak has been appointed by the British Retail Consortium to co-ordinate the creation of a network of recycling centres to meet new European rules on the safe disposal of electrical and electronic waste. 05-Sep-2005 Arjo Wiggins has confirmed plans to close its Corpach Paper Mill in Fort William at the end of the month, with the loss of up to 126 jobs. 02-Sep-2005 BemroseBooth is to shed 70 of the 550 jobs at its printing plant in Derby, due to falling demand for catalogue printing and binding. 01-Sep-2005 Printpack Europe is to shed up to 37 of the 250 jobs at its packaging and labelling materials factory in Bury, Lancashire. 31-Aug-2005 Svenska Cellulosa is planning to shed 3,600 jobs from its worldwide tissue and packaging business, which will affect some of the 7,000 staff at its 30 UK sites, including Edinburgh, London, Portsmouth, Northampton and Darlington. 29-Aug-2005 SMP Group, the printing company, is planning to consolidate its 120 staff at its Woolwich headquarters in London next year, which will mean vacating its operation in West Norwood. 26-Aug-2005 AB Graphic International, the label printing company, has awarded a £2m contract to George Houlton of Hull to build a new factory in Bridlington. 25-Aug-2005 Smith Anderson is to shed 70 of the 240 jobs at its Fettykil papermaking mill in Leslie, Fife. 24-Aug-2005 Kingsley Cards, the Skipton-based greetings card publisher with 212 staff, has secured a £13m equity investment from Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity. 19-Aug-2005 Styropack UK is to close its EPS packaging factory in County Durham in September, with the loss of up to 14 jobs. 19-Aug-2005 Anson Packaging has awarded a £2m contract to Deejak Builders to build a warehouse in Sutton, Cambridgeshire. 18-Aug-2005 Forscot has secured £0.7m to finance detailed research into proposals to build a £1.1bn wood processing plant in Easter Ross by 2008, including a pulp mill, paper mill and renewable energy generation plant. 09-Aug-2005 Tesco has shed 70 jobs at its Mount Farm print centre in Milton Keynes, in order to outsource the printing of in-store literature. 20-Jul-2005 DSTi Output, the transactional mail specialist, is planning to invest £20m in a new production site at an undisclosed location in the West Midlands by mid-2006, with the creation of 120 jobs. 18-Jul-2005 Roberts Mart is to open a new lamination department at its packaging plant in Leeds next month, as part of a £8.7m investment programme. 18-Jul-2005 Superior Creative Services is investing £2m in its creative, reprographics, photographic and printing operations in Melksham, with a new £0.3m building due to open by the end of next year. 18-Jul-2005 Huhtamaki, the Finnish packaging company, is to close its EPS moulding factory in Skelmersdale by the end of the year. 05-Jul-2005 Tullis Russell is to close its decorative paper factory in Stoke-on-Trent with the loss of 60 jobs, in order to transfer production to South Korea. 04-Jul-2005 Lazard has been appointed to organise the sale or flotation of Adare Printing Group, the owner of 175 Prontaprint and 160 Kall Kwik outlets with an estimated value of £150m. 04-Jul-2005 Budelpack is to shed 130 jobs at its plastics packaging factory in Rhymney, South Wales, following a recent fire. 22-Jun-2005 Northern Packaging Distributors has suffered a major fire at its packaging films factory in Newton Aycliffe. 16-Jun-2005 Arjo Wiggins is considering plans to close its Corpach Paper Mill in Fort William with the loss of 120 jobs. 15-Jun-2005 Polestar has confirmed plans to close its Purnell gravure printing plant in Somerset, and some of the staff will be transferred to other sites. 10-Jun-2005 Fascia Graphics is planning to create ten new jobs at its new printing site on the Bath Road Industrial Estate in Chippenham over the next 12 months. 24-May-2005 Countryside Art is seeking a new £0.5m site in East Lindsey for its fabric and paper giftware business and 22 staff. 17-May-2005 Bezier, the supplier of instore promotional material with 510 staff, is to be put up for sale by Electra Partners Europe with a valuation of up to £100m. 12-May-2005 British Polythene Industries is considering plans to close its plastic packaging factory in Ipswich with the loss of more than 60 jobs, as well as a refuse sacks plant in Redditch. 10-May-2005 Unwins Direct is to relocate its seed business to Alconbury, near Huntingdon, in July, and the closure of sites in Wisbech, Histon and Chester will affect up to 150 staff. 04-May-2005 Communisis is planning to expand the workforce at its recently-acquired Dataform print management business on Tyneside from 107 to 125. 26-Apr-2005 Williams Lea is seeking permission from South Norfolk Council to set up a new printing facility in Wymondham, which would create up to 260 jobs. 25-Apr-2005 KCS Trade Print is to relocate to a new 13,000 sq ft factory in north Cornwall in June, in order to house a new die-cutting machine. 22-Apr-2005 SCA Hygiene, the paper products manufacturer, has won permission from Tynedale Council to build a distribution warehouse at its site in Prudhoe, with the creation of 55 jobs. 22-Apr-2005 Finance Wales has provided financial support to a new company called The Box Specialists in the acquisition of Papermarc Merton's packaging factory in Aberbeeg, and the site has been reopened with 36 staff. 20-Apr-2005 Renham & Wade is seeking permission to expand its medical packaging factory near Barnard Castle, with the creation of 16 jobs. 18-Apr-2005 MY Cartons is planning to close its packaging factory in Leicester with the loss of 98 jobs. 11-Apr-2005 Wipak is investing £6m in the expansion of its printed film packaging factory in Welshpool, with the creation of 38 jobs. 08-Apr-2005 Simpsongroup, the design and print company, is to relocate to a new £7m headquarters and warehouse in Washington in October, and the new site will include a £2m litho-press system and 59 new jobs. 06-Apr-2005 Burall is to shed up to 35 jobs at its label printing and consumer packaging business in Wisbech. 05-Apr-2005 P&R Labpak, the St Helens-based supplier of laboratory equipment and chemical reagents, has received a £0.5m cash injection to secure the future of 33 staff. 24-Mar-2005 Allied Glass Containers, the packaging group valued at about £80m, is undergoing a strategic review by owner Close Brothers which could lead to the business being put up for sale. 07-Mar-2005 BPB Paperboard is planning to close its paper mill in Aberdeen in June with the loss of at least 250 jobs. 04-Mar-2005 Bunzl is planning to demerge its Filtrona cigarette filters business, in order to focus on outsourcing services. 01-Mar-2005 The Production Company is to relocate its printing business and 130 staff to a 50,000 sq ft site on Sheffield Parkway this spring, with the creation of 24 new jobs. 28-Feb-2005 Tullis Russell is to shed 48 of the 590 jobs at its paper mill in Glenrothes. 28-Feb-2005 Fascia Graphics is to relocate its Chippenham-based printing business and about 50 staff to a new 12,000 sq ft site on the Bath Road Industrial Estate over the next three months. 24-Feb-2005 St Ives is to close its printing plant in Caerphilly with the loss of 210 jobs, in order to transfer the work to four other sites. 22-Feb-2005 UPM, the Finnish paper company, is considering plans to streamline its UK sales operation, which could lead to the closure of an office in London. 18-Feb-2005 API, the packaging group, has received a preliminary takeover approach from an unnamed company. 18-Feb-2005 Innovia Films is planning to close its cellulose film plant in Bridgewater with the loss of 250 jobs, in order to transfer production to its two sites in Wigton. 09-Feb-2005 Brown & Son is to shed 26 of the 54 jobs at its Hampshire-based printing business. 07-Feb-2005 NCS is to expand its printing operations in Yorkshire, with the closure of its Leeds office and Bradford warehouse and the creation of a new 10,000 sq ft site in Halifax. 02-Feb-2005 Impress Metal Packaging is planning to shed up to 30 jobs at its factory in Norwich, in order to transfer some production to other factories. 25-Jan-2005 Alden Press is to shed 26 jobs at its printing plant in Oxford and relocate the remaining 150 staff to a new site in Witney. 20-Jan-2005 CJ Morton & Co is to set up a new subsidiary called MCM Services in Barnsley in April with the creation of 34 jobs, in order to pack cleaning utensils. 13-Jan-2005 James McNaughton has closed the former MoDo Merchants offices in Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Scotland and Warrington with the loss of 55 jobs. 07-Jan-2005 Papermarc Merton is said to have ceased trading with the loss of up to 90 jobs at its packaging factory in Blaenau Gwent. 07-Jan-2005 Greeting Card Group is creating 100 new jobs at its distribution centre in Peterborough this month. 05-Jan-2005 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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