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Borcombe SP is expected to go into liquidation with the loss of 160 jobs at its Romsey-based printing business. 24-Dec-2008 CCL Label is to invest £3m in the installation of new equipment at its printing plant in Castleford, and its Kings Lynn facility will be rebuilt. 11-Dec-2008 Colour Works has ceased trading with the loss of 17 jobs at its printing business in Totnes. 11-Dec-2008 Novelis Europe is considering plans to shed some of the 450 jobs at its aluminium roll products factory at Rogerstone in South Wales. 04-Dec-2008 Katz Quarmby Group is to close its factory in Brighouse with the loss of up to 12 jobs, in order to transfer beer mat production to Germany early next year. 02-Dec-2008 British Polythene Industries is to close its heavy-duty sacks and industrial films factory in Stockton-on-Tees, with the loss of 165 jobs, but up to 40 jobs will be created at sites in Ardeer and Greenock during 2009. 26-Nov-2008 Arjo Wiggins is considering plans to close its paper mill in Dartford, Kent, next April, with the loss of 127 jobs. 24-Nov-2008 Benchmark Promotional Services of Glasgow and Mailway Packaging Solutions of Yorkshire have formed a joint venture to provide contract packing services and create 40 new jobs. 21-Nov-2008 UPM Raflatac is to shed up to 75 of the 260 jobs at its packaging products factory in Scarborough. 14-Nov-2008 Spectra is looking to relocate its Halesworth-based plastic containers business to a new factory and warehouse on a 17-acre site on Sparrowhawk Road, with the workforce rising from 35 to 60 within a year. 13-Nov-2008 GlaxoSmithKline is planning to invest £50m in the development of a drinks bottling plant at its Coleford site in Gloucestershire by 2011, with the creation of 20 jobs. 07-Nov-2008 Impress is to shed about 38 of the 258 jobs at its paint cans factory in Norwich. 06-Nov-2008 Lick Group is planning to relocate its direct marketing and printing business to a 40,000 sq ft unit in Leeds early next year. 04-Nov-2008 Diamond Envelopes is considering plans to close its factory in Aberdeen, with the loss of up to 50 jobs. 03-Nov-2008 Domino Printing Sciences is shedding 70 jobs in its UK inkjet and laser printing business, and 200 jobs will be lost worldwide. 31-Oct-2008 Cambridge University Press is to shed up to 80 of the 200 jobs at its printing division in Cambridge early next year. 31-Oct-2008 International Paper is considering plans to close its paper mill at Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, with the possible loss of up to 371 jobs. 22-Oct-2008 Norbev is considering plans to shed up to 30 jobs at its soft drinks packaging factory in Ballymena. 17-Oct-2008 Whatman is to shed 60 jobs at its Springfield filter paper mill in Maidstone, reducing the site's workforce to 140. 09-Oct-2008 Prowell of Germany is to set up a cardboard distribution centre in Ellesmere Port, with the creation of about 50 jobs. 08-Oct-2008 Alcan Packaging is to shed 40 of the 450 jobs at its factory in Workington early next year. 03-Oct-2008 Heidelberg is to close its printing operation in Leeds early next year, with the loss of 20 jobs, in order to consolidate the work in Tamworth and Brentford. 29-Sep-2008 Harmsworth Printing is to close its newspaper printing plant in Grimsby, with the possible loss of up to 58 jobs. 29-Sep-2008 Mondi is planning to close its Holcombe paper mill in Lancashire with the loss of up to 90 jobs. 23-Sep-2008 Rowe the Printers of Hayle has ceased trading with the loss of about 50 jobs. 19-Sep-2008 Rigid Paper is to close its paper mill in Selby in January, with the loss of 86 jobs, in order to focus on its Rigid Corrugated operation. 18-Sep-2008 West Island Group is planning to relocate its Isle of Wight-based printing business to a new factory in Cowes, and has also announced the acquisition of Intereel, the Devon-based commercial print and packaging group. 15-Sep-2008 Begbies Traynor has been appointed liquidator at Peele Print (North), the Gateshead-based print broker. 11-Sep-2008 Calver Press has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of the remaining six jobs at its Ipswich-based printing business. 25-Aug-2008 Waddington & Ledger is cutting about 37 of the 145 jobs at its West Yorkshire-based direct mail and point-of-sale printing business. 22-Aug-2008 Tyne Tees Packaging is investing £1m in new machinery for its County Durham-based corrugated packaging business, and also aims to expand the factory and office space. 20-Aug-2008 Edward Thompson Group is planning to shed about 20 of the 300 jobs at its printing business in Sunderland. 20-Aug-2008 Kalamazoo Secure Solutions is considering plans to relocate its Birmingham-based printing plant and up to 150 staff. 18-Aug-2008 Polestar Greaves is to close its printing plant in Scarborough in January, with the loss of the remaining 190 jobs. 08-Aug-2008 Sappi Fine Paper Europe is planning to close its paper mill in Blackburn with the loss of up to 119 jobs. 06-Aug-2008 Belgravia Colour Printers of London has been bought out of administration by a newly-formed company called Church Street Litho. 01-Aug-2008 Bapco Closures has closed its packaging unit at Jurby on the Isle of Man, with the loss of 13 jobs. 30-Jul-2008 Schawk is to close its packaging factory in Leeds by the end of the year with the loss of up to 56 jobs, in order to transfer production to sites in Newcastle and Manchester. 28-Jul-2008 Thomas & Green is to close its filter papers and packaging factory in Hereford at the end of the month, with the loss of about 40 jobs. 18-Jul-2008 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council is to consider plans from SAICA of Spain to build a £250m recycled paper mill on Partington Wharfside in Carrington, with the creation of 200 jobs. 16-Jul-2008 Robert Horne is to close its paper merchant branches in Cardiff and Nottingham, in order to transfer the work to larger regional centres in Bristol and Birmingham. 07-Jul-2008 Nampak Cartons is planning to close its carton packaging factory at Crewkerne in Somerset with the loss of 108 jobs, and a further 17 jobs will go at Gillingham in Kent. 07-Jul-2008 Seda UK is to invest £4m in the expansion of its factory at Blackwood in Gwent, in order to expand paper cup and carton production and create 55 new jobs. 03-Jul-2008 Paragon Print & Packaging is to open a new £5m cartons factory near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire in December. 26-Jun-2008 SCA is to close its New Hythe containerboard mill in Kent in 2010 with the loss of up to 130 jobs, and its corrugated business will be sold to SAICA of Spain for £100m, who will build a new mill at Partington near Manchester. 19-Jun-2008 HH Print Management has secured £12m from Venture Structured Finance to fund the expansion of its Surrey-based printing business. 13-Jun-2008 Printing.com is looking to expand its chain of 261 franchised printing outlets to 400 over the next three years. 10-Jun-2008 Alternative Supply Company is planning to increase the workforce at its Northumberland-based packaging business from 45 to 60. 29-May-2008 Western Corrugated is to shed up to 60 of the 150 jobs at its corrugated cardboard factory in Cwmbran. 27-May-2008 Reed Print & Design is considering plans to close its printing plant in Washington and relocate some of the 148 jobs to an alternative site in the North East. 26-May-2008 Georgia-Pacific is to shed about 46 of the 335 jobs at its tissue paper factory in Bridgend. 23-May-2008 Corby Bottlers, the Northamptonshire-based wine bottler with 80 staff, is to be sold out of administration by KPMG to a non-UK wine firm this month. 08-May-2008 Media & Print Investments has closed its Butler & Tanner book printing plant in Frome, with the loss of 287 jobs. 29-Apr-2008 Unilever is to shed 48 of the 300 jobs at its Elida Faberge factory in Leeds by the end of the year, but £10m will be invested in the expansion of the site's aerosols deodorants business. 25-Apr-2008 Huhtamaki is to close the plastic wrapping department at its Gosport factory this autumn, with the loss of 90 jobs, and a further 70 jobs will be lost at its plant in Portadown. 24-Apr-2008 Artenius PET Packaging is to relocate its European headquarters and 27 staff to a 9,000 sq ft unit at Wrexham Technology Park over the next six months, but production will remain at Gresford Industrial Park . 23-Apr-2008 Sealed Air is to shed about 40 jobs at its food packaging factory in St Neots over the next few months. 22-Apr-2008 Office2office is to acquire TripleArc, the online print procurement firm, for £12m. 21-Apr-2008 Can-Pack of Poland is to create an initial 180 jobs at a new £40m drinks can factory due to open in Scunthorpe by the end of the year, and a second £20m phase could create a further 130 jobs over the next two years. 17-Apr-2008 Filtrona Filters is to shed up to 75 of the 375 jobs at its cigarette filters factory in Jarrow. 14-Apr-2008 International Greetings is planning to shed an unspecified number of the 579 jobs at its gift wrap operations in Hatfield and Caerphilly, in order to rationalise its worldwide manufacturing facilities. 07-Apr-2008 PG Packaging has submitted plans to Fenland District Council for a new storage building on its site in Coates, which could create up to 37 jobs. 03-Apr-2008 Magnadata is planning to shed up to 35 jobs at its ticket printing operation in Boston. 02-Apr-2008 Linpac is to close its plastic packaging factory in Walsall and a warehouse in Bromsgrove, with the loss of 300 jobs. 24-Mar-2008 Weidenhammer UK is seeking a suitable site in the Bradford area to manufacture containers, in order to triple the size of its new joint venture with Chesapeake to 160,000 sq ft by 2010. 20-Mar-2008 Cope Allman is to close two of the three factories of its recently-acquired Jaycare plastics business on North Tyneside, but most of the 200 staff will be retained. 19-Mar-2008 Gwalia Packaging is to invest £1.5m in the expansion of its plastics packaging factory in Pontypridd, including the installation of new automation equipment and the creation of an unspecified number of jobs. 18-Mar-2008 Betts is looking to relocate its Colchester-based toothpaste tubes factory and up to 300 staff to a new site "in the local area", to make way for a housing development. 12-Mar-2008 Leach's the Printers is to relocate its Abingdon-based printing business and 27 staff to a larger site in Nuffield Centrum by June. 10-Mar-2008 Oxprint, the Oxford-based print firm with six staff, has gone into liquidation through Robert Day & Company. 25-Feb-2008 TPF Group, the print management firm with sites in Brentford, Northampton and Guildford, is planning to shed up to 30 jobs. 22-Feb-2008 United Kingdom Hydrographic Office of Taunton is to invest £20m in a new printing facility for its navigation documents and books, and 130 staff will relocate by autumn 2010. 21-Feb-2008 Quebecor World has confirmed plans to close its printing plant in Corby with the loss of about 250 jobs. 15-Feb-2008 CCA Occasions is to relocate its greetings card business from Preston to Leyland next month. 08-Feb-2008 Bronnley is to close the packaging division at its toiletries factory in Brackley, with the loss of ten jobs. 08-Feb-2008 Maxell Europe is to close the packaging division at its site in Telford in March, with the loss of 90 jobs. 04-Feb-2008 DS Smith is to invest £104m in the production of corrugated case material at its Kemsley paper mill in Kent, and will acquire the adjacent New Thames Paper Mill from M-Real. 04-Feb-2008 Opus Land is to lease the 450,000 sq ft Opus Maximus warehouse in North Lincolnshire to CanPak of Poland. 04-Feb-2008 Buccleuch Printers, the Hawick-based printing company, is to go into voluntary liquidation with the loss of about 30 jobs. 29-Jan-2008 John Dickinson, the stationery firm, is to set up a £10m 108,000 sq ft headquarters at the Kings Warren business park being built near Mildenhall, with the relocation of 40 jobs from Cambridge and the creation of 50 new jobs. 24-Jan-2008 BemroseBooth, the printing firm with about 600 staff in Derby, Hull and Thornaby, has been put up for sale by US-based parent company Appleton. 18-Jan-2008 Britton Group, the flexible packaging company with 850 staff in Winsford, Hartlepool and Louth, is being put up for sale by venture capital firm LDC with a price tag of about £70m. 16-Jan-2008 Polestar is to close the magazine printing department at its Greaves plant in Scarborough, with the loss of up to 190 of the 380 jobs. 14-Jan-2008 Arquest is to close its disposable nappies factory at Holywell in Flintshire in March, with the loss of 85 jobs. 08-Jan-2008 Alternative Waste Solutions has secured a £2m cash injection to help fund the £14m expansion of its plant in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, which recycles waste plastics into food-grade packaging. 08-Jan-2008
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