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BemroseBooth is planning to shed up to 60 jobs in Derby, and its security print production work will relocate to Riverside Road on Pride Park in February. 21-Dec-2009 Webtech is to invest £5m in the expansion of its flexible labels business in Enniskillen, with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 16-Dec-2009 Boxline is to close its Leicester-based packaging supplies business this month, with the loss of the remaining six jobs. 14-Dec-2009 Casepak, the paper recycling and waste management company, is planning to set up a recycling facility on a 13-acre site at the Fairway Business Park in Leicester, with the creation of 90 jobs. 09-Dec-2009 Intertissue is looking into the possibility of extending its paper mill in Port Talbot, which could create up to 150 new jobs. 09-Dec-2009 Closures is to create 38 jobs at a new 30,000 sq ft plastic packaging factory about to open on its existing site in Mansfield. 03-Dec-2009 Kimberly Clark is to shed up to 25 of the 430 jobs at its non-woven fabrics factory in Barton-upon-Humber. 01-Dec-2009 Saica Pack is to shed up to 30 manufacturing and administration jobs at its packaging business in Peterlee. 25-Nov-2009 WRAP has issued a tender for the development of a new national call centre to provide advice on the sustainable use of resources, in preparation for the delivery of a number of Defra programmes from April 2010. 23-Nov-2009 Linpac, the Birmingham-based packaging group with 9,000 staff, is expected to be sold by Montagu Private Equity to a consortium of banks. 02-Nov-2009 Kruger Tissue is in discussions to sell some of its paper tissue operations in Gwynedd to Northwood Paper Sales, casting doubt on the future of 30 jobs. 02-Nov-2009 Paperlinx is planning to shed 65 back-office jobs at its Howard Smith Paper and PaperCo operations. 02-Nov-2009 Eagle Envelopes is to shed 30 of the 87 jobs at its envelopes manufacturing business in Bathgate. 02-Nov-2009 Just Chem has won planning permission to set up a new chemical packing facility in Tarporley, Cheshire. 28-Oct-2009 HPF Binders, the Suffolk-based printing firm with eight staff, has ceased trading. 20-Oct-2009 Cool Blue Box Company is looking to set up a new washing facility for fish boxes at Europarc in Grimsby, with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 19-Oct-2009 Bonnington Plastics of Loughborough and Pal International of Lutterworth hope to create up to 60 new jobs to cope with rising demand for the supply of disinfectant hand wipes. 14-Oct-2009 Rhodes Printing is expected to go into liquidation through Tenon Recovery, with the loss of 16 jobs at its printing business in St Helens. 12-Oct-2009 Clifton Packaging is planning to expand the 65-strong workforce at its Braunstone-based packaging business with up to 15 new jobs. 07-Oct-2009 Iggesund Paperboard is to shed up to 100 of the 400 jobs at its paper mill near Workington. 05-Oct-2009 Character Print & Design, the Essex-based commercial printing firm, is to go into voluntary liquidation through Vantis Business Recovery. 05-Oct-2009 F Bender is to shed up to 68 of the 200 jobs at its paper plates and napkins factory in Wrexham. 05-Oct-2009 Shore to Shore is expected to appoint Begbies Traynor as liquidator with the loss of all 60 jobs at its Derbyshire-based packaging business. 01-Oct-2009 TRM Packaging is planning to invest £12m in the expansion of its corrugated packaging factory in Burscough, West Lancashire, in order to secure the future of the 227-strong workforce. 28-Sep-2009 British Polythene Industries is investing £7m in the expansion of its film production site at Ardeer in Ayrshire, with the creation of 40 jobs. 28-Sep-2009 Simpson Group, the printing firm with 76 staff in Washington and 50 at Heathrow, has secured £3m to fund acquisitions. 24-Sep-2009 Ecco Newsprint is to start work on the development of a new £275m paper mill at Wilton on Teesside next year, which will create 200 jobs. 21-Sep-2009 LyondellBasell Industries is to close its LDPE plastic packaging and coatings plant in Trafford by the end of the year, with the loss of 50 jobs, in order to transfer production to Germany and France. 17-Sep-2009 Firstan is to set up an 80,000 sq ft pharmaceutical packaging warehouse at Cardinal Distribution Park in Huntingdon. 17-Sep-2009 Ultimate Packaging has secured £1m from Barclays Commercial to fund the acquisition of new machinery for its 60,000 sq ft food packaging factory in Grimsby. 16-Sep-2009 Kimberly Clark is said to be seeking a suitable location for a 350,000 sq ft distribution centre in the Greater Manchester area. 14-Sep-2009 Best Cover UV has closed its print coatings plant in London, and the machinery will transfer to its site in Bristol. 07-Sep-2009 Abbotts Creative Print of Lutterworth is expected to go into liquidation through Tenon, with the loss of 30 jobs. 07-Sep-2009 St Ives is considering plans to shed up to 54 of the 200 jobs at its printing plant in Plymouth. 27-Aug-2009 Mondi is to shed 28 of the 160 jobs at its corrugated packaging factory near Diss in Norfolk. 26-Aug-2009 Wasdell Packaging is to expand its pharmaceutical contract packing operations in Gloucestershire and Swindon, following the sale of a majority stake in the business to the founder of TD Packaging. 17-Aug-2009 Nampak Plastics Europe is to close its milk bottles factory in Newport Pagnell, with the loss of 80 of the 200 jobs. 17-Aug-2009 Skymark Performance Films is to invest £3m in the expansion of its plastics packaging factory in Scunthorpe, with the creation of 80 jobs. 12-Aug-2009 Severn Valley Packaging has ceased trading with the loss of 45 jobs at its packaging manufacturing business in Telford. 06-Aug-2009 PaperCo is to close its Southern Paper branch in Camberley, with the loss of an estimated ten jobs. 04-Aug-2009 Dotprint Litho, the North London-based printing company, has gone into liquidation through Kingston Smith. 04-Aug-2009 Active Envelope Printing, the London-based envelope manufacturer, has gone into liquidation. 22-Jul-2009 BemroseBooth is shedding an estimated 30 jobs from its 300-strong workforce in Derby, in order to transfer its promotional products printing work to Wednesbury. 14-Jul-2009 Klockner Pentaplast is to invest £3m in the expansion of its PET films production plant in Crumlin this year. 13-Jul-2009 Winstonmead is to relocate its Shepshed Knight division from Shepshed to its newly-acquired Q3 Print Project Management office in Loughborough, creating a combined printing business with more than 20 staff. 09-Jul-2009 Mailway has appointed Lenham Storage of Maidstone to provide contract packing and storage services under the name of Mailway Southern, which will create 25 new jobs. 08-Jul-2009 British Polythene Industries has closed its packaging factory in Cowdenbeath, with the loss of 35 jobs. 06-Jul-2009 Charisma Colour Print is expected to go into liquidation with the loss of about 20 jobs at its Sheffield-based printing business. 02-Jul-2009 Diageo is to shed up to 900 jobs over the next two years with the closure of a packaging plant in Kilmarnock and the Port Dundas distillery in Glasgow, but 400 jobs will be created through the £86m expansion of a packaging plant in Leven, Fife. 02-Jul-2009 ColepCCL is planning to close its aerosols factory in Scunthorpe with the loss of about 150 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Germany, Portugal and Poland. 02-Jul-2009 Primopost has secured funding to extend its 40,000 sq ft flexible packaging factory in Buxton, which employs more than 80 staff. 18-Jun-2009 Dexter Graphics has gone into liquidation through Shipleys, with the loss of 22 jobs at its Dartford-based printing business. 18-Jun-2009 De La Rue has won a £400m government contract to supply new biometric passports over the next ten years. 15-Jun-2009 Clayton Park, the Lancashire-based print finishing services firm, has gone into liquidation through Begbies Traynor, and the 53 staff have been transferred to a new company called Steelmark. 15-Jun-2009 Pureprint Group has taken on 12 former staff of Paterson Printing, in order to expand its Uckfield-based digital printing business. 09-Jun-2009 Pindar is to shed 14 of the 140 jobs at its commercial printing operation in Preston. 08-Jun-2009 SAICA Packaging is to shed 26 of the 176 jobs at its corrugated packaging factory in Hartlepool. 04-Jun-2009 Printing.com is looking to expand its Manchester-based chain of 283 printing outlets to 300 this year. 02-Jun-2009 Best Cover UV has closed the former Celloglas printing site in Manchester with the loss of 12 jobs. 02-Jun-2009 Central Bottling International is to shed up to 45 of the 133 jobs at its catering equipment manufacturing business near Doncaster. 28-May-2009 Wyndeham Press Group is planning to shed about 32 of the 96 jobs at its Wyndeham Grange printing site in West Sussex. 28-May-2009 Sessions of York, the adhesive label printing firm with 100 staff, is seeking a buyer. 26-May-2009 St Ives is planning to close its web offset site in Andover, with the loss of up to 100 jobs. 25-May-2009 Celloglas, the decorative print finisher, is to close its Seacroft production facility in Leeds with the loss of up to 29 jobs, while its Woodley office will relocate to its nearby site in Reading. 20-May-2009 Rexam Plastic Packaging is to close its factory on the Deeside industrial park in Flintshire, with the loss of 70 jobs. 18-May-2009 Leonard Curtis has been appointed liquidator at the Kidderminster printing site of Ward Knowles, with the loss of about 30 jobs. 13-May-2009 Chesapeake is to transfer the headquarters of its paperboard and plastics packaging business from the US to Amersham, following its £330m acquisition by Irving Place Capital Management and Oaktree Capital Management. 06-May-2009 Harman Technology is planning to shed up to 80 of the 344 jobs at its photographic papers business in Mobberley. 05-May-2009 Promens is planning to shed 13 of the 220 jobs at its plastic packaging factory in Beccles. 04-May-2009 United Closures & Plastics is planning to shed up to 55 of the 260 jobs at its drinks packaging plant in Bridge of Allan, near Stirling. 27-Apr-2009 Tenon Group has been appointed liquidator at Chichester-based RPM Reprographics and Littlehampton-based Bay Print Sussex, with the loss of up to 80 jobs. 27-Apr-2009 St Ives is planning to close its CD packaging plant in Crayford, London, with the loss of up to 129 jobs. 09-Apr-2009 Mailway Packaging Solutions is to create 40 jobs at its new contract packaging operation in Glasgow. 07-Apr-2009 Trader Media Group is planning to shed up to 125 jobs at its Apple Web Offset printing facility in Warrington. 02-Apr-2009 Polestar is to close its Newspac polybagging facility in Pershore, Worcestershire, in June, with the loss of 78 jobs. 30-Mar-2009 Flint Group is to close its printing inks factory in Slinfold, West Sussex, with the loss of up to 58 jobs. 30-Mar-2009 Bodleian Library has confirmed plans to build a 300,000 sq ft book storage facility at Keypoint in Swindon by 2010. 26-Mar-2009 RPC Containers is to shed up to 50 of the 259 jobs at its plastic containers manufacturing business in Blackburn. 26-Mar-2009 Iceberg Marketing has gone into liquidation through Marshman Price, with the loss of 13 jobs at its Northampton-based print management business. 19-Mar-2009 Goss Graphic Systems is to shed up to 60 of the 150 jobs at its printing press factory in Preston. 18-Mar-2009 Elliott Baxter is to relocate its Birmingham-based paper merchants' branch to a larger site in April, while its Southampton branch is being merged with a larger site in Farnborough. 17-Mar-2009 De La Rue is to create 70 new production jobs at its banknote printing plant in Gateshead, taking the workforce to 240. 16-Mar-2009 Arjo Wiggins is considering plans to shed 48 of the 440 jobs at its Stoneywood paper mill in Bucksburn. 12-Mar-2009 MetroMail is looking to expand the 250-strong workforce at its printing business in County Durham, following a £5m investment in new equipment. 12-Mar-2009 DS Smith is to close a paper machine at its Kemsley Mill in Kent next month, with the loss of 40 jobs. 10-Mar-2009 Mondi is considering plans to close its corrugated box factory in Scunthorpe, with the loss of 160 jobs. 02-Mar-2009 BGP is to shed up to 57 of the 500 jobs at its printing business in Bicester. 26-Feb-2009 Kelvin Graphics, the Hyde-based printing firm with 65 staff, has gone into liquidation through Beever & Struthers, and negotiations are taking place with potential buyers. 25-Feb-2009 Sonoco is said to be planning to close its cardboard tubing factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire, with the loss of 33 jobs. 23-Feb-2009 Anson is considering plans to close its food packaging plant in Wrexham with the loss of 62 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site in Cambridgeshire. 19-Feb-2009 International Paper has confirmed plans to close its paper mill in Inverurie by the end of March, with the loss of 350 jobs. 18-Feb-2009 Fisherprint is considering plans to shed up to 15 of the 84 jobs at its pharmaceutical printing business in Peterborough. 17-Feb-2009 Sealed Air is to shed 21 of the 360 jobs at its food packaging manufacturing operation in St Neots. 12-Feb-2009 Fujifilm Sericol has shed 30 jobs at its screen manufacturing plant in Broadstairs, Kent. 11-Feb-2009 CypherCo is to close its storage containers factory in Hereford with the loss of 20 jobs, in order to outsource its manufacturing. 04-Feb-2009 Nestle and IPS First have announced plans to create 100 jobs at a new food co-packing facility due to open at the Nestle site in York in June. 04-Feb-2009 Paragon Labels is to shed 50 jobs at its label-making factories in Boston, Spalding, Gainsborough, Cramlington, Wisbech, Thetford and Hereford. 29-Jan-2009 St Ives is to shed about 100 jobs at its magazine printing plants in Plymouth, Roche, Andover and Peterborough. 28-Jan-2009 Communisis is to shed about 60 of the 700 jobs at its printing plant in Stourton, Leeds. 26-Jan-2009 Cambridge University Press is to shed 133 jobs in its Cambridge-based printing business. 23-Jan-2009 Nampak is to close its MY Healthcare packaging plant in Thorpe, Surrey, with the loss of 99 jobs, having decided not to rebuild the site following a fire. 22-Jan-2009 Scott Group is to close its Crofton Pallets branch in Grimsby, with the loss of 27 jobs. 20-Jan-2009 Weidenhammer UK is planning to invest a further £2m in the expansion of its cardboard packaging production plant in Bradford, and the 45-strong workforce will increase. 19-Jan-2009 Vitesse Print, the London-based printing firm with 45 staff, is expected to go into liquidation through Abbott Fielding. 15-Jan-2009 BemroseBooth is to shed 65 of the 300 jobs at its printing operation in Derby. 14-Jan-2009 Hallmark is to shed 65 jobs at its greetings cards factory in Bradford over the next few months. 12-Jan-2009 Summerhall Press, the Edinburgh-based printing firm, has been placed into liquidation by new owners Stewarts, with the loss of up to 135 jobs. 07-Jan-2009
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