Excelsior opens 20m flexible packaging plant in Wales

The Flintshire-based firm exports 60% of its products to 14 countries and said the new facility represented the biggest single investment in UK flexible packaging this century.

Managing director Dave Moorcroft said: “At a time when some high visibility names in the packaging industry are deserting the UK, we have put our faith and money in the outstanding skills and technologies we have nurtured here.”

The 8.5-acre site has a dedicated research, design, development and prototyping facility, as well as in-line packaging production and printing machines. It also meets the ISO 9001 standard for quality management and the BRC/IOP standard for clean manufacturing.

“Flexible packaging already boasts minimal impact due to its lightweight, low-volume attributes that give customers excellent resource minimisation credentials. On top of this our new facility has state-of-the-art environmental protection at every stage of the process,” said Moorcroft.

Excelsior produced more than a billion packs last year. As well as the Flint site it has a film extrusion facility in Nelson, Lancashire.

The investment was backed by £1m funding from the Welsh Assembly.

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