SCA ‘brings New Hythe mill closure forward’, says Unite

The news came somewhat as a surprise as the Swedish paper and packaging company originally announced that the closure would take place in mid-2010.

“We are pretty sure that the SCA plant in New Hythe will cease trading sometime in the spring,” Unite national officer Peter Ellis told Packaging News.

Ellis said that Unite’s members at the site were “considering their position in regards to redundancy payments” and that the union would not do anything “to put the redundancies in jeopardy”.

SCA employs 130 people at the New Hythe mill, which produces 240,000 tonnes of testliner and fluting a year.

An SCA spokesman declined to comment on the situation at New Hythe ahead of the publication of the company’s quarterly results next week.

SCA announced that the plant would close when it agreed to sell its UK packaging operations to SAICA for £100m in June last year.

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