UK-based packaging firm Northern Paper Board has announced plans for a £2m plus investment and development program. The company has committed £500,000 to new automated machinery and technology over the next four months.
Northern Paper Board said the company has already invested £1.8m in plant and machinery at its six-acre site in Engine Shed Lane, since December 2009.
The company has installed new die cutting, folder gluing and printing machinery, along with an automated pallet-wrapping line, a total outlay of around £1m and spent £800,000 on new-build production, warehousing and office extensions in November last year, which have seen the facility expand to 40,000ft².
Northern Paper Board will install further robots to feed printers and folder gluers, along with an automated stacking system for its palletisation line, which will give the firm the capacity to produce up to 150,000 boxes on a single day shift.
The company's turnover in the past three years alone has increased from £5.4m to an estimated £8.3m in the current financial year.
Northern Paper Board manufactures solid board boxes for the food processing industry and supplies the meat, poultry, fish and horticultural packaging sectors across the UK and southern Ireland.
