Company consolidates its UK manufacturing businesses

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Wales-based Boardlink Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year by combining several of its businesses to become a single trading and manufacturing company, Boardlink.

The privately owned manufacturing company formerly traded as Deva Hawarden Board and Display until October 2016 and merged with its sister company Paperboard Products in January 2017.

It celebrates over 50 years of trading this year and the consolidation marks 10 years since the current owners purchased the group of businesses.

The £22.5 million turnover company employs 100 staff and specialises in carton board sales, conversion and lamination, claims to be the largest carton board press forming manufacturer of paper plates and dual-ovenable board trays in the UK, and manufactures a wide range of catering and janitorial wipes and cloths.

The consolidation has also been supported by a £4.5 million reinvestment that includes the purchase of manufacturing and storage facilities, totalling 350,000 square feet.

Ben Still, managing director of Boardlink, said: “This exciting consolidation not only makes our branding clearer, stronger and more succinct, it also enables Boardlink to provide greater clarity on the products and services that we offer to carton board mills, printers, ready meal manufacturers and retailers.

“Over the last 10 years we have actively merged the operational and management activities and with the recent investment, it was the right time to merge the remaining businesses and trade as one company to the market place.”