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With a turnover of over €350m, the business employs some 1,400 people worldwide. Total annual film capacity currently stands at more than 120,000 tonnes. Production is based on sites on three continents, with dedicated sales offices throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia along with agents and distributors across the globe. |
With a turnover of over €350m, the business employs some 1,400 people worldwide. Total annual film capacity currently stands at more than 120,000 tonnes. Production is based on sites on three continents, with dedicated sales offices throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia along with agents and distributors across the globe. |
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==British Cellophane Ltd== |
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In 1935, '''[[British Cellophane Ltd]]''', a joint venture between La Cellophane SA and [[Samuel Courtauld|Courtaulds]] opened a major factory producing [[Cellophane]] in Bridgwater [[1937]]. |
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BCL products were exported worldwide post World War II, and the company won the Queen's Award to Industry in 1974. The company was bought by '''UCB Films''' in [[1996]], later called '''Innovia';'. |
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==Closure of Bridgwater, Somerset== |
==Closure of Bridgwater, Somerset== |
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Revision as of 18:31, 26 April 2006
Innovia Films is the world's leading supplier of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) and cellulose films for speciality packaging, labelling, graphic arts and industrial products.
With a turnover of over €350m, the business employs some 1,400 people worldwide. Total annual film capacity currently stands at more than 120,000 tonnes. Production is based on sites on three continents, with dedicated sales offices throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia along with agents and distributors across the globe.
British Cellophane Ltd
In 1935, British Cellophane Ltd, a joint venture between La Cellophane SA and Courtaulds opened a major factory producing Cellophane in Bridgwater 1937.
BCL products were exported worldwide post World War II, and the company won the Queen's Award to Industry in 1974. The company was bought by UCB Films in 1996, later called Innovia';'.
Closure of Bridgwater, Somerset
In 2004, due to dwindling sales of cellophane through use of alternative packaging options, and the fact that Viscose is becoming less common because of the polluting effects of carbon disulfide and other by-products of the process, Innovia decided to close one of it's two cellophane plants to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. British officials offered a $120,000 tax break over three years to Innovia to save the plant at Bridgwater, England; while Kansas offered $2 million if it kept the plant at Tecumseh east of Topeka, Kansas open. Resultantly the Bridgwater factory closed in the summer of 2005.
List of Global Offices & Production facilities
- Australia - Melbourne
- Benelux - Merelbeke
- Brazil - São Paulo
- Canada - Smyrna, Georgia
- China - Shanghai
- France - Nanterre
- Germany - Köln
- Italy - Novara
- Mexico - Nuevo Leon
- Russia - Moscow
- South Africa - Edenglen
- Spain - Burgos
- United Kingdom - Wigton, Cumbria
- USA - Atlanta GA, Tecumseh KA