£1.3Million plant opens in Littleborough

Elliott Absorbent Products, the UK’s foremost manufacturer and supplier of Food Absorbents and Paper Consumables has announced the opening of their new coating plant at Greenvale Business Park, Littleborough, Lancs. The wholly owned facility of 15,000 square feet is built to exceed the rigorous standards of BRC/IoP, the major european standard for the production of food contact materials.

Within the plant is sited a new laminator built to a demanding specification by Double R Controls of Heywood. The laminator is capable of bonding a variety of filmic and paper substrates to an allied and large mix of non-wovens and airlaids, webbed to laminate up to 1.7metres and of bonding at over 200 linear metres per minute.

Commenting on the expansion, Managing Director Matt Hankins said: “This new facility gives us both independence of supply for food pad materials and also a large platform to offer specialised substrates for the emerging markets in bio-degradable, ovenable and medical markets.”

This investment of over £1.3m is the first in a three year expansion programme intended to make Elliotts a world leader in absorbent and food contact consumables.

Date article online: 30/04/2008