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Carl Sargeant AM Welcomes Multi Million Investment for Shotton Paper Mill
Alyn & Deeside Welsh Assembly Member, Carl Sargeant has today welcomed the news that UPM is to invest £17 million in a materials recovery facility at its UPM Shotton paper mill.
The investment will further strengthen the mill's integrated operations and create up to 160 jobs at the mill site when operating at full capacity. Construction of the facility will commence immediately and will be completed by January 2011.
The materials recovery facility has been designed to allow UPM Shotton to sort dry recyclables such as plastic bottles, cardboard, newspapers, magazines and metals.
The investment is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government with a £1.7m Single Investment Fund grant and will have up to150 people working on the construction phase of the facility.
UPM is the world's largest user of recycled fibre in graphic papers consuming annually 3 million tonnes of recovered paper. The new facility will enable the Shotton mill, which currently recovers approximately 640,000 tonnes of recovered newspapers and magazines per annum, to source high quality paper from co-mingled sources.
Once fully operational, the facility will sort up to 200,000 tonnes of recyclable material of which 120,000 tonnes will be newspapers and magazines - providing 20% of the recovered paper used as raw material in the mill's paper production. Surplus recyclable material will be recycled by other reprocessors as required.
Welcoming the investment Carl Sargeant, Welsh Assembly Member for Alyn & Deeside, said,
“It is excellent news for the local economy, Shotton Paper Mill is the best in the Country and I am delighted that the Welsh Assembly has been able to provide grant funding for this exciting new development. This investment will ensure Shotton Paper Mill’s continued success and the new facility will definitely be a boost to the local area providing additional quality employment, this is great news for my constituency."