CARL SARGEANT WELCOMES £20 MILLION MANUFACTURING SITE TO DEESIDE

Alyn & Deeside AM Carl Sargeant is delighted with the news that Excelsior Technologies has built a new flexible packaging facility in Deeside. The new flexible packaging facility is located in Deeside Industrial Park and is spread over 8.5 acres.

The Deeside facility is a film-manufacturing plant that feeds Excelsior's own finished pack production process.

Excelsior is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of designed flexible packers. The company is a leader in microwave steam packaging and medical sterilisable packaging. It has manufacturing facilities in three regions – Deeside, Burnley and Salford. Deeside, where the new facility is located, is also the headquarters of the company.

The company's operations at the Flint and Salford sites have been integrated into the new Deeside facility. While few of the operations at the Salford site have been transferred to the Deeside plant, the Flint plant's operations have been completely relocated and the Flint facility is set to close. Employees at both the old sites have been offered jobs at the new Deeside plant.

The Welsh Assembly Government granted £1m to Excelsior in support of its economic benefits to the region and the 200 jobs that it promised to create.

Carl Sargeant AM for Alyn & Deeside said,

This is great news for the local economy it is one of the largest manufacturing sites in the area and the new facility will safeguard over 200 jobs. The proposal for offering funding support to Excelsior to build the Deeside facility was put to the vote in the Welsh Assembly. The proposal received a strong vote of confidence and the financing was provided from the government's Single Investment Fund.