The paper mill used to produce newsprint paper employing 530 people in the 1990s. However, that number dwindled with a decline in the demand for newsprint and the site was bought from UPM by family-owned Eren Holding in 2021.
It also includes an area which used to hold the blast furnace for Shotton Steelworks, which closed in 1980 with thousands of redundancies.
Eren Holding employs 14,000 people and has operations in sectors including energy production, paper manufacturing and retail.
Britain exports waste cardboard which is recycled overseas and imported back for sale in the UK.
Eren Holding said its new plant would process a quarter of the waste cardboard the UK currently sends abroad, and focus on creating containerboard – used to make packaging and corrugated boxes from recycled paper – as well as tissue products.
The company boasts it will be the most technologically advanced facility of its kind in Europe.
It also claimed it will turn Britain “from a net importer to a net exporter” of cardboard and tissue products and the development represents one of the “most significant foreign manufacturing investments in the UK in years”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rl8e7er4po,
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