Plastics manufacturer and retailer enters administration

A manufacturer and online retailer of polythene films, bags and packaging products has slipped into administration.

Shirlplass, based in Higham Ferrars, Northamptonshire, has called in administrators from KMPG to look after the day-to-day running of the firm.

Shirlplass’s parent company STM entered administration last year. At the time Shirplass was sold, taking on two employees from STM as well as STM boss Esther Evans, although she left the company in May this year. Shirlpass was then bought by Total Polyfilm, but this company too has since appointed administrators from KPMG.

For the year-ending 30 September 2018, Shirlplass made a loss of £136,000, down from a profit of £191,000 in 2017. At the time the accounts were filed, the company employed 18 people.

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