Tissue maker SCA expansion creates 100 jobs
SWEDISH-owned tissue manufacturer SCA is creating 100 jobs at its Skelmersdale converting mill.
The company has opened a new production hall that will double the capacity at its Pimbo Road site. Staff will be hired over the remainder of this year, taking total employee numbers to 290.
The investment in the site has created an additional nine production lines making hand towels, napkins, wipers and jumbo toilet rolls for the ‘away-from-home’ professional market, including local authorities, the NHS, hotel chains and motorway services.
The mill also produces the well-known household tissue brand Velvet and own brand tissue products for leading supermarket chains.
Site manager Mark Mannering said: “This is very good news for Skelmersdale. This will double our capacity here and makes us SCA’s main UK production site of products for the UK professional market.
“It will also see a significant increase in volume of products exported to other markets across Europe.”
As a converting mill, the Skelmersdale site takes in rolls of paper made at other SCA mills in the UK and converts this into the finished products.
Two of the lines being installed at the mill are brand new, while the others are being transferred from an SCA site in Spain and from Oughtibridge, near Sheffield, which is due to close next year.
The new production hall was officially opened by Sune Lundin, European president of SCA’s away-from-home professional hygiene business.
He said: “This expansion of our Skelmersdale site underlines SCA’s commitment to the long-term future of the site and our confidence in its highly skilled workforce.”
