From the Durham County Advertiser 50 years ago... (From Durham Times)
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From the Durham County Advertiser 50 years ago...
6:30am Friday 22nd June 2012 in Looking Back
From the Durham County Advertiser 50 years ago...
New jobs for 150 people at Durham are promised by a packaging company’s decision to transfer the remainder of its production from London to the North-East.
The company, Mono Containers, will begin to expand production at its factory on the Dragonville trading estate this autumn.
Mr Charles Grey, MP for Durham, welcomed the news “Anything that smells of employment is a pretty sweet smell indeed,” he said. “I am quite delighted.”
Mono Containers is adding 27,000 square feet to its present Dragonville factory for developing plastic containers.
This factory already employs 400 of whom 80 per cent are women. The gradual change from paper to plastic container production has now made the company’s Park Royal factory in North West London uneconomic. Another 25,000 square feet of new space at Dragonville will accommodate the remaining paper output.
