THE Wilkins Group has announced a £150,000 investment on a new Heiber and Schröber tray forming machine to help in the “fight against plastic”.
The firm said the purchase follows a string of investments in the past 18 months, all designed to meet demand after some well documented issues regarding plastic.
Justin Wilkins, group sales director said, “As a business, we are seeing an increase in demand for cardboard trays. We are being approached daily by various companies, ones that we know and ones that we don’t know, all asking for options. We are in essence, building capacity to cope with that extra demand.”
The new machine will sit alongside four other tray forming machines within the group, and will be located at the Colwick site in Nottingham. Wilkins said the machine will be capable of producing over 100 million cardboard trays a year.
