Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Liquid Packaging

From Graces Guide

1960 A jointly-owned company was formed by Metal Box Co and John Waddington Ltd to handle the manufacture and sales development of paper containers for packaging liquids, fruit, etc [1]

A factory would be built at Scunthorpe[2]

1961 The jointly-owned company, Liquid Packaging Ltd, was formed by Metal Box Co and a new company jointly owned by John Waddington Ltd and International Paper Co of New York, to handle the distribution and sale of machines for making and filling Pure-Pak paper containers for liquids[3]

1965 International Paper purchased Waddingtons' share in the company and sold Waddingtons their shares in the Waddington-International Paper JV which was renamed Plastona[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 22, 1960
  2. The Times, Dec 30, 1960
  3. The Times, Jan 10, 1961
  4. The Times, Feb 08, 1965