Riverside picks up bottle order

Packaging News, 01 October 2006

 

South Wales-based bottle firm Riverside Plastics has created 250ml and 500ml bottles for a new range of anti-bacterial handwashes being produced by Yorkshire-based soap manufacturer John Drury & Co.

 

The 250ml bottle is from Riverside’s standard range, while the 500ml bottle is a new shape and design for the firm. Both bottles have been extrusion blow-moulded in natural high-density polyethylene (HDPE), using pumps supplied by Bespak for the 250ml and Seaquist for the 500ml. Labels come from SA Labels of Keighley, Bradford.

 

John Drury will supply the handwashes to be sold as own-branded goods by Morrisons and Booker under the Happy Shopper label.

 

Linpac to sell Viscount Plastics

Jane Ellis, packagingnews.co.uk, 08 April 2008

 

Linpac Group has put Viscount Plastics, its Australian and New Zealand business, up for sale to focus on its business in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

 

The sale will be managed by Deutsche Bank. It is thought that rival packaging groups such as Amcor, Visy and NCI and local private equity firms could be interested in Viscount, which accounts for 7% of Linpac Group's £1.1bn turnover. The transaction is expected to take about three months.

 

 

Linpac's owner, London-based Montagu Private Equity, paid £860m for the group in 2003. Linpac bought 51% of Viscount Plastics in 2001 after acquiring a 49% interest in the company in March 1999.

 

 

Viscount employs 600 people in Australia and New Zealand.

 

 

The firm makes blow-moulded containers and industrial packaging, as well as water tanks, plastic garden furniture, crates, buckets and plastic bottles.

 

 

Key markets include food retail and supply chain, water conservation, and specialist coating and adhesive packaging for the chemical sector.