There is very sad
news that the Arjowiggins paper mills in the UK have been placed into administration. There are two paper mills involved employing over 460 people, the mills are in Stoneywood (near Aberdeen) and Chartham in Kent. The same Arjowiggins mills were
last in administration in 2019 and the mills in France were either
closed or sold but these two UK mills were bought
by the management in a deal which was backed to the tune of £7million by Scottish Enterprise. The group also has overseas subsidiaries include the
Guarro Casas mill in Spain, and Quzhou mill in China, neither of which is included in the insolvency proceedings ( ...which is a bit strange!)
Arjowiggins manufacture many of the brands that readers of this blog will be familiar with including the Curious Collection, Keaykolour, Popset, Conqueror, Rives, which are shown in their lavish swatchbooks (design by
North)...
As a result of this situation there may well be shortages for some of these papers. At Fenner Paper, we are increasing our stockholding, especially of our
Stardream range (which is a competitor product to Curious Metallics) our Zeta range of premium business stationery paper, our
Colorset text and cover coloured paper range and of course our Spectral transparent paper range.
Posted by Justin Hobson 23.09.2022
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