The new management team at British firm, GB Glass, has announced an investment programme worth
UK 27.4 million to reshape the company and prepare for growth in new and existing markets.
The compan…
The new management team at British firm, GB Glass, has announced an investment programme worth UK 27.4 million to reshape the company and prepare for growth in new and existing markets. The company produces drinking glasses, lighting and pharmaceutical components, and glassmaking machinery at three sites in central and north-east England. These production facilities are to be restructured in the initial phase of the investment. The plant at Harworth should benefit from new jobs in a UK 13 million plan which will see the manufacture of lighting and pharmaceutical tubing, and the production of lighting components moved there from the firm“s Chesterfield and Lemington sites respectively. The small Lemington factory has been scheduled for closure early in 1996 while Chesterfield is to receive UK 14 billion and be restructured as a dedicated centre for glass tableware manufacture. Newly-appointed chief executive officer, Don Greaves, describes the move towards dedicated production sites as “a key step in the development of the company”.