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17th November 2020 at 15:59 #1077
Richard Moyle
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Chris

I note that in the profile it states that Wolvercote was shut between 1970 to 2015, this is not correct.

The mill was active to 1997, when the then owner Sappi Europe SA (my ex employer) closed the mill following the aquisition of KNP / Leykam and in particular the KNP Maastricht Mill in Holland which produced label paper.

Also Sappi Ltd purchased the mill in August 1990 as part of a 2 mill deal including Star Paper Mill at Feniscowles, Blackburn.

At the same time Sappi Ltd also purchased 3 mills from DRG (Nash, Transcript and Keynsham)

Sappi the split the 5 mills into two divisions –

Graphic Paper (Nash, Transcript, Blackburn (part)

Speciality Paper (Keynsham, Wolvercote, Blackburn (cast coated Astralux and later MFBK sack kraft)

regards

Richard