Glass Factory To Create 400 Jobs

A new £120M glass packaging and distribution plant will create almost 400 jobs in Ellesmere Port. The North West Development Agency confirmed on 25th November a £4.9M grant to Northern Ireland-based Quinn Glass. The plant and a single furnace will be built at the site of the former Ince power station which will create 370 jobs by 2007. It will include one of the largest automated warehouses in Europe, capable of storing more than 150,000 pallets of filled and unfilled glass containers. The plant will also be one of only a handful worldwide that can manufacture and fill bottles at the same time. Quinn chose to site the factory in the North West over an alternative site in northern France.