Title: Royal opening for state-of-the-art printing factory
Publication: Leeds Business Update
Date: January 2005
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The newly built state-of-the-art premises of one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of printing and converting of flexible packaging, Roberts Mart and Co Ltd, was recently given a royal opening from His Royal Highness The Duke of York, in his role as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.
Staff, customers, family and friends of Chamber member Roberts Mart watched as the Duke, formally opened the 80,000 square foot factory. For more than 120 years the Leeds-based company occupied the same site in the city but in August the whole operation moved to the Thornes Business Park and now the £8.75 million purpose built factory is officially open
Located on a seven-acre site, the factory is the largest investment in the Aire Valley area to date, with £3.25 million invested in plants and another £5.5 million in the building alone.

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