Innovia Films Ltd
| Limited company | |
| Industry | Packaging |
| Headquarters | Wigton, Cumbria, United Kingdom |
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Area served
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25 countries |
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Key people
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Malcolm Fallen, Chairman Mark Robertshaw, CEO |
| Products | Speciality films |
| Parent | Innovia Holdings |
| Website | www |
Innovia Films is a British international manufacturer and supplier of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and cellulose films for speciality packaging, labelling, graphic arts and industrial products. It was once known as UCB Films.
Headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, the company is exclusively focused on speciality films, including biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP), used in many wrapping applications and for banknote production in Canada, Australia, Britain and other countries. Total annual film capacity currently stands at more than 120,000 tonnes.
In 1926, Société Industrielle de la Cellophane (SIDAC) was founded with a factory in Ghent, Belgium. Six years later SIDAC formed a company in the UK to distribute its Ghent-produced film. This later became British Sidac Ltd, which opened its first production plant at St Helens in 1934. Also in 1934, British New Wrap Co Ltd was formed in Wigton, and production of cellulose film began at the site which had previously been set up to produce Rayon. In 1935, Courtaulds and La Cellophane SA joined forces to produce and sell Cellophane in the UK. This new venture, British Cellophane Ltd (BCL) began production at a major new plant in Bridgwater, Somerset in 1937. In 1942, La Cellophane Espanola was founded in Burgos, Spain
In 1961 ICI developed Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene, which, because of its clarity, gloss, sparkle, crispness and grease resistance, resembled cellulose film rather than polyethylene to which it is chemically related. In 1963 British Rayophane and British Sidac merged under the British Sidac name and, four years later entered into a joint venture with ICI to manufacture BOPP on the Wigton site. A new £3m factory was built to be operated by this new company called Sidex Ltd. In 1973 British Sidac became a wholly owned subsidiary of the UCB Group of Belgium. In 1982, the British Sidac plant at St Helens was closed and in 1987, UCB Films acquired La Cellophane Espanola.
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