400 new jobs expected as Finnish tissue paper firm announces new Yorkshire factory

Yorkshire Post

Around 400 jobs are expected to be created in East Yorkshire after Finnish tissue paper manufacturer Metsä Tissue has announced its plans to build the UKs largest tissue paper mill.

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00:00 Hello, I'm Michael Crosland, Business Reporter with the Yorkshire Post, and we have news

00:04 that a potential 400 jobs could be created in East Yorkshire after Finnish tissue paper

00:11 manufacturer Meta Tissue has announced its plans to build the UK's largest tissue paper

00:16 mill. The firm has proposed to build the factory in Goule, with construction taking place in

00:23 several phases over the coming decade on a 211 acre site. As well as 400 direct jobs

00:31 created within the mill, Meta Tissue also says that the construction will create thousands

00:37 of indirect jobs across the supply chain and in the local economy. The announcement of

00:43 the planned investment follows an agreement between Wycland, which has long-term development

00:48 rights to the site, and Meta Tissue. Wycland managing director Dominic Gibbons said the

00:54 firm had identified the potential of the new site a few years ago and that it was now delighted

01:00 to have secured a major international investor. Meta Tissue added that the new facility would

01:06 significantly reduce the quantity of tissue products imported into the UK and Ireland

01:12 and that it will increase the UK's self-sufficiency in tissue products by more than 30%. The firm

01:19 also said the factory will use the latest in sustainable production technology. That's

01:25 all we have on the story at the minute. I'm Michael Crossland reporting for the Yorkshire

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