# Wilkins Group invests £150,000 in tray forming machine

The Wilkins Group has invested £150,000 on a new Heiber and Schröber tray forming machine for its Nottingham site. The machine will be capable of producing over 100 million cardboard trays a year.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2018-04-15
- Where: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Value: $210K (150K GBP)
- Starts operating: Apr 2018
- Status: announced
- Capacity: over 100 million cardboard trays per year
- Products: cardboard trays
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Wilkins Group](https://endata.com/companies/8933.md)

## Sources

- [packagingnews.co.uk](https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/equipment/wilkins-group-150000-tray-forming-machine-investment-19-04-2018), 2018-04-19: "The Wilkins Group has invested £150,000 on a new Heiber and Schröber tray forming machine for its Nottingham based site 'to help in the fight against plastic'."
- [gedlingeye.co.uk](https://www.gedlingeye.co.uk/colwick-firms-new-investment-to-help-in-fight-against-plastic/), 2018-04-27: "We are in essence, building capacity to cope with that extra demand."
- [packagingnews.co.uk](https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/machinery-news/page/17), 2018-05-01: "The Wilkins Group has invested £150,000 on a new Heiber and Schröber tray forming machine for its Nottingham based site ‘to help in the fight against plastic’."

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