# Aegg to open first major UK warehouse and packaging plant near Eye, Suffolk

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-08-23
- Where: Eye, Suffolk, United Kingdom
- Value: $3.80M (3.10M GBP)
- Jobs: 50
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 60,000 sq feet, expandable to 100,000 sq feet
- Products: glass jars and bottles, glass beverage bottles, rigid recyclable plastic food packaging
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Aegg](https://endata.com/companies/2636.md)
- [New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership](https://endata.com/companies/5442.md) (partner)
- [Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking](https://endata.com/companies/5443.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [aegg.co.uk](https://www.aegg.co.uk/blog/news/item/aegg-gearing-up-to-open-our-first-major-uk-warehouse-facilities-later-in-2019), 2019-08-23: "£3.1 million is being invested by Aegg Ltd in improving and equipping this new facility, enabling production and warehousing operations and will result in creating 50 new jobs."
- [ukdirectormagazines.co.uk](https://ukdirectormagazines.co.uk/2019-9-2-aegg-to-open-its-first-major-uk-warehouse-in-eye/), 2019-09-02: "£3.1 million is being invested by Aegg Ltd in improving and equipping this new facility, enabling production and warehousing operations and will result in creating 50 new jobs."

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