Investment gives glass company window for growth

The company hopes to use the funds to install a larger and more efficient bottle forming machine and a bulk palletiser for packing glass products at its Rotherham plant.

This is just part of a planned £12 million investment which will include a larger capacity furnace.

Beatson Clark specialises in providing glass packaging solutions for niche brands in the food, drink and pharmaceutical markets worldwide.

The Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is a flexible and competitive £3.2 billion fund operating across England from 2011 to 2017.

It supports projects and programmes that are using private sector investment to create economic growth and sustainable employment. 

Lynn Sidebottom, sales and marketing director at Beatson Clark, said: "This funding is fantastic news for Beatson Clark and for the local economy as it will enable us to strengthen the service we provide to the pharmaceutical sector.

"It will facilitate an expansion of our activities in the growing brewery sector and help to secure jobs for the future."

Beatson Clark expects the investment programme to be complete by March 2015.

A total of £50m has been allocated to businesses and organisations in Yorkshire from the fourth round of the flagship Regional Growth Fund (RGF) which was announced on Thursday.

The £506m fourth round of the RGF, said to have been the most competitive round so far, has provided funding to 102 companies and projects across the UK.

The cash is expected to leverage £2.8bn of additional private sector investment and create or safeguard 77,000 jobs.