Trio of renewals
Logistics company, C M Downton, has secured contract renewals with three major paper and packaging industry clients, worth around £3.5m a year.
Scandinavian paper manufacturer Holmen Paper has renewed its contract with Downton for a further two years following a competitive tender. The contract sees Downton handling the movement of all products coming into Sheerness Docks from its Scandinavian paper mills, distributing to Holmen’s customer base across the Midlands and the South of England.
Downton’s contract with newsprint and magazine paper manufacturer Norske Skog has also been renewed following the Norwegian company’s annual logistics contract review. The contract is for national distribution to the UK’s major print houses. Like Holmen, Norske Skog’s products are brought into the UK from its Scandinavian manufacturing sites through Sheerness Docks.
The third contract is with RPC Promens – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of plastic packaging products for the FMCG sector and part of the RPC Group. Following a competitive tender, Downton’s contract has been renewed on a three year deal worth over £4m.
The contract sees Downton handling all logistics operations out of RPC Promens’ UK manufacturing hub in Deeside. In addition to managing the movement of products out to customers across the UK, Downton has a team permanently based at Deeside and is also now running the on-site shunting operation.
