CPI & SPA call on MPs to support UK manufacturing

2 March 2010

The Confederation of Paper Industries and the Sheet Plant Association have united with one voice, on behalf of the corrugated packaging industry, to engage in a pre and post election drive, urging MPs to encourage the healthy growth of manufacturing in the UK.

The campaign takes the form of a mailer, made from corrugated, that will drop on the desks of MPs and other opinion formers during the first couple of weeks in March. Advertisements will also run in House Magazine, the weekly publication read by MPs and Peers. The mailing will be repeated after the election to ensure everyone in the new parliament has seen it.

The central message is that decline in UK manufacturing is not inevitable and that policy-makers need to create more advantageous conditions for investment. The industry's thoughts are detailed in its Manifesto for Manufacturing which can be read at http://www.paper.org.uk/manifesto

Naturally proud of its own investment record, and the ability of corrugated packaging to help companies reduce costs and carbon footprints, the corrugated packaging industry wants to open up its factories to more visits from MPs to show them British manufacturing at its best. Both the advertisement and the mailer provide contact details so MPs can arrange a visit and see for themselves what modern manufacturing is like.

Andy Barnetson, corrugated sector manager of CPI, commented: "The corrugated packaging industry is a particularly good barometer of the pressure that manufacturing is under and we are pleased to stand alongside the Sheet Plant Association on this issue. It is necessary for everyone involved in manufacturing to keep up a sustained lobby to encourage more manufacturing in the UK."

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