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Second time around: packaging firm managing director buys Marpak not just once, but twice.

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In 2000, Richard Gibson sold Marpak Polyethylene Supplies, a film extrusion company. He left the company in 2002 when the plastics film operations were sold to Tyco. He has now joined Bill Raddings at Yorpol Packaging and the business has been renamed Marpak Polyethylene Supplies when the name became available in Mar 2004. The company has an extrusion capacity of some 6000 tonne/y and employs 28. It concentrates on shrink wrap film, particularly that ...

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