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Who remembers the canning factory?

November 15, 2023 Leave a Comment

Exterior Impress Packaging as its future lay in doubt in 2004. Originally built as American Can in 1969 on the former railway marshalling yards, it mainly provided cans for the petfood industry. Pechiney can-making factory, Springfield Road, in 1995 with Colin Potter operative. It had several names as it changed ownership. The last were Pechiney and finally closed as Impress in 2006.
Exterior Impress Packaging as its future lay in doubt in 2004. Originally built as American Can in 1969 on the former railway marshalling yards, it mainly provided cans for the petfood industry. It had several names as it changed ownership. The last were Pechiney and finally closed as Impress in 2006.

Filed Under: 2000s, Grantham-Past, Industry

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