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Beverage
Beverage
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Food
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Household & Industrial
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Personal Care
Pharma
Pharmaceutical

History

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HISTORY

  • 1963 - UCP originally established as UG Key Plastics.
  • 1965 - UCP becomes a division of United Glass (Closures & Plastics) owned 50/50 by    United Distillers and Owens-Illinois.
  • 1985 - Guinness purchases United Distillers and UCP becomes part of the Guinness Group known today as Diageo.
  • 1987 - UCP is sold to Metal Box.
  • 1989 - Metal Box merges with Carnaud Metal Box (CMB) and UCP becomes part of the Bottles & Speciality Closures division.
  • 1991 - CMB acquires Massmould.
  • 1993 - CMB purchases Zeller Plastik, a privately-owned company specialising in hinged dispensing closure production and mould-making technology.
  • 1996 - Crown Cork & Seal purchases CMB to become the largest packaging company in the world.
  • 1996 - the Zeller Plastik UK plant at Corby, Northants is closed and the entire operation is moved to the Norwich factory where Zeller Plastik UK now operates alongside UCP.
  • 2005 - PAI Partners acquired the Speciality and Beverage closure businesses from Crown and Global Closure Systems (GCS) was formed.



Manufacturing in 26 production sites throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, GCS serves markets in more than 100 separate countries and produce over 30 billion closures annually.

Within the UK, GCS has three operations involved in the manufacture of speciality injection moulded closures and, with a portfolio of over 250 moulding machines, this represents by far the largest injection moulding closure business in the UK today.  UCP in Bridge of Allan serves the wine and spirits market, Massmould focuses on beverage and household customers and is entirely complementary to UCP & Zeller Plastik UK in Norwich, which specialise in child resistant, dispensing and tamper-evident systems.