Palm Paper yesterday (20 November) received planning permission for a £330m newsprint manufacturing plant from King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council.
The site is expected to produce around 550,000 tonnes of newsprint per year and create 150 direct jobs and 150 indirect jobs.
Palm Paper managing director Derek Harman said that one machine will start up in 2009 with the option for a second if market conditions are right.
In September, Harman said that the privately owned German firm was in the first stages of recruiting its key management for the site.
Paper rivals are also planning new UK mills include Ecco Newsprint in Teesside and Aylesford Newsprint, but it is understood that Palm Paper's plant is now likely to be the first project to go ahead.
Merseyside-based AbitibiBowater, Kent-based Aylesford and UPM Shotton in north Wales are the current recycled newsprint mills in the UK.
Source: printweek
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