Manufacturing firms to create multiple new jobs following merger

Two plastic manufacturing companies will be going on a recruitment drive following their merger, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

The Omega Group has been formed by Blyth and Hartlepool-based Omega Plastics and Washington’s Signal Plastics. The expanded company is projected to turnover more than £9m in 2016 and headcount is set to rise from 80 to more than 100 across the three sites.

Omega Plastics was formed in 2006 and was originally based at Team Valley in Gateshead. In 2007 the company moved into the purpose built 10,000 sq ft factory in Blyth that it retains today. Five years later it opened a second 10,000 sq ft facility in Hartlepool.

Since its launch in 2007, Signal Plastics has moved three times into increasingly larger premises. In January 2016 the business will move to a 42,000 sq ft facility in Washington.

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