12 jobs for axe as firm closes

About a dozen jobs are set to be axed with the closure of the former Ronmar Plastics business in Wolverhampton.

The company says that it "has been supplying a declining market".

The current owners, plastics company Distrupol, says it is switching its colour compounding business to another company, Matrix Plastics, in Slough.

The Ronmar factory, in Marston Road, had been operating as Distrupol Colour.

From the site it has supplied high-quality coloured engineering thermoplastic materials.

But Distrupol spokesman Gerry Moore said today: "The business has been supplying a declining market because of changes in the way plastics are coloured.

"The Wolverhampton operation has been losing money for a couple of years.

"Staff and management have taken steps to reduce costs but, economically, we cannot justify keeping the business going."

One member of staff is transferring to Distrupol's warehouse site in Neachells Lane but about a dozen will lose their jobs in the closure.

The business is thought to have been started in the late 1950s by Ronald Beere, who named it Ronmar after himself and wife Margaret.