Aycliffe Today Business #11 | Page 12

12 | Aycliffe Today Business DOUBLING UP SUCCESS AT TTP One of Aycliffe’s success stories has recently relocated to 70,000 sq ft premises to manufacture and distribute corrugated packaging to customers across the country… By Jonathan Ward Doubling capacity has become something of a habit for Tyne Tees Packaging (TTP). The business was founded in 1982 when Managing Director Gerard Wiper set up a 5,000 sq ft operation in Newton Aycliffe, followed a few years later by a move to premises twice that size. TTP has since become one of the largest independent manufacturers of corrugated packaging in the North East, with a £7 .5million turnover producing display and retail packaging for end users as diverse as gift boxes for Debenhams and Echo Falls, to Sky Sports and Disney. Skip forward 28 years and TTP has relocated again, but not far, staying close to its original base on the Heighington Lane Business Park. Its new 70,000 sq ft facility also boasts investment in the latest machinery which will allow the business