170 jobs to go at printing firm

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One hundred and seventy workers have been made redundant at a Flintshire commercial printing company.

Graphoprint, which prints glossy magazines and catalogues, has gone into administration because of financial problems.

Accountant KPMG said it was hoping to find a buyer for the business.

The company laid off the workers on Tuesday, but 20 are being kept on. Ten staff at its Milton Keynes head office have also been made redundant.

A spokeswoman for KPMG's Manchester office said it was called into the factory on the Deeside Industrial Estate on Friday.

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The spokeswoman said: "They're helping us to work through outstanding orders and they'll also be assisting us in our efforts to find a buyer."

Paul Flint, one of the KPMG team called in to handle the administration, said: "We are working with customers and suppliers while we assess the situation and seek a purchaser for the business.

"However, we are extremely keen to hear from any other parties who may be interested in buying the business."

A small team of people have been retained to assist the administrators in fulfilling outstanding deliveries, he added.

North Wales Liberal Democrat AM Eleanor Burnham is to ask an urgent question about the job losses at the assembly on Wednesday.

The Deeside plant was virtually destroyed in a fire in April 2005, but a new state-of-the-art works was opened last year.

The company which prints brochures and catalogues was set up in 1984 with manufacturing based in Flintshire, and its head office in Milton Keynes.