The Nottingham firm last week installed a John Quinn shrinkwrapping line following a contract win from an unnamed client in the packaging sector.

Jimminsons director Len Jimminson said that the second-hand line, which was built at the firm's Queen's Drive Industrial Estate premises last week, "will be the nucleus of a bigger operation".

The installation at the 40-staff company follows the addition of a secondhand Bobst 102CE B1 die-cutter last September and a machine from German firm Heiber+Schroder which erects burger clams in December.

Jimminson said that the recent raft of investment would help the company to "maintain its position in the market".

"We're trying to broaden our service offering horizontally rather than vertically. There's no point in the current market in just adding the same machine and doing the same thing," he said.