PFF Packaging (Sedgefield) Limited (02548722): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2025-10-01
- Administrators' firm
- Interpath Advisory
- Formerly
- Sirap UK Limited; Kama Europe Limited; Demofollow Limited
- Incorporated
- 1990-10-16
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 22220 Manufacture of plastic packing goods
Why it went into administration
- Energy costs
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Weak consumer demand
- Rising costs / inflation
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Group is a family-owned independent manufacturer of plastic food packaging which engages in Extrusion, Thermoforming, Injection Moulding and Decoration & Printing production processes. The Group was founded by Andy and Michelle Bairstow (‘the Bairstows’), who are also the major shareholders of the Group.
The Group includes two trading subsidiaries; PPL, situated in Keighley, was incorporated on 25 September 1991, and PPNEL, situated in Sedgefield, was incorporated on 27 November 2009. It also includes two dormant entities being PPGL (incorporated on 7 August 2006) and PPSL (incorporated on 16 October 1990 and was formerly SIRAP UK Limited (‘SIRAP)).
PPSL is a dormant subsidiary of PPGL, having previously operated as the trading entity of the SIRAP business prior to PPNEL’s acquisition of SIRAP in November 2021. The business and assets of the Company were transferred to PPNEL as a part of a corporate restructuring.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2025-11-13) · Companies House register