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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
David Laister

240 jobs and huge new factory planned as Paneltex wins huge Volta Trucks contract

A high-growth Hull truck body builder is set to create 240 new jobs and open an additional 140,000 sq ft factory after securing the largest contract in its history.

Paneltex, behind the specialist kit out of thousands of refrigerated supermarket delivery vans, is to work with new electric vehicle brand Volta. It will supply the cargo boxes for the new range as the journey to Net Zero continues at pace.

To meet the demand, the firm is taking on a huge new facility at Newport, complementing the recently added-to city operations, on the back of a record year.

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