UK: Process Industry - Best Factory - Arjo Wiggins Fine Paper.

Sponsor - Acacia Technologies.

Not for the first time, one of Britain's best factories turns out to be located on a site steeped in history - a salutary reminder that greenfield sites and wholesale dislocation are not necessarily the only route to manufacturing excellence.

'Actual physical evidence of papermaking on the site only goes back to 1770,' apologises John Gaunt, manager of Arjo Wiggins' Buckland paper mill in Dover. Documentary evidence, however, apparently dates the start of papermaking on the site at some point in the 16th century.