Pyramid Packaging and Finishing Services was founded by Bob Field and Tom McBride, Spectrum Flairs former bindery supervisor and bindery manager.

Based on the Moulton Park Industrial Estate, Pyramid offers a range of finishing and packaging services, such as ream wrapping, folding, shrink wrapping, ram bundling and hand finishing.

Clients include paper merchant Robert Horne and local print firms such as Eclipse Colour Print in Kettering.

"Weve got a reasonable customer base within three to four weeks," Field said. "You probably couldnt go into a printer within a 15- to 20-mile radius of Northampton who didnt know one of us," he added.

Pyramid will focus on the print business for the time being, Field said, and is hoping to expand its services with the installation of a guillotine and folder/gluing equipment. In time it will expand into markets such as food packaging.

All 11 of the staff now at Pyramid were made redundant by Spectrum Flair, which went into receivership in January and was subsequently bought by Watfords Print Factory.

Story by Lauretta Roberts