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Bibby & Baron founded; Mr Bibby & Mr Baron begin making paper bags

Bibby & Baron win silver medal at the Paris Exposition for the first automated bag machine

Bibby & Baron reveal a contraption with printing stations around a central drum – the first flexo printing press

Welton Bag Company opens factory in Welton, Somerset

Both companies start manufacturing the then new "polythene"

Welton joins Bibby & Baron to enable the widest possible range of paper bag manufacturing

Opened Welton Bibby & Baron Slovakia

Ongoing investment in state of the art paper bag machinery.