English Fine Cottons, a trading arm of Tameside-based engineering textiles manufacturer Culimeta-Saveguard, is investing £4.8million to bring cotton spinning back to the UK.

The company has already placed orders for installation of required equipment as well as begun recruiting staff with an aim to restart cotton spinning in the UK by mid- 2016. English Fine Cottons will base its new production facility in the refurbished Tower Mill at Dukinfield in Tameside. The company will spin some of the most luxurious yarn in the world using the finest raw materials from Barbados, India, USA and Egypt. The yarn will be used to create high-end fashion collections both domestically and globally.

More than 100 new jobs are expected to be created by the project. According to Andy Ogden, General Manager of English Fine Cotton's parent company Culimeta-Saveguard, , there is a strong demand across the world for luxury goods with the 'Made in Britain' stamp, and English Fine Cottons has the pedigree for the job. Our roots are in technical textile manufacturing and we are in the perfect location – able to draw on a local workforce with the necessary skills and expertise.”