Transit packaging specialist Linpac Allibert is resizing its Winsford facility in Cheshire with the loss of up to 19 jobs.

Linpac Allibert has entered a 30-day consultation with trade union officials and staff representatives and a spokesmansaid the potential redundancies represented approximately 7% of the site's workforce.

"We greatly regret any redundancies but it has become necessary to resize the organisation in keeping with the demand for our type of products in a recessionary market," he said. 

"We have sought, and will continue to seek, voluntary redundancies to reduce the impact of compulsory job losses."

Last month, Linpac Allibert fired the latest salvo in the debate between plastic returnable transit packaging and the corrugated equivalent when it measured the carbon footprint of its Maxinest tray.

Allibert is one of the four division that make up Linpac Group whose former private equity owner Montagu sold the firm to a consortium of its lenders last year.

The lenders have now appointed Bank of America Merrill Lynch to develop a plan to get best value for the business that could potentially lead to it being broken up and sold.