Quick moves fill paper cup gap in market

Printing company boss Terry Fox picked up a throwaway idea in 2007 and began making disposable paper cups. This year his quick turnaround products will be available on the US market, writes Trish Dromey.

Billed as the fastest paper cup manufacturer in the world, Co Clare company Cupprint is planning to take on the US, a mega-sized market which uses billions of disposable cups every year.

The only paper cup manufacturing company in Ireland, it was set up in the depths of recession in 2009 when Cupprint founder and managing director Terry Fox identified a gap in the market for fast turnaround, bespoke paper cups in small and medium-sized quantities.