A SOUTH African packaging firm is to create more than 60 jobs in East Kent.

Sharp Interpack, expects to create 67 new jobs and safeguard more than 200 when it expands its business at the Aylesham Industrial Estate

Most of the new jobs will be on the production line.

The company has already invested more than £6 million in the plant during the last year in order to increase efficiency and satisfy demand for its food, medical and cosmetics packaging products.