Lightning Grows in the U.K.

-- Publishers Weekly, 4/15/2008 6:32:00 AM

Lightning Source is expanding its U.K. facilities, jumping from 12,000 square feet of production and distribution space to 60,000 square feet. The new building, Chapter House, is in Milton Keynes and Lightning expects to move into the new plant this summer. The new facility will allow the company to immediately add more print lines and has the capability to house up to 12 print lines, said David Taylor, managing director of Lightning Source UK. “It’s a long-term play,” said Taylor.

Lightning’s U.K. division printed about 2 million units in 2007 and Taylor expects that number to increase by 25% this year. “The new plant gives us many more options,” Taylor said, naming enhanced shipping and distribution services as options that will be available as soon as the plant is up and running. Four color printing for hardcovers should be available by 2009.