The 90m-turnover company has taken on a new 10,700m2 building opposite its existing site. It will house office space and a seminar theatre, but most importantly will allow the company to relocate its bindery to the new facility.

It will really allow us to improve throughput and efficiency and get work off the presses quicker, said chief executive Andrew Dalton. It doubles the size of where we are now we dont need a Howitt superplant, weve already got one.

The expansion plan was a key contributor in Pindars success in securing a massive three-year print contract with Avon, exclusively revealed in PrintWeek last week.

Its certainly the biggest contract by a long way that we have won on the printing side, Dalton added.

Pindar is also retaining an M600 web that was originally earmarked for sale.
It will run alongside its existing webs two new 48pp MAN Roland Lithoman IVs and a Polyman.

The 48s will be extremely busy so the M600 is being retained on a single shift at the moment, and we can increase capacity on that if the need arises, explained Dalton.

The company has already expanded its finishing offering with a new Muller Martini Norm binder that came on-stream this month, and further investment in stitching is also on the cards in the new bindery, said Dalton: We will probably end up doubling our capacity on stitching.

Story by Jo Francis