A self-financed 10m investment programme, which also includes a new press hall, a paper warehouse and finishing kit, is now set to conclude with perfect binding kit. The five-unit, 60,000cph double-decker Rotoman joins an existing 16pp Komori web.

Installation of the press in the purpose-built press hall, which had been converted from a paper store, began in late June and production began as scheduled on September 6.

PCP managing director Paul Liggins said that the extra capacity would be filled "by some fairly aggressive selling, which appears to be working at the moment".

He declined to name names, but said that the company had picked up new clients on the back of the investment, although the majority of new work was still for existing clients.

The new press hall has been built so that it can house a third web press, which Liggins expects to install "in the next two to three years".

PCP's bindery is currently installing a Muller Martini Prima six-station saddlestitcher. Liggins said that a perfect binder would "definitely" be installed in 2005, after a building which adjoins the current bindery has been acquired. PCP, based in Telford, Shropshire, has added around 1,000m sq to its premises in the last year, to bring the total to 5,500m sq.

The 250-staff company runs two six-colour Mitsubishi B1 sheetfed presses, a four-high Goss Universal press, and a Wifag press used for newspaper printing. Two employees have joined the company following the expansion.

Story by Josh Brooks