Printing firm set to double production with £5m investment plan

Print-Leeds has moved premises in the first part of the company’s expansion and £5m investment plan which aims to double its production capability.

The company has moved to a new four acre site in Bramley, half a mile from its original premises in Pudsey.  The new site comprises two 30,000 sq ft units, one of which Print-Leeds will fully occupy by the end of this year.

The office, production facilities and the digital division have already moved to the new site.

The company has ordered a new Heidelberg XL106 7-colour with coater which will give the firm double the production capacity, streamline production, and bring production of wet glue labels, composite tube wraps, litho box laminates and all litho plastics work in-house.

Rod Fisher, managing director of Print-Leeds, said: “It is the wet glue label division that has spearheaded this expansion programme as demand rises for this type of printing.  Despite extending our previous premises when we acquired S&C Labels we have outgrown the building and its production capability.  Tanda Works gives us a lot of options: room for two presses, a newly housed digital division, a specific finishing department, paper storage and we will be able to add a PSL line.  Its exciting times.”

Property consultant Eddisons completed on the sale of Print-Leeds’ old premises and the purchase of the new, with a combined sale price of £2.8m.

Steven Jones, director of agency at Eddisons, said: “We are seeing an escalating demand for quality industrial space in the right location and it was satisfying to be able to assist a local Leeds business in both selling their existing premises and relocating to a great new site.”

He added: “The new Print-Leeds site has two units and the neighbouring Anchor Works on Swinnow Lane will be available for any 30,000 sq ft occupiers looking for freehold or leasehold premises.”