Kall Kwik City is expanding its facilities by creating the single biggest Kall Kwik production facility in the country.
It is installing a new Indigo UltraStream, a Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 and HighWater platesetter running Heidelberg-supplied plates at its 380m2 site in London's Spitalfields.
Other kit includes the latest six-colour Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 5000 wide-format printer, an Indigo TurboStream, Canon CLC-1000 and linked Oc copiers.
"Sales are currently 1.8m and we hope to push that well above 2m," said franchise owner Adrian Needlestone. "We're very pleased with the new site - it's on one floor, there's off-street parking and it's a 10-minute walk from the centre of the City".
Needlestone plans to increase staff numbers from 17 to 20, and will increase the hours of operations from a 12-hour day to a 16-hour double shift. "But we're never closed if a major client requests it," he added. Some 80% of work comes from blue-chip clients in the City.
Kall Kwik City's two shopfront operations in Holborn Viaduct and Middlesex Street will service the new production site.
Story by Jo Francis
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