LB Plastics: New factory in the UK
LB Plastics, UK, is expanding its window, door and conservatory production operations in a multi-million pound investment programme with the creation of a new factory at Ambergate, close to its headquarters in Derbyshire. The expansion will initially create 50 jobs when production begins in May. The previously derelict 100-acre Ambergate site was bought by LB’s parent company, the Litchfield Group, last year. The group has completed the refurbishment providing more than 27,500 sq metres of factory and warehouse space. It is now installing a door production and finishing plant ahead of next month’s start-up. In addition to its factories at Nether Heague and Ambergate, the Litchfield Group has UK plant at Knaresborough and manufacturing facilities in Germany, Poland, the US and Australasia. It employs 1,000 people worldwide.