Facilities

Brookes & Gibson operate from two printing plants. One is located at Southend, Essex and one at Southall, Middlesex. Each plant specializes in particular areas as shown by the infrastructure deployed at each of these plants.  The printing for each product is assigned to one of these plants but a smaller print run for the same product is routinely done at the alternative plant also.

Dual printing operations secure not only availability of capacity but also familiarity of personnel with each product and readiness of equipment and processes in case of an unexpected disaster recovery situation.

Both plants are operated in partnership with specialist printing organizations Formara Limited and Stroma Limited. At each location dedicated plant capacity is exclusively deployed for Brookes & Gibson which is supplemented by additional resources which are available on tap.

B&G Essex print works

The Essex print works are best equipped for (a) large scale lithographic printing (b) custom digital printing (c) real time custom print and collation. The facility is mainly used for the printing of Notices to Mariners and the printing of loose leaf updates and primarily the “Ship Specific Updates”

B&G Middlesex print works

The Middlesex print works are best equipped for (a) large scale digital printing (b) custom digital printing (c) real time custom print and collation. The facility is mainly used for the printing of Tracings and the printing of correction lists and loose leaf Updates.