Creel Printing: Betting on Growth

To help accommodate the bevy of new (and large) iron, Creel Printing acquired a 15-acre site and constructed a new facility from the ground up that can be expanded up to 450,000 square feet. The new plant allowed the printer to consolidate its operations—which had burgeoned into seven buildings—and gain efficiencies while leveraging lean manufacturing principles. The old headquarters is now home to Creel Printing's newspaper printing operations, and press lines at Creel's Costa Mesa, CA, facility were brought over to the new building. Sales, prepress and digital operations will be maintained at the old Creel Printing of California.