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About Clays

Old Typesetting blocks

For over 200 years Clays has been producing some of the most well known and best selling books in the UK, providing an invaluable service to a range of publishing clients.

Strategic Investment

Clays have become a major force in this fluid and evolving world through extensive investment and a determination to react quickly to our customers’ fast moving needs. The result of this is an all round service offering for publishers that encompasses digital services, book manufacture, pre-retail and distribution. Throughout the digital revolution we have remained the UK’s market-leading book production specialist, actively embracing digital printing technology to run alongside our traditional and highly successful quality printing processes.

New Markets​

As the UK’s market-leading book production specialist and the supplier to many leading publishing houses, Clays has taken the next step in their evolution.
1 M
Books

We print an astonishing 150M books every year.

1 K
Orders
Clays processes 50,000
orders per year.
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EMployees

Clays is a major employer with over 700 employees.

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Acres

Our 14 acre site enables production on a massive scale.