Surrey, United Kingdom
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Headquarters · Design · Assembly
Surrey, United Kingdom
Our Dormansland headquarters is home to system design, CAD planning, assembly, testing and customer training ahead of delivery.
About Lawhill
Engineering precision since 1979.
A private British engineering company designing, building and supporting complete paper handling systems for the world's security printers.
Who We Are
Complete solutions, designed around each customer's production.
Lawhill Worldwide Limited is part of the Lawhill group of companies and is responsible for all paper handling and related products, manufactured at our headquarters in Surrey, UK, and by our partner Jordan Star in Amman, Jordan.
Manufacture, assembly, testing, installation and after-sales service are all fulfilled within the Lawhill group. Many of our systems for the security printing industry include the mechanical and electrical integration of third-party equipment to meet the exact demands of each project.
Our aim is always to provide a complete solution that exactly matches the customer's requirements, designing bespoke modules, interfaces and add-on devices where necessary, and modifying new or existing equipment to suit.
Every customer has a personal contact at Lawhill who knows their machines and can react quickly and effectively when it matters.
Lawhill workshop, Surrey
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45+
Years of engineering
15
Countries with Lawhill systems
20
Years minimum parts support
2
Manufacturing centres
Our History
Four decades of paper handling innovation.
From a Surrey workshop to systems in production on five continents.
1979
Lawhill is founded
Lawhill is established in Surrey, England, as a private British engineering company, designing and manufacturing machines for a variety of applications.
1983
Fourteen machines for NatWest
A number of major security printing companies commission Lawhill to supply fourteen continuous finishing machines for the production of National Westminster Bank cheque and payment books. Paper handling quickly becomes the major part of the business.
Mid-1980s
The cut sheet revolution
As non-impact cut sheet printers replace continuous stationery, Lawhill develops finishing systems that turn folios printed three, four or five to view into individual booklets.
Early 1990s
The first Cheksafe
The original Cheksafe folio finishing system is introduced. More than thirty years later, early machines are still in daily production.
Worldwide
A worldwide installed base
Lawhill systems are installed for banks and security printers across Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
2018
Remote-ready systems
Every new Lawhill system ships with a dedicated laptop and Ethernet-based control for remote diagnostics and HMI operation.
2020
A fully remote installation
A system built during lockdown is shipped to Ohio, USA, and installed and commissioned entirely via Zoom and TeamViewer.
Today
Engineering the next generation
New specialised systems are in development for EDP and direct marketing, where integrity and security are paramount.
Bespoke Finishing
Modular building blocks, combined around your document.
Alongside Cheksafe, Lawhill designs individual modules and complete lines for general finishing. Built-in modularity means our machines interface readily with other equipment, so integrity can be maintained from the first sheet to the final pack.
In insurance and security print, where 100% verification is the prime objective, we have developed integrity systems that check every document for correct stock, correct order and correct set.
- 01Feeding
- 02Collating
- 03Folding
- 04Verifying
- 05Guillotining
- 06Stitching
- 07Gluing
- 08Taping & binding
- 09Backstripping
- 10Wrapping
- 11Enveloping
- 12Mailsort separation
Facilities
Designed and built by specialist engineering teams.
Amman, Jordan
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Manufacturing · Jordan Star
Amman, Jordan
Lawhill paper handling products are also designed and manufactured by a specialised team of engineers at Jordan Star, where Obaida Matar is Works Manager.
Our People
The engineers behind every machine.
Every Lawhill system is designed, built and commissioned by the same specialist team that supports it.
Workshop floor
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Engineering team
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CAD design office
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System assembly & test
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Selected Clients
Trusted by security printers, insurers and banks.
A selection of the organisations that have relied on Lawhill finishing equipment over the years.
Taylor Communications
Ohio, USA
De La Rue Currency & Security Print
Nairobi, Kenya
De La Rue Smurfit
Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Communisis Security Products
Crewe, Cheshire
Ashton-Potter USA
Buffalo, New York
House of Questa
Byfleet, Surrey
George Waterston & Sons
Edinburgh, Scotland
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
Birkenhead
Zurich Insurance Company
Swindon, Wiltshire
CGNU
Perth, Scotland
Brown Davis & McCorquodale
Johannesburg, South Africa
Exakta
Johannesburg, South Africa
Typocrafters
Harare, Zimbabwe
Digisource UK
Livingston, Scotland
Microgen UK
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Communications In Print
Basildon, Essex
CMC Equipment
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
M.R. Microrite
City of London
Karran Products
Guildford, Surrey
Esparto Digital
Derby
Moorcroft Group
Stockport, Cheshire
Lothian Regional Council
Edinburgh, Scotland
Plymouth City Council
Plymouth, Devon
Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
Rochdale, Lancashire
London Borough of Barnet
Hendon, London
What We Stand For
Built on four principles.
Precision
Registration, stitching and binding that hold tolerance shift after shift, book after book.
Reliability
Machines designed for a twenty-year working life, with original systems still running after three decades.
Technical Expertise
Mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and software engineering all held in-house by specialist teams.
Partnership
From first specification to remote support years later, we stay with every installation.
Let's engineer your next finishing line.
Talk directly to our engineers about your formats, volumes and integration requirements. Every Lawhill system is specified to suit your production.