Ibstock is increasing its UK brick production this year from approximately 1.73bn units to 1.93bn.
An additional 125 million bricks will be produced by Ibstock this year after a £22m redevelopment of a factory in Newcastle-under-Lyme last year and the re-commissioning of a mothballed plant in Leicester.
With other production enhancements at other factories, the company is set to bring to the market almost an additional 200 million bricks in 2014.
Ibstock, a subsidiary of Irish building materials group CRH, closed its Leicester factory in 2008.
