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otonStar LED, a UK based solid state lighting designer and manufacturer, has harvested bullish revenue for the first half of 2012 with a 50 per cent increase.
According to the company, its revenue rose to £
3
.
82m from £
2
.
54m for the same period in 2011. Gross profit also increased by 62 per cent to £
1
.
51m, when compared to the revenue of the first half of last year, which saw a total of £
0
.
93m being made.
In addition, the company has set up two new facilities in first six months of 2012, with a commercial production plant for ChromaWhite products in Romsey and an LED fixtures manufacturing plant in Wales.
Furthermore,PhotonStar has also completed construction of a new trade facility at a cost of £
1
.
3m, which will support its working capital requirement.
Expectations for the second quarter of 2012 for the company are high, with the Board stating that growth will be “
d
r
iven by the lighting market’
s
transition to LED lighting”
,
and in looking further, seeing “
2
0
13 as a year of significant growth”
.