Coghill Composition Establishes New Facility

Coghill Composition Company, Inc., a high quality book typesetting and graphics company, has constructed a new, 10,000 square foot, state-of-the-art typesetting facility in the Chesterfield County Industrial Airpark. The company is new to Chesterfield County and designed the building to accommodate a larger workforce that will be needed to handle an expected increase in the number of titles typeset annually.

The company, which began operating in Richmond in 1960, was founded by John M. Coghill, Sr. and is now owned and operated by his four sons, John, James, William and Robert. Coghill Composition sets type for printing and publishing companies nationwide.

Using special software designed for rapid electronic pagination of books, and a cottage industry for keying manuscripts and proofreading, Coghill outputs thousands of finished pages daily. Major publishers routinely call on Coghill to produce “instant books” on hot topics. Some recent titles are Death of a Princess; Don’t Tell Dad, by Peter Fonda; and Me and My Shadows, written by Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland.

Numerous titles of the famous and infamous, current events, movie an TV personalities have been completed in recent years. Scholarly text books are regularly produced for prestigious universities all over the country.

Coghill was assisted in their location search by the Chesterfield Department of Economic Development.