Most recession-blighted manufacturers worry that their next order is likely to be for mothballs. Not so Scotland's whisky makers: they are busy bringing old distilleries back to life and building new ones. The reason is not that the British are drowning their economic sorrows; it is that exports of single malts are booming.rn"We were producing 6m litres a year," says David Cox, a director of the Macallan Distillery, whose whisky is the third-best-selling malt (by volume) in overseas markets. But on the wooded bluff overlooking the River Spey where Macallan has been made since 1824, stills disused since the 1980s have been brought back into use and two vast warehouses have sprouted. New capacity is adding some 2m litres a year, says Mr Cox, and land has been earmarked for still more expansion.
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