THE C.J. KREHBIEL CO. -- Binding Matters

"We are constantly analyzing our capacities and throughput so we can accurately meet market timing demands," notes Tuck Krehbiel. "Through this analysis and subsequent current technology study, we hooked up with Muller Martini. They provided us with this service right from the top.

"Muller Martini's upper management was involved in our research on automating and refining our perfect-bound products," he adds. "Our marketing research about the future of book publishing agreed—a trend toward more four-color perfect-bound books, with an emphasis on velocity through the plant." C.J. Krehbiel has considerable capacity for 9˝ and 11˝ perfect-bound products.