Trade Finishers' Strategies — Binding Matters

Like Seaboard Bindery, Rickard Bindery also purchases top-of-the-line new equipment, but there's one difference. Fast turnaround times on jobs with millions of pieces requires a lot of equipment redundancy. "We want to have multiple ways of running most jobs, so we can turnaround large volumes of work on a dime," reveals Vice President of Operations Kevin Rickard. "Among our recent purchases was a fifth saddle-stitching line, a tenth map-folding machine, an automatic shrink-wrapping line and a third plow-folding and gluing machine."