Trade Finishers' Strategies — Binding Matters

Frank Shear, Seaboard's president, acknowledges readily that his company is a niche player serving the bookbinding needs of printers in the Northeast. Seaboard Bindery offers non-core services, such as folding, cutting, drilling and laminating, to support the company's bookbinding niche. The company will occasionally convert fold-only or laminate-only jobs, but this type of non-core business is not aggressively sought out.