American-Made Stacker/Bundler Gaining Popularity in North America YORK, PA—IMC America (sales agent for Penn Graphics) has announced three new installations in North America for the PGE300 semi-automatic stacker/bundler: Hi-Liter Graphics, in Burlington, WI; McCormick-Armstrong, Wichita, KS; and Cenveo MM&T in Toronto. The machine is an American-made stacker/bundler designed for production on today’s high-speed web presses. Back-to-Back Bobst Installations NILES, IL—Just three months after installing its first Bobst SPanthera 106-LER Autoplaten diecutter (with in-line blanking), Graphic Technologies added another. Reportedly the second largest trade finisher in the country, Graphic Technologies offers a full complement of capabilities, including folding, folding-gluing, laminating, kitting, in-house tool production
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WHAT IS this strange-looking thing? Bob Geier wondered aloud, when a customer stopped by (circa 1987) and handed him a small, round piece of plastic. “I’d never seen anything like it before,” recalls Geier, owner of Farmingdale, NY-based Mid Island Bindery. “The customer said it was a compact disc, and that it was going to be huge someday. “That was a milestone year for us,” Geier notes. “We worked hard with our customer to produce the books that accompanied every compact disc at greater speeds then they were currently being produced and hold all the specifications required by the final assembler.” Mid Island produced
HAMBURG/DÜSSELDORF—February 11, 2008—At drupa 2008, the most important and worldwide the largest fair for the printing and paper converting industries, Körber PaperLink (KPL) will be present on 1,200 sqm in Hall 11, Stand B62 / C62. For the first time all paper companies of the group, including E.C.H. Will, Pemco (with the brands SHM and Wrapmatic), Kugler-Womako and Winkler+Dünnebier, will be assembled together under the same roof. They will share a stand with common corporate design to demonstrate the integration of Winkler+Dünnebier within the Körber PaperLink Group. For 14 days Körber PaperLink will showcase its unique system solutions for paper sheeting, converting and packaging.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could produce perfect letterpress style creasing on your folding machine that solved your cracking problems forever?
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PITTSBURGH— October 12, 2007—The Binding Industries Association (BIA) announced today its 2008 Product of Excellence Awards Call for Entries. From around the world, companies submit their best work to be judged against that of their peers. It’s time to see if your company has what it takes to reach the highest pinnacle in the industry—the Product of Excellence Award (POE). Winning this prestigious award assures that the industry recognizes your achievement, and that your colleagues, executives, customers, and partners know that your work is “the best of the best.” “Many new opportunities were achieved by my company after winning a POE; we had increased name recognition
ARCDALE, NC—September 17, 2007—Vecoplan, the worldwide leader in size reduction technology, dedicated their newly expanded headquarters at a grand opening on Saturday, September 15, 2007 in Archdale, NC. Tours of the enlarged, 60,000 square foot facility were conducted during the event. A contingent of officials from Germany joined Vecoplan employees and vendors, in the celebration. According to Len Beusse, COO of Vecoplan, LLC “the decision to expand our building was driven by the continually increasing demand for our shredders and systems, especially our systems. Over the last 5 years we’ve had more and more customers that come to us for a total waste
STUTTGART, GERMANY—September 12th, 2007—The German based GRAFIX GmbH announces the acquisition of ConTemp GmbH, a leading manufacturer of chilling and fountain solution systems. ConTemp has been producing a high quality product for sheetfed offset presses for the last 10 years. Until now GRAFIX has offered anti-offset spraying systems including powder extraction and drying systems. Drying systems include UV, IR and hot air. “The acquisition of ConTemp strengthens GRAFIX as a whole provider for the printing industry.” says GRAFIX CEO Hans-Georg Platsch. GRAFIX LP located in Chicago, Illinois, is part of the large GRAFIX worldwide service net and offers a 24/7
It seems that nobody wants to talk about the bindery. . .except perhaps the many NPES member companies that manufacture and market these solutions to the printing industry. After all, the bindery just isn’t sexy like the pressroom or prepress departments. Talk is one thing, but action is more important. Are printers investing in new bindery and finishing technology? If not, why not? After all, many people claim that the bottleneck in the print workflow is the bindery. Nothing goes out the door and gets billed until it’s cut, folded, perffed, diecut, foil stamped, embossed, stitched or bound, stuffed or mailed or shipped to
