BOOKBINDERS ADD TRIMMER TO PUR BINDING LINE
01 Feb 2011

Duplo PUR binding customers, Bookbinders of London, have purchased a Challenge CMT-130 book trimmer to further automate their perfect binding line.

The North London based binders, who have reported a 200% increase in revenue since the acquisition of their DPB-500 PUR perfect binder in 2009, have seen demand grow from all corners of their business and looked to become even more efficient with their turnaround times.

The company are seen as the 'go to' company for thesis binding in London, and have expanded their services to include an online photo book service, specialist trade binding for local printers, high-end London agency business and are due to launch a new school yearbook web to print offering in early 2011.

"The PUR binder has become the heart beat of our operation. When we purchased that product it was all about peace of mind and quality of product, we are now looking at our efficiencies." Explains Managing Director, Ian Bailey.

"In order to finish a quality bound book, you need accurate pre trim, quality bind and a final trim operation to finish the book off. The trimming aspect can become quite labour intense and puts a hell of a lot of pressure on our guillotine operator."

The decision for Bookbinders of London was to either purchase another guillotine and employ a new operator to eradicate the pressure in their processes, or look toward an offline auto book trimmer.

"We knew Duplo were launching their relationship and new product with Challenge at IPEX and we were eager to see how the machine compared with the binder. We were very impressed with the build of the Challenge, it seemed like a 'production' level machine (with heavy duty hoppers) plus it needed less babysitting than other machines out there with loading and unloading being far easier." Comments Ian.

"Of course our relationship with Duplo was a major factor. They have been true partners with the integration of the binder into our business, and their trainers and engineers know our business well. That was important to us."

Duplo launched their relationship with Challenge at IPEX 2010, selling the CMT-130 and CMT-330 to compliment their existing hotmelt and PUR perfect binder range.

And the team at Bookbinders have been very impressed at the early stages with their new CMT-130.

"It has made us far more automated. Our guillotine operator has been freed up, and it has allowed us to be more flexible and responsive to our customers. Costs are also down as we have less labour involved in each job and no need for costly overtime, which was common when time pressures became too much."

"Also, rather than work being backed up on the guillotine to be finished, the books are moving more freely through the bindery and we can turn around PUR books 'while you wait'."

The CMT-130 is a single knife auto book trimmer, with 99 job program memories and with the ability to be able to finish multiple books in the same pass; with productivity of up to 500 finished books per hour. Size changing is less than 10 seconds with no tools involved and can trim up to 60mm thick books. Duplo's DPB-500 PUR binder compliments the Challenge with a 30 second set up, with no tools, controlling everything (including the PUR) from one control panel, with production up to 525 cycles per hour.

Ian concludes "The Challenge Trimmer is the type of product we will look back at one day and say 'how did we cope without it?'. I think the PUR binder and the Trimmer are part of the same family, I don't understand anyone that would consider purchasing a PUR binder without a matching auto book knife trimmer such as this; you need it to fully maximise your investment."



Contact: Peter Jolly
UK Marketing Manager

Telephone: +44(0) 1372 468 131
Direct: +44(0) 1372 478 279
Email: pjolly@duplointernational.com


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