Finishing - Conventional

ARCDALE, NC—June 25, 2008—Thomas Baker has joined Vecoplan, LLC as a Project Designer in their Engineering Department. Baker, formerly a Design/Project Manager for a leading manufacturer of equipment used in the rendering, food, and chemical industries, brings 17 years of machinery engineering experience to his new position at Vecoplan. Baker’s responsibilities will include working with Vecoplan’s sales staff in the design and development of individual projects, and then coordinating their manufacture and implementation with production at Vecoplan. “The rapid growth that we’ve experienced, especially in the design of large integrated systems, has made it necessary for us to expand both our facilities and

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—7/2/2008—After much preparation and effort the Drupa show held in Germany May 29 – June 11, 2008 has been and gone for another four years. Despite the current economy across the globe, the show proved to be surprisingly successful and the Kluge booth saw a lot of traffic during the two week event. Much interest was shown in our NEW EHG Series Half-Sheet Press, which boasts a small footprint, operator-friendly controls and make-readies, EZ Load Magazine and Togglebase Hoist System. I think the comment that summed up the press and speaks of all of these advantages, is one that we heard from a

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—06/26/08—The initial conclusions drawn by Bobst Group coming out of Drupa are extremely positive, just as they were in 2004 following the introduction of numerous world firsts. After a record year in 2007, which stood out for its excellent profitability, Bobst Group has demonstrated that it is very well prepared for the coming years with its innovations, machine design, and new Bobst branding. Spread over some 1,200 m2 of stand space, each of the machines on show at Drupa were run in production with a running commentary several times a day. More than 5000 visitors representing about 2300 different enterprises and 108 countries

ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND—June 25, 2008—Drupa 2008 was the most successful exhibition of all time for the Graphic Division of Steinemann Technology AG. For example, the market and technological leader in the field of high-end print finishing sold more than 10 high-performance systems to customers from all over the world during drupa. In addition, the project situation at Steinemann Technology is currently excellent, holding the promise of extremely good follow-up business after the event. That applies not only to the entire product portfolio, but also to the further expansion of the company’s global presence. “drupa was an enormous success for our company, demonstrating once

ARCDALE, NC—June 25, 2008—Vecoplan LLC, a worldwide leader in size reduction technologies, has promoted Brad Goins to the position of Project Engineer. Goins has been with Vecoplan for 10 years and was formerly a Project Designer. As Project Engineer, Goins responsibilities will expand beyond project design, to include the engineering of complete size reduction and recycling systems. In addition, he will now become part of the Research and Development Team for New Technologies at Vecoplan. “Over the last decade, Brad has proven to be an invaluable asset as a Project Designer at Vecoplan” states Gary Kolbet, VP of Engineering at Vecoplan,

Spiel Associates Inc. is proud to announce the arrival of Frank Bagrosky to our company. He comes to us with a wealth of bindery equipment knowledge. Frank worked for James Burn for 17 years, first as a machinist, then as an engineer. He then worked for Performance Design Inc. for over 10 years. Frank worked there as an engineer and also in sales. After mastering each department he rose to the position of general manager. His ascent to management from an entry level machine shop job is a true American dream story. We are happy he chose to join us here at Spiel Associates.

DRUPA—May 29, 2008— Spartanics M510 Compact Card Punching System is now available worldwide. The Spartanics M510 is a very low-cost plastic card punching system specifically designed for the requirements of printers, card manufacturers, and others producing small volumes (e.g. 5,000 –86,000/day) of hotel keys, loyalty cards, phone cards, gift cards, membership cards, and other plastic cards in standard CR80 formats. Paul Dirienzo, Spartanics Director of Engineering, says, “This inexpensive plastic card punching system is geared to allow newcomers to take advantage of the highly profitable card manufacturing niches for an initial investment in the 10’s of 1000’s dollars range instead

DÜSSELDORF—GERMANY—May 29, 2008—GBC Commercial Laminating Solutions Group, part of ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE: ABD) and world market leader in print finishing equipment and consumables, is exhibiting their range of thermal laminating solutions for commercial, on-demand and wide-format finishing at drupa 2008. Explore! GBC’s new frontiers in print finishing at drupa 2008 With this year’s drupa promising to be the biggest-ever in the fair’s history, GBC is planning a memorable show. During live demonstrations, GBC will present their equipment and consumables for a variety of printing processes and applications. “Customers visiting drupa will be able to explore GBC’s new frontiers in print

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY— 29/05/2008—On the first day of drupa, Duplo is unveiling further new additional products on its stand: the fully automatic and user-friendly Ultra 205A UV Coater; the DuWrap, a polywrapping unit for the mail fulfilment market and a new friction fed collating range including the DFC-100 and DFC-120 Mini Collator. Visitors have the opportunity to experience technology previews as well as a range of other new products and innovative modular finishing configurations which will allow printers to introduce sophisticated value-added finishing processes to their customer offerings. In addition to the UV Coater and DuWrap product, visitors to the exhibition

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY— 5-19-08—Construction of the Muller Martini drupa booth has started on schedule. The drupa show begins May 29, 2008 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here are a few statistics to underscore what a huge effort the construction team will be making over the next three weeks in order to: • Lay 24,757 square feet of flooring for the machine line-up; • Lay almost 7,535 square feet of flooring on two levels for the visitor area; • Drive no fewer than 60 tractor-trailers to Düsseldorf in order to transport Muller Martini’s machines to the exhibition center; • Drive another 6 trucks with construction material for