Finishing - Material Handling

Direct marketer Valpak's new $220 million production and distribution facility in Florida is a hub of technology and automated materials handling.

Printing Impressions' Bindery & Finishing News for May 2009

PB-15 revolutionizes paper drilling with automatic feeding, jogging, drilling and delivery of products all at speeds up to 1,500 piles per hour on products ranging from:

*Loose-leaf, spiral & wire-o manuals
*Perfect bound books & stitched products
*Mechanical bound books with 2:1, 3:1, 4:1 and 5:5 patterns

Features include, easy touch screen programming, automated paper formats, cooling and lubricating, all at speeds 5-8 times faster than current methods!

ANDOVER, MA—October 20, 2008—Standard Finishing Systems will show a comprehensive portfolio of Standard Hunkeler unwinding, cutting, stacking and rewinding solutions in partnership with leading continuous-feed digital print suppliers – including InfoPrint Solutions Company, Kodak, Océ, Screen and Xerox – throughout the hall at Graph Expo. These various solutions are tailored to meet the application requirements of the commercial print, print on demand, book publishing, transactional printing, and direct mail industries.

ANDOVER, MA—October 14, 2008—Under the theme “Think Intelligent Automation,” Standard Finishing Systems will showcase a broad range of highly automated post press, paper handling and inserting solutions at Graph Expo, Oct. 26 – 29 in Chicago.

Printing Impressions' Bindery News for Commercial Printing Industry for October 2008

TSK Names HBSI as U.S. Distributor PLAINFIELD, IN—TSK (Tokyo Shuppan Machinery) and TSK America announce the appointment of Hines Bindery Systems (HBSI), based here, as the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor of TSK’s line of perfect binders, gathering machines, tipping systems and three-knife trimmers. The firm’s “flagship” adhesive binders are the TMA-18, TMA-21 and TMA-24, rated at up to 10,000 books per hour. TSK also provides proprietary sensors, monitors and quality-control devices for its gatherers and binders, and for retrofitting to existing systems. According to TSK officials, HBSI was selected as the company’s exclusive distributor in the United States and Canada due to its

MARIETTA, GA—08/17/08—Rima-System will present its newest product offerings at booth 3075 at the upcoming Graph Expo from October 26-29. With more than 9,000 stackers sold and hundreds of system installations worldwide, RIMASYSTEM has established itself as a leading supplier of postpress equipment. The product line includes conveying, trimming, lift stacking, log stacking and palletizing and ranges from single delivery applications to completely automated systems. “We‘re looking forward to Graph Expo 2008 as one of the most important exhibitions for our company” says Mark Legac, Vice President, Sales & Marketing of Rima-System in North America ,“especially in light of the significant growth we’ve seen

BOGOGNO, ITALY—As August 1st, 2008, all Rima-System Project Centres now sell, service & support on a exclusive basis all Civiemme log stacking solutions. Having two of the world leading postpress technologies under one roof will be a great opportunity for all customers. On one side you will have access to optimized solutions for every application and at the same time the service and support through your local Dealer and your Rima-System Project Centre will make sure that you exploit your presses the best possible way. This new and exciting situation has become possible by founding Civiemme-System, a new Italian company which is part of

TRUTH BE known, while many of you make a handsome living in the printing and associated services sectors, you hate paper. And that’s OK, for you have good reason to feel that way. Paper can be pretty annoying. It’s pricey, for one, accounting for a lion’s share of total costs. It is a space hog; between the real estate it consumes and the cost, many would prefer to have the least amount necessary in inventory. Web rolls are bulky and awkward...ever get your foot pinched by one? People have even been killed by runaway webs. Perhaps worst of all, paper gets wasted. Even with