Book Producer Buys Complete Production Line

UK trade book manufacturer Hunter and Foulis has purchased the first complete Kolbus 30 cycles per minute book production line to be installed in the country.

UK trade book manufacturer Hunter and Foulis has purchased the first complete Kolbus 30 cycles per minute book production line to be installed in the country.

It comprises a Kolbus BF 511 casing in-line linked with a Sigloch BBL back gluing system, Kolbus HP 130 trimmer and Kolbus SU651 jacket wrapper.

The principal benefits will be quicker turn-around times and increased flexibility.

With the ability to endpaper in line it will also benefit customers who prefer to supply sewn blocks, said Kolbus.

Along with the increased productivity comes an increase upon Hunter and Foulis's specialist A4 landscape format books to 305mm (foredge) and an increase in maximum bulk from 60mm to 80mm.

With the market becoming more focused on shorter runs and lead times the in-line system is seen as the way forward by Hunter and Foulis.

Of the new installation Hunter and Foulis managing director, Andrew Montgomery, said: "At Hunter and Foulis we recognise the ever changing market and focus on producing something just a little bit different.

The new line offers all that with the new range of sizes and extents available.

Along with our great experience in design we can bring any customer's project to life." Montgomery added that more clients are producing cased products, as opposed to wire stitched or limp bound.

He explained: "Cased binding provides a less disposable image, giving a quality product clients will want to receive and.

more importantly, want to keep." The new line also enables Hunter and Foulis to offer a wider range of sizes and extents: from 100mm x 70mm to 370mm x 305mm and bulks from 2mm to 80mm.

Before the final buying decision was made tests were carried out on a demonstration production line at Kolbus in Rahden (Germany).

Robert Flather, Kolbus UK's managing director, said: "Probably the most impressive fact to come out of the trials was that the line produced first class quality products, whilst comfortably running at maximum production speed.

This was when testing both the biggest product size possible and also the smallest".

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