Ultimate Kelmscott has added PUR binding to its range of trade finishing services after taking delivery of a Eurobind 600 machine from Heidelberg.
Part of the Acors Group, a security printer which generates 80% of its business from abroad.
Malcolm Acors, founder of the Billericay company and a third generation printer, said, ‘This is our first PUR machine although we have a range of hot melt binding machines already. It was bought with a specific contract in mind but we are confident we will generate trade work to fill the capacity. Some jobs where a document will be well handled and the user cannot risk splitting or losing pages require the resilience of the PUR adhesive. There are digital jobs, too, which can only be bound using this gluing method.’
For most work, the company can offer a 24 hour turn around although for small scale work it batches jobs together so a longer lead time is be required. Mr Acors believes that the binder will mainly handle runs from 100 copies up to 25,000 copies although the company does have higher volume binders in place.
‘Throughout the group we like to provide customers with products that will fulfil their ultimate goal. If you buy cheap and it’s not effective in selling your products or in doing the job you intended you will have wasted your money,’ Mr Acors said. The group has many long term contracts, including fulfilment and facilities management services.
