One of the new cutters at Deanprint.
The need to upgrade its cutting capabilities at its Cheshire premises has led Deanprint to install two Baumann-Wohlenberg 115 high speed cutters from UK & Ireland agent, Friedheim International.
Operations director Kevin Lee explained: ‘With the large amount of cutting work we undertake we require great reliability and productivity, and a couple of our existing five Polar guillotines were beginning to come to the end of their effective working lives. As a result we looked at what was currently on the market and decided that the Baumann-Wohlenberg cutters offered better value for money in terms of their productivity, and number of applications and programs available.’
The company first began trading in the 1890’s, and has been established at its present purpose-built 50,000 square foot site since 1920. It employs 45 staff, has customers throughout the UK, and offers a comprehensive range of services including printing, folding, trimming, sewing, perfect binding and wiro binding, as well as being capable of manufacturing boxes, slip cases, folders and ring binders.
A key element in the decision to buy the Baumann-Wohlenberg cutters was the installation last year of a Wohlenberg Quickbinder perfect binder and Trim-Tec three-knife trimmer (also supplied by Friedheim International). Mr Lee said: ‘With a recent upturn in demand across our key areas of education, general trade finishing and government contracts, the ability to keep in full production is of paramount importance, and by purchasing equipment from an existing supplier this provides continuity in terms of on-going servicing, maintenance and provision of spare parts, and is of great benefit accordingly.’
