Managing director David Clark said the £68,000 kit was installed in the trade finisher’s Corby plant in Northants this April and is predominantly used to strap and stack work from the firm’s three Heidelberg ST 300 stitchers. “Customers increasingly want paper binding rather than plastic strapping, so we bought the machine to get more work. Paper is easier for mailing houses, which just rip it off rather than fuss around cutting plastic.” The Delta 502 was supplied by Friedheim International and has helped Apex Print Finishers speed up a typical A5 two-up job from 17,500 to 18,500 per hour, according to Clark. “Another benefit of the Delta is we can use it with one person: with other kit you need two people to handle each bundle but with this machine, they come out together already with a paper binding, so that eliminates the need to one person.” Clark’s six-staff company has a £500,000 turnover and its services include stitching, inserting, strapping and shrinkwrapping. Clients include Polestar and Prinovis....

The company said that the new distribution deal would help it deliver a “notable improvement” in customer service and allow it to place greater focus on the development of its products. Drytac Europe managing director Hayden Kelley said: “We believe that this partnership will hugely benefit our customer base. Antalis is an extremely well established business with excellent and far-reaching distribution channels. “Customer support levels in the UK and Ireland will be boosted and Drytac can now fully focus its resources on what it does best – namely the manufacturing of quality adhesives and over-laminates.” “Antalis has many of the best account reps in the business and they will be able to provide excellent advice to our customers regarding the right products for the right applications. They will then be able to supply the Drytac products at the right price and deliver them right on time,” he added. The deal is effective immediately and the company confirmed that current prices would not be affected....

Managing director David Clark said the £68,000 kit was installed in the trade finisher’s Corby plant in Northants this April and is predominantly used to strap and stack work from the firm’s three Heidelberg ST 300 stitchers. “Customers increasingly want paper binding rather than plastic strapping, so we bought the machine to get more work. Paper is easier for mailing houses, which just rip it off rather than fuss around cutting plastic.” The Delta 502 was supplied by Friedheim International and has helped Apex Print Finishers speed up a typical A5 two-up job from 17,500 to 18,500 per hour, according to Clark. “Another benefit of the Delta is we can use it with one person: with other kit you need two people to handle each bundle but with this machine, they come out together already with a paper binding, so that eliminates the need to one person.” Clark’s six-staff company has a £500,000 turnover and its services include stitching, inserting, strapping and shrinkwrapping. Clients include Polestar and Prinovis....

As part of a strategy to create a pan-European site the business has down-scaled its UK operations moving its back office services from Milton Keynes to a smaller office in Luton while relocating its demo centre and integration activities to the Netherlands. The company has invested in the refurbishment of its existing facility near Amsterdam to include a new “solutions centre” kitted out with a full range of digital print-on-demand (POD) equipment, as well as a series of meeting rooms. The site will also become Screen’s European spares centre. The new Luton base, which has retained 34 staff, will continue to provide the same sales, helpdesk, spares and support services across the UK. Screen has recruited four new members of staff for its Netherlands operations, to replace UK staff that did not want to relocate. Screen Europe president Brian Filler said that the move reflected the transition of its products from CTP to POD. “In the past we were selling hundreds of units at €100,000 each where we could afford to have multiple demo centres across Europe, but now we sell tens of units at €1.5m it becomes more difficult to keep that value of equipment on the books. It changes the whole structure of what we do.” “No-one really needs to see CTP demos any more and if they do we can just take them to any number of customers that have them, but if someone wants to see a POD device then they need to travel to the European showroom to see it but that is nothing out of the ordinary.”...

As part of a strategy to create a pan-European site the business has down-scaled its UK operations moving its back office services from Milton Keynes to a smaller office in Luton while relocating its demo centre and integration activities to the Netherlands. The company has invested in the refurbishment of its existing facility near Amsterdam to include a new “solutions centre” kitted out with a full range of digital print-on-demand (POD) equipment, as well as a series of meeting rooms. The site will also become Screen’s European spares centre. The new Luton base, which has retained 34 staff, will continue to provide the same sales, helpdesk, spares and support services across the UK. Screen has recruited four new members of staff for its Netherlands operations, to replace UK staff that did not want to relocate. Screen Europe president Brian Filler said that the move reflected the transition of its products from CTP to POD. “In the past we were selling hundreds of units at €100,000 each where we could afford to have multiple demo centres across Europe, but now we sell tens of units at €1.5m it becomes more difficult to keep that value of equipment on the books. It changes the whole structure of what we do.” “No-one really needs to see CTP demos any more and if they do we can just take them to any number of customers that have them, but if someone wants to see a POD device then they need to travel to the European showroom to see it but that is nothing out of the ordinary.”...