Books Bound for Greatness

GP2 Technologies Inc.
Solution: SC-2 Autocase
Features: A semi-automatic casemaker designed for generating standard edition or library corners. It is designed to enable switching between the two styles with the touch of a button.
Solution: EC-3 Autocase
Features: Designed for running all types of case-made or turned-edge products. Its “corner tucking option” is designed to automatically and accurately tuck the cover material during casemaking.
Solution: AC-20 Autocase
Features: Designed to automatically produce hard covers in runs of 100 to several thousand or more. It’s fully automated, requires nearly zero makeready time, and produces up to 20 covers per minute with a single operator, according to the manufacturer.
Solution: LC-10 Autocase
Features: Designed to automatically produce hard covers with library corners for short-run and on-demand case-bound books at a rate of up to 10 covers per minute. Its two sets of dies are designed to enable covers to be accurately positioned and folded.
Book manufacturing customers include: Edwards Brothers Inc.
Contact: 603.226.0336, www.GP2Tech.com

Heidelberg USA
Solution: Eurobind 500/500A
Features: Single-clamp perfect binders designed to be ideal for runs of up to 5,000. Binding glue is applied from form rollers that control the glue length—from 4.72 inches to 17.32 inches—at speeds of up to 500 cycles per hour. A central console controls device functions and features a pre-heating timer for the glue tank, a copy counter, production data display and an error-reporting system. For the Eurobind 500, format changes are done manually, while the 500A model enables automated format changing.
Solution: Eurobind 1200
Features: A four-clamp adhesive binder manually loaded with book blocks consisting of individual books or signatures. The solution’s sensor system is designed to ensure precise block feeding, and an integrated jogger aligns book blocks before the clamps are pneumatically closed. It features a conveyor and a four-station pile delivery station for finished books.
Book manufacturing customers include: Not available for publication.
Contact: 888-472-9655, www.HeidelbergUSA.com