
January 2003: Serving Our Customers
At Eckhart & Company, we take
pride in offering our customers solutions that help them win more business. Over
the years, weve kept our promises to customers by continually expanding our
range of capabilities. Although we now provide a full range of services under
one roof, we like to think of ourselves as one company that specializes in three
main areas of production:
Our bookbinding and print
finishing services represent our longest-standing capabilities. We
specialize in highly-automated mechanical binding production, including Wire-O,
plastic spiral and spiral wire binding styles.
Our loose-leaf manufacturing
services are ideal for products such as ring binders, pad holders, index tabs
and more. These products are quite different than what you find in an office
supply store. Ring binders can be decorated and customized with screen printing,
foil stamping and other processes.
Turned-edge construction is
our third area of focus. This is a process used in the manufacture of ring
binders, boxes, slip and slant cases and more. Our extensive turned-edge
capabilities enable us to create higher-end multimedia packaging that holds much
more than just paper. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs, floppy diskettes, video and
audio cassettes and perfect-bound books are just a few of the items we can
package.
The Eckhart
Advantage
We specialize in combining processes
from our three focus areas to create unique, customized binding and information
packaging solutions. For example, a cased-in Wire-O-bound book will pass through
binding (gathering, trimming, punching and binding) and turned-edge (casemaking,
final assembly) processes. To ensure that production of your projects goes
smoothly, we assign product engineering specialists to each job. Theyre
responsible for guiding your project from the pre-production planning stage
through the manufacturing and shipping processes.

OUR
CAPABILITIES
Bookbinding
and Print Finishing
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Wire-O
Binding
Four machines,
including two Bielomatik automatic binding lines
Up to 1 1/4 loop
diameter
In-line punching
Spiral
Binding
Four fully- and
semi-automatic machines
From 1/8 to 1
3/4 book bulks
Plastic
Spiral Binding
Three semi-automatic
machines
Bielomatik automatic
binding line with in-line punching
Plastic
Binding
Three semi-automatic
and six manually-fed machines
Gathering
Three machines
Up to 16 stations |
Case
Binding
Kolbus Compact 2000
SC with auto book feeder
Two Smythe sewing
machines
Automatic endsheet
tipping
Folding
Four folders (up to
26)
Trimming
Three- and
four-knife trimming
Computerized
cutting up to 42
Punching
Three automatic
machines
Maximum sheet size:
20 x 20
Scoring
Shrink
Wrapping
And
Much More!
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Information
and Multimedia Packaging
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Material
Preparation for Binders
Vinyl, cloth and
board slitting
Vinyl and cloth
sheeting
Round cornering
Cutting (up to 59
1/2)
Punching
Decoration
Two Sakurai cylinder
screen printing presses (up to 28 x 40)
Computerized color
control system with spectrophotometer
Flat bed screen
printing press
In-line S.P.E., UV
curing
Stamping press
Heat
Sealing
Six Heat sealing
presses (up to 15 kw) |
Turned-Edge
Construction
Two Kolbus casemakers,
one with round corner attachment
Three automatic
gluers with vacuum belts
Three hand-fed gluers
Three rotary presses
(wringers)
Spotting
Wrapping
Semi-automatic
slipcase manufacturing
Two thumb notch
cutters
Pony LabelRite
mounting machine
Index
Tabbing
Four index tabbing
machines, including a Scott Ten Thousand automatic tab cutting and
laminating machine
Riveting
Three machines, two
double-head and one single-head |
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