February 2004: Our Capabilities for 2004

Eckhart and Company has added Perfect Binding! Our new Kolbus 20 pocket, 6000 an hour perfect binding line now gives you more options to meet your ever changing book binding needs.

As we enter 2004 new projects and opportunities await you and your business. At Eckhart & Company we look forward to serving your book binding and information packaging needs throughout this new year. Our diverse services range from case binding to turned-edge construction and everything in between. Together we will make 2004 a productive year.

Book Binding and Finishing

Perfect Binding

Wire-O Binding
- Four machines, including two Bielomatik automatic binding lines with
in-line punching
- Up to 1 1/4” loop diameter

Spiral Binding
- Four fully- and semi-automatic machines
- From 1/8” to 1 7/8” 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
- 20 pocket collating
- Signature and single sheet fed gathering station with 16 pockets
- 15 bin single sheet collator

Case Binding
- Kolbus Compact 2000 SC with auto book feeder
- Two Smyth 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

Scoring
Shrink Wrapping
Drilling
Round Cornering

Information and Multimedia Packaging

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
- Foil stamping press

Heat Sealing
- Six RF 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

And Much More!

Back Issues:

• April 2004  Turn Your Mechanically Bound Book Into a Display Piece

• March 2004  Large Diameter Spiral Wire Binding

• February 2004  Perfect Binding

• January 2004  Our Capabilities

• December 2003  Turned Edge Advantages

• November 2003  Semi-Concealed Wire-O

• October 2003  The Advantages of UV Coating

• September 2003  Mechanical Binding Inserts

• August 2003  The Advantages of Prototypes

• July 2003  Calendars

• June 2003  Index Tabbing

• May 2003  Plastic Comb Binding

• April 2003  Mechanical Binding Options

• March 2003  News From BookTech

• February 2003  Plastic Spiral Binding

• January 2003  Serving Our Customers

• December 2002  Wire-O Covers

• November, 2002 Spiral Wire Production

• October, 2002 Wire-O Binding

• September, 2002 Mechanical Binding Basics

• August, 2002 Cased-In Wire-O