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The breadth and depth of the capacity of the finishing
department at Hobbs is both vast and comprehensive. One
of our key strategies in this respect has been to ensure
that we can carry out as many operations as possible
within our own plant. The very last thing we want to do
is to outsource anything. Printed material from our
range of Heidelberg and now Komori presses is folded on
one of our FIVE folding systems, each of which is
equipped with blank sheet detectors.
Adhesive binding is carried out on our fully
automated Muller Martini Acoro A5 which is equipped with
scanners on each feeding station to ensure absolute
accuracy during the gathering process. Books are trimmed
in line and delivered ready for bulk dispatch or
delivery to our fulfilment operation.
Thread sewing is carried out on our high speed Muller
Martini Inventa Plus. Saddle-stitched products are
produced on our Muller Martini Bravo Plus stitching
line. This high speed line is also equipped with in line
punching for two or four holes. The ability to fold
products in line after stitching, trimming and hole
punching provides clients with significant savings in
postage costs.
Loose leaf work is often produced on our unique
Muller/Kugler four knife gathering and trimming line.
This line produces loose leaf products that have been
gathered, trimmed on all four edges, drilled and stacked
in one pass. It can also be used for flat stitching
manuals and handbooks – a capability that is becoming
increasingly rare.
Wire-o-bound work is produced on our range of Renz
equipment; this includes the latest AP360 automatic
punch matched with three binding systems.
Products that are printed digitally on our Indigo
5000, Nipson Varypress or Xerox sheetfed engines are
bound on our new Horizon BQ270 automated single clamp
binder, folded trimmed and stitched on our Watkiss
document finishing system or drilled on one of our FOUR
drilling systems. The latest drill installed is the Hang
207-30 fully programmable system built specially to meet
our needs; this system allows multi hole drilling of
runs as low as one to be quickly and efficiently
processed.
In addition to the above, we laminate all covers in
house on our Autobond Mini TH52 thermal laminator
running at up to 7,000 covers per hour. We individually
shrink wrap on one of our two Shanklin shrink wrapping
lines with a capacity of 130 packs per minute and case
bind short run work on our range of Schmedt binding
equipment.
All of this equipment is supported by around 70 staff
that keep the lines running from 6am until 10pm 5 days a
week and into the nights and weekends whenever necessary
to meet customer requirements.
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