At drupa 24, Bindwel, a manufacturer and supplier of bookbinding machines, will present a spectrum of innovations that will create the future of bookbinding. The offered range provides flexibility to the customer to help her or him select between one book or many books, personalization or standardization or the freedom of having both in one equipment. There is ‘Insta’, which offers books in demand solutions; ‘Freedom’, which is a choice in book formats, lots and runs; and Ekam, the many books model.
Bindwel Insta – One book at a time
According to the company, Bindwel Insta is the right answer to books on demand. Every book can be a different book, with a different cover. It can capture the job information from the workflow and get ready to change from one job to another, on the run. Insta can also read a QR code and/or use a book measurement device to set the machine seamlessly ready for job changeovers. The integrity of the cover with the book block is maintained, and the wrong cover is ejected. Options are provided for trimming the extra width of the covers. It is designed to produce 1,000 books an hour, every book a masterpiece, the company says.
Freedom – Not bound by runs and lots
Then there is Bindwel Freedom, which stands for the ultimate freedom in book formats, lots, and runs. “Be it a pocket diary or landscaped brochure, be it one copy or tens or hundreds of thousands, the Freedom 2K and 5K models of perfect binders can change over from one to another in under 1 minute… We can connect a gatherer, book block feeder, and trimmer inline to Freedom binders,” Pallippuram Sajith, managing director, Bindwel and Stelda said.
The Freedom 2K Mini-Bindlines are ideally suitable for the production of very short runs (five copies) to medium runs (,5000 copies). The Freedom 5K centered Bindlines can stretch to very long runs, yet have the capability for quick turn-around.
Ekam – Shaping the future of bookbinding
According to the company, Ekam mimics the production philosophy in the FMCG arena by showcasing a system that is designed for a specific, yet popular “standard range” of book formats. This promises to drive down machine complexity while enhancing automation. Based on the principles of lean manufacturing, Ekam optimizes space requirements by 50%, and machine parts by 15%, and helps bring down energy consumption and cost of maintenance.
“Textbooks printed in most parts of the world have formats that come within the range of a few centimeters in difference of length and width. Ekam is built on a simple, yet powerful idea: Standardization. By focusing on the core formats you bind most, the production costs are brought down significantly.”
Kai Buentemeyer, director of Bindwel, told Indian Printer and Publisher, “In Drupa 2024 Bindwel’s theme is ‘Spectrum of innovation creating the future of bookbinding’. We will present three concepts — (a) Insta, the one book model; (b) Ekam, the “many books” model, which will redefine how textbooks are produced in the future and (c) Freedom, which gives you the ultimate freedom of book formats, lots and runs. My experience says that the customers for all these three segments are different. In each case, we are providing a customized solution for a specific business model.”
