The need to upgrade its cutting capabilities at its Cheadle, Cheshire, premises has led Deanprint to install two Baumann-Wohlenberg 115 high speed cutters from UK & Ireland agent, Friedheim International.
Says Operations Director Kevin Lee: “With the large amount of cutting work we undertake we require great reliability and productivity, and a couple of our existing five Polar guillotines were beginning to come to the end of their effective working lives. As a result we looked at what was currently on the market and decided that the Baumann-Wohlenberg cutters offered better value for money in terms of their productivity, and number of applications and programs available.”
Deanprint first began trading in the 1890’s, and has been established at its present purpose-built 50,000 sq ft site since 1920. The company employs 45 staff and offers a comprehensive range of services including printing, folding, trimming, sewing, perfect binding and wiro binding, as well as being capable of manufacturing boxes, slip cases, folders and ring binders. A fleet of vehicles transports finished jobs to customers throughout the UK.
What also helped to influence Deanprint’s decision was the installation last year of a Wohlenberg Quickbinder perfect binder and Trim-Tec three-knife trimmer (also supplied by Friedheim International), as Kevin Lee explains: “With a recent upturn in demand across our key areas of education, general trade finishing and government contracts, the ability to keep in full production is of paramount importance, and by purchasing equipment from an existing supplier this provides continuity in terms of on-going servicing, maintenance and provision of spare parts, and is of great benefit accordingly.”