Compact but Highly Felxible

With its newly designed nozzle application system, the Eurobind 1300 PUR ensures even metering of adhesive from block to block. This adhesive binder is also suitable for a wide range of materials, making it ideal for short runs and jobs where top quality is a must.

Long or short runs? Soft or hard covers? Polyurethane or hotmelt adhesive? Anyone planning to buy an adhesive binder needs to know in advance what sort of products it is going to be used for. Peter Wagstyl, Managing Director of the german Color Gruppe in Munich, therefore considered the options carefully before deciding on the Eurobind 1300 PUR. He now knows that he made the right choice. "Thanks to its short setup times and high production speed, the Eurobind 1300 PUR is ideal for runs of anything from 200 to 5,000 copies," says Wagstyl. "But even a run of just ten copies is cost-effective because the adhesive binder's software can change the format in just a few minutes," he adds. This enables Color Gruppe to temporarily interrupt longer runs for short or urgent binding jobs, for example. And because the Eurobind 1300 PUR is in almost continuous operation at the Munich print shop, it doesn't even need to be pre-heated for very short runs.

Productive Fully Equipped Configuration. As a field test customer that helped this four-clamp adhesive binder reach the series production stage, the full-service print shop has a special relationship with the Eurobind 1300 PUR. Color Gruppe now produces soft-cover brochures on the Eurobind 1300 PUR Line. The name says it all - 1300 indicates the machine speed of 1,300 cycles per hour, PUR stands for the polyurethane adhesive applied using the nozzle application system, and Line means that the Eurobind forms part of a complete adhesive binding line that also includes a customized cooling section and the Eurotrim 1000 three-knife trimmer.
Alternatively, the Eurobind 1300 is available with a hotmelt roller application system and as a standalone solution without cooling section or three-knife trimmer. "We were only interested in the PUR model, though," says Wagstyl. "Most of our adhesive binding needs to be extremely durable, so the limited durability of hotmelt adhesive was not an option, even though it is a more economical solution," he explains. The fully equipped configuration boosts productivity and enables even longer runs to be processed cost-effectively at the Munich print shop.

Proportion of In-house Production Increased. Color Gruppe used to outsource adhesive binding work to a number of service providers. At the time, it had no adhesive binder of its own for these jobs. Although the print shop had a very good working relationship with these service providers for the most part, there were sometimes problems with deadlines. The high logistics costs were a further drawback. "It was not uncommon for us to have to transport jobs right across the city in several trucks," recalls Wolfgang Huber, Color Group Managing Director in charge of sheetfed offset and digital printing. "This is no longer necessary and we have increased the proportion of in-house production," he adds.

Reproducible Quality. One special feature of the Eurobind 1300 PUR is the polyurethane nozzle application system driven by a gear pump. "The special premelter enables the system to work virtually independently of viscosity, temperature, and pressure and apply an even, low-viscosity film of adhesive," explains Ronald Groß, Postpress Product Manager at Heidelberg. It is easy to adjust the amount of adhesive for each individual job and this can be reproduced with total accuracy throughout the run. Color Gruppe considers consistently high quality to be particularly important - and not just for adhesive binding. "Anyone placing an order with us today can be sure of the same high quality for a repeat job in six months' time," stresses Wagstyl.

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