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Greetings card printers, Cambria and The Sherwood Press,
have been awarded fi rst place and Highly Commended in the
Overload
environment award for businesses with 100 employees and under
at the recent BPIF excellence awards.
With the trend
For Sherwood, this national recognition follows three years of
for production
progress and continual environmental improvement that began in
returning to the
2006 with the attainment of Sherwood’s ISO 14001 accreditation.
UK from China
Jeremy Bacon, Managing Director of the Nottingham based
and Eastern
print group said, ‘this award is a testament to the dedication and
Europe, specialist
hard work of everyone within the company. We strive continually to
print companies
challenge our environmental targets, from year on year increases in recycling to making sure we
are keen to show
reduce energy wastage and maintain our carbon neutral status.’
they have the
‘We also enjoy being involved with local and national projects that embrace the same
experience, training and, above all, the passion for theirand abo e all the passion for their
environmental ideals as ourselves. Working together over the last 12 months with organisations
craft.
such as Nottingham in Bloom (pictured) and ‘Trees for Life’.
One such outfi t Overload Print Assembly & Packing
is poised to fulfi l the demands of card companies for
commercial and creative print fi nishing.
Two of the Overload team, Barrie and Steve, were
NEW 2009 Price List from Fedrigoni
apprenticed at the Oxford University Press learning both
mechanised and hand bookbinding amongst many other
Fedrigoni has designed its latest price list to make it as user friendly
skills.
as possible with detailed range and price information for the full range
They both joined Burgess & Son in Abingdon (at
of Fedrigoni products.
different times) and over a number of years helped
Fedrigoni’s entire product portfolio is set out in an alphabetical
develop and transform the business from an award
reference source and features an easy-to-use Matrix in the fi rst
winning fi ne art and journal printer to the biggest private
section of the price list. This allows customers to source the correct
greetings card printer in Europe. The bindery department
materials by way of applications such as: Bookbinding, Coated,
was extensive with all the necessary specialist equipment
Uncoated, Pearlised and Coloured for instance.
e.g. Guillotines to cope with complicated multiple cuts,
The price list included products such as the New Ispira, Freelife
card folders with crease or cut score, insert tippers,
family, Symbol, Sirio and Splendorgel ranges. Technical and
platens for foiling or embossing and fl o-wrapping
environmental information is also highlighted with full and detailed
machines.
explanations and guidance.
Shortly after Burgess was sold to the Wace Group
For a copy of the Fedrigoni 2009 Price List please contact
and Barrie was made redundant as bindery manager,
Fedrigoni UK on 0845 071 4408 or e-mail info@fedrigoni.co.uk
he set up Overload with his wife Vesna. They grew their
experience and turnover by doing all the hand assembly
and packing of greetings cards, which Burgess could not
cope with.
They recruited and trained home workers, up to 90 at
their peak, but the minimum wage forced an immediate
Sound move for Hallmark
increase of 46% on the wages bill. They had to raise their
prices to cover some of this but every year the minimum
According to The Engineer magazine, Hallmark is investigating cutting edge military technology for its range
wage went up, they attracted less work. In 2000
of audio cards.
Burgess, then owned by Bezier, closed down making
The move comes after UK researchers began developing techniques for printing metal structures
150 workers redundant.
directly onto fabrics and other materials. This could lead to soldiers’ uniforms being printed with wearable
Overload was at risk of also closing but Barrie and
antennae in battlefi eld situations.
Vesna were not quitters and with some good planning,
The benefi t for card companies could be the ability to print directly onto paper using conductive inks
a lot of nerve and a bit of luck, they set up a second
that would reduce the need for wiring inside the body of the card.
unit with mechanised greetings card fi nishing and hand
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picked seven ex Burgess bindery staff. They continued
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to grow and slowly gained a healthy list of customers. In
2005 Overload moved to a larger unit where they could
combine the machine and handwork departments, which
created greater effi ciency and better team spirit.
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ABL offers flitter solution
Gradually over the years, more publishers have sent
their orders to China and Poland, and more printers have
ABL Foil Limited acquired the machinery and technical staff of Acetate Benders last year and absorbed
bought their own fi nishing equipment to keep the work
the former business into its own service to major publishers.
‘in house’. At the same time
With its 30 years experience of the greeting card industry, ABL is now focusing its attention on offering
Overload has been building on its commercial
other printers and publishers a solution for many of the fi nishes currently in vogue.
fi nishing services with foiling, embossing, die-cutting,
“If you’re printing B1, say 12 up, you may only want to fl itter three or fi ve designs so its far more
thermography, folding, shrink wrapping, drilling, padding,
eetingstoday
economic to have these done in singles than run the B1 $ through a large format fl itter press,” says David
hand work and now Perfect Binding and Wire-o Binding.
Jiggins of ABL. “Also you may want them in different colours, which is impossible on a B1 or B2 sheet.
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“Instead, cut-to-size, pre-creased or scored cards can be run through in singles at ABL and then folded
Tel: 01235 554040
by hand worker’s, which saves contamination of the guillotine and factory from glitter dust.”
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