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Special Report - Binding & Laminating

FINISHING

MOVES

BOSS finds that a declining UK cut
office paper market does not mean
the end for document finishing
products.

e all should while many other sectors of
be aware that the print finishing market may
Wstructural demand not be growing in value terms
for cut paper in the UK is in at present, the same could not
decline year on year, but how be said for binding: “People
is this trend affecting the believe that demand for print is
market for products used to falling, and we know that paper
finish printed documents in demand is falling, but where
the home, school or office? print is surviving, it is where it is
Since not all printed documents trying to draw more out of how
are bound or laminated, do the finished document looks,
such applications represent a and that feeds very nicely into
“protected species”? laminating and binding. Users
are thinking more and more
In A Bind? about what happens when
Peter Jolly, Managing Director people take documents out of
of £11.5m print finishing the delivery tray.”
machine specialist Duplo UK, Jolly’s point of course is
believes that the overall office that while many hard copy
machines sector in the UK is documents have migrated
worth about £30m and that the online or into electronic media
office binder market is worth (eg meeting minutes, which
as much as £3-6 million at may now probably rarely be
end-user prices. Add to that the printed), some documents
binding consumables market – such as business proposals
which can be worth anything are still almost always printed,
between an additional 10% and and have to work really hard to
50% of a binder manufacturer’s stand out. In such cases, “Just
sales – and the whole sector clipping a staple to the top left
begins to look very interesting of a document is seen as lazy,
indeed. whereas if it is nicely bound, it
Jolly firmly believes that will be noticed.”

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