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Special Report - Binding & Laminating

“People’s for the education market), then
the High Speed and Performance
expectations at the top end. So our products
are now that tend to differ in terms of size and
speed and end use: our largest
lamination pouch laminator will even go up
to A1.”
will be simple However, it is agreed that
and fast: that’s the growing segment at
the moment is that for A3
what we have laminators, since these will not
only do ID lamination, but also
learned when A5 and A4 and A3. Jolly agrees:

we talk to our “There’s definitely a growth in
A3 laminators, which is aligned
consumers.” to the fact that buying an A3
or SRA3 printer is far more
Tim Machin, Acco affordable than it used to be. If learned when we talk to our In the same way that printers
you print out an SRA3 document, consumers, and the innovation have started working quicker,
laminate it, and do some very has focused on that.” End-users laminators are also beginning to
“One of the modest cutting, then you’ve got do not want to spend valuable wake up quicker.” Smith agrees:
time setting thicknesses and
first questions a very high performance-looking temperatures or waiting for the “The two new pouch laminators
document that is very personal,
that we have at the moment are
that we get produced all in-house in less machine to warm up – they the Peak Lite and the Peak Instant:
just want to use their laminator
than an hour.”
the latter offers one minute
nowadays, Getting The Heat On straight away.” So, recent product warmup, which is something
development has tended to
after As with binders, it is clear that be driven by a desire to reduce that people really want. And with
both of them, rather than you
throughput this attention to speed of use is “faffing around” and heat up selecting a speed or temperature
times, as Jolly explains: “One of
very much a focus of innovation
(as a lot of pouch laminators
per hour, at present. Says Machin, the first questions that we get do), you just select the micron
nowadays, after throughput per
is ‘How “People’s expectations are now hour, is “How quickly can it be of the pouch, which is a lot
that lamination will be simple
more straightforward to use. All
quickly can and fast: that’s what we have turned on and start working?” of those switches and buttons
it be turned
on and start
working?”

Peter Jolly, Duplo UK

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