Keeping Binding 'In The Fold'

"All of our binding is automated," says Sedgwick. "We have the capability to do perfect, spiral, saddle stitching, guilding and thumb indexing in-house."

The bindery can also do hard bound edition binding. After book blocks are sewn on automated sewing machines, they go to an automated book line, where they are trimmed, glued and cased into a hard cover. The bindery produces about a half million hard bound books a year, including such items as the Book of Mormon, lesson manuals, specialty books and hymn books.