Big Bindery Upgrade Puts 1940s Folder to Rest

The main departments in the company that use the in-plant are the marketing department, corporate communications and the NW Natural Appliance Center (the company sells gas appliances from a store in southeast Portland).

Another of the recent purchases, the System 3500 bookletmaker, also makes Hendrick beam because it is such a vast improvement over the previous equipment, which “would make booklets as long at they were the same size [11x17˝],” he says. “You also had to feed it by hand, one book at a time.”