Horizon VAC-1000
Liverpool trade finisher Thomas Loughlin (Liverpool) Ltd is hoping its latest investment in two Horizon VAC-1000 collating towers will help it continue its 8% year on year growth. The addition of the two towers, with a Horizon ST-40 deep pile stacker was made to enhance its portfolio of services and streamline production. The towers are helping with the collation of calendars for wire binding as well. Explains managing director Tony Aspey:
Workflow is much smoother now so throughput is faster. We can now criss-cross collate which makes a huge difference to one of our monthly 5,000 long-run jobs. There are 80 leaves and so with 20 bins that is four passes. But now we can criss-cross them it is much easier and faster to find the unit. We had two existing towers but they were more than 10 years old so it was time to upgrade them. We were very happy with them so chose their current replacement. We know and trust Horizon and the new towers have enabled us to expand our capabilities. We have grown 8% year on year for the past two years and with interest in our miniature portfolio and matchbox books growing we think this will continue. Having installed the latest in collating technology can only support us further in our growth.
