Finishing & Screen Printing

We’ll Corporation Enters a New Market Segment

Tuesday 14. February 2017 - We’ll Corporation in Ishikawa is getting a Finishing 4.0 solution.

The Japanese company is entering a new market segment – the production of teaching materials – with the aid of a Muller Martini print finishing system consisting of a 42-inch SigmaLine with a SigmaFolder II, a SigmaCollator and SigmaControl and an Alegro Digital perfect binder with a Solit three-knife trimmer. We’ll Corporation, which specializes in direct mail and flyers in the commercial printing segment and uses several web printing presses, has not focused until now on the production of softcover books. As a result, the Ishikawa-based company, which was founded in 1979 and is a subsidiary of WELLCO Holdings Co. Ltd., currently only has a small perfect binder with a performance of around 150 cycles per hour. That, however, is set to change from 1 April onwards, when We’ll Corporation, which employs some 500 people at five different plants, will turn book production into one of its core business segments. For that purpose, the company has invested in two digital printing presses from HP (first in a T230 and then in a T490), as well as in a Muller Martini SigmaLine book production system consisting of a 42-inch SigmaLine with a SigmaFolder II (up to 16 pages), a SigmaCollator and SigmaControl, and an Alegro Digital perfect binder with a Solit three-knife trimmer as a supplementary near-line solution.