Spiel Associates Celebrates 45 years at PRINT and GRAPH EXPO
1969 was an exciting year for New York: Woodstock, The Mets first World Series championship, and it was the first year that Spiel Associates exhibited at GRAPH EXPO.
1969 was an exciting year for New York: Woodstock, The Mets first World Series championship, and it was the first year that Spiel Associates (Booth 3536) exhibited at GRAPH EXPO. The company’s founder, Norton Spiel, reserved a booth at The New York Coliseum. That building has been razed and is now the site of Time Warner corporate headquarters. GRAPH EXPO, and PRINT, have permanently moved to Chicago. Some of you may recall that these shows used to alternate between New York and Chicago. GRAPH EXPO East alternated between Philadelphia and Chicago for its last two years in the nineties.
At that first show, Spiel Associates demonstrated The Sterling Tipper. Since then Spiel Associates has introduced a wide variety of equipment to the American market: Lhermite, Herzog & Hyman, Rilecart, Ziegler & Herzinger, Bourg, as well as their own line of Sterling® bindery equipment.
In this past year alone, Spiel Associates has introduced: Its new perfect binder, The Sterling Digibinder Plus, A new calendar attachment for their Sterling Punchmaster, and an automatic cover flipper for the fastest wire binder in the world, The Rilecart B-599.
“Printers doing work for Shutterfly called us for a solution for their calendar production problem. We developed an attachment for The Sterling Punchmaster® that punched the hanger hole simultaneously with the wire-o holes at the opposite end of the sheet. This allowed them to punch their large runs in one pass instead of two. Since all their calendars are one offs, this staved off a lot of paper handling headaches. We went from the idea to a full production model in under three months,” says Saul Spiel. Spiel Associates has since installed five of these machines.
“The labor squeeze that has plagued Europe for decades has raised its ugly head here in America,” declares David Spiel. “We installed the first automatic cover flipper for a fully automatic wire binder in The US. This is a big labor saver and you can see it operate in our booth.”
“Our most popular machine, The Sterling Digibinder® perfect binder just got better,” states Michael Spiel. “It now sports vacuum waste removal and extra heavy duty roughing. Also, with our new iglue®, digital printers can perfect bind coated stock, even if it is oil infused or uses waxed based ink.”
Of course, Spiel Associates has previewed every generation’s leap forward in automatic plastic coil binding. They have showcased The Sterling Coilmaster, the first functioning automatic coil binder, The Sterling Coilmaster II, the first automatic binder with coil forming in-line, and The Coilmaster Jr., the first automatic table top coil binder.
What else will they be demonstrating in this, their 50h year in business? The only way to find out is by paying a visit to their booth. Special refreshments will be served.
