Cloth covers it….. Columbia Finishing Mills, Inc A short story……
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Cloth covers it….
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Columbia Finishing Mills, IncA short story……
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• Located in Cornwall Ontario since 1965 in its 28,000 square foot building, and a proud member of the LBI/HBI for more than 32 years
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• Started as a cloth coating mill• Transformed cotton fabric to elegant cover
materials • Processes included dying, sizing, starch coating,
pyroxylin coating,(colour and clear), calendering, and embossing
• Various finishes included natural uncoated surfaces, coated surfaces to imitate leather, and coated linen and vellum finishes
• Coated papers of various calipers with different embossing patterns
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Changes
• A decline in the market requirements• Computer technology gradually replaced the
need for encyclopedias• Printed covers which replaced the more
expensive coated cloth and coated papers created a need to make changes at our Canadian operation.
• In 1992, under new management, Columbia Finishing Mills became a converting operation
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Current services and equipment
• Emboss cloth and some paper products in three embossing patterns, levant, morocco, and skiver
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• Slitting and rerolling of master rolls.
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• Sheeting• Albert Jalbert
with 45 years of service
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• Cutting and squaring
• Gary Day an employee with 44 years of service
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• Rerolling and inspecting
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Strengths
• Location• Large inventory of a variety of cover
materials and bindery supplies• Plant employees are cross-trained to
operate all machines• Bilingual staff• Current staff of 10 employees with an
average of 18 years of service, which was a 24-year average 6 months ago
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Book cloth in today’s marketa brief history….
• In the mid 19th century, starch coated bookcloth became the main replacement to leather
• Eventually pyroxylin was used as a more resilient coating and later replaced by acrylic coatings for environmental reasons
• Buckram continues to be the primary material used by the Library Bookbinders
• B grade cloths • C grade Imitation leathers• Uncoated cloth (paper supported rayon fabrics, starch
back coated cloth) • 100% cotton, polyblend, rayon
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Reasons to use cloth
• Added value
• Elegance
• Touch
• Strength
• Longevity
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Ecology
• Traditionally cloth cover materials were either coated with starch or pyroxylin
• Very few products are pyroxylin coated, they are now acrylic coated making them environmentally friendly
• Cotton is an annually renewable resource
• Many cotton based products are biodegradable
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End uses
• Archival material• Art books• Bibles• CD cases• Coffee table books• Cosmetic boxes• Diaries
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End uses
• Hotel directories• Menus and wine lists• Passports• Photo books• Promotional tools
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End uses
• Legal books• Library binding• Ring binders• Sample cases• Slipcases• Trade books• Yearbooks
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Decorating methods
• Foil stamping
• Blind embossing
• Screen printing
• Offset printing
• Digital printing