The Stevenage, Hertfordshire-based business has taken delivery of a Kolbus BF512 automatic case binding line and a Kolbus DA260 Casemaker.
According to Gerald White, managing director of Berforts, the 84-staff company has been "very successful" in the short-run space and felt it was time to invest to boost capacity.
He said: "We've experienced a significant increase in demand for the short-run digitally-printed books we produce.
"10 years ago, the average run was close to 10,000; now that figure is closer to 1,500. That is a digital sweet spot and the new Kolbus setup will allow us to cater for that."
The company's latest investment coincides with the launch of a web-to-print offering, Bookselect, which was launched at the London Book Fair earlier this month.
According to the company, Bookselect is being pitched towards publishers that require books from a single copy up to 10,000 copies.
Berforts has sites in Stevenage and a litho division in Hastings. It operates a raft of digital print equipment including nine Kodak Digimaster mono sheetfed printers, a Nipson Varypress 200 mono web and three Konica C6500 colour sheetfed machines.
The company has clients that include Sweet and Maxwell, Elsevier, Brooklands Books, Thompson Reuters and Pearson Education.
Berforts targets digital 'sweet spot' with Kolbus case-binding spend
Berforts has responded to growing demand for short-run, casebound books after investing more than 500,000 in a Kolbus case-binding system.
