The company was established in January this year and began producing work with the aid of a rebuilt Col-Tec 6/12 station Duplex A3/A4 collator.

Workload at the Croydon-based business has increased in the first six months of trading, prompting the need for a bigger machine, as well as an extra factory unit.

Ideal Finishing is using the machine to produce wire- and spiral-bound books with a large number of calendars making up the bulk of the work.

The company, which was started by Paul Forrester and Chris Carden, recently installed a Mobi 500 from Buhrs (PrintWeek, 9 July).