The product enables users to turn guillotines into low-cost creasing devices using a magnetised creasing block, which is attached to the clamp of the guillotine.
“I’ve been chasing Polar for about two to three years. I met the company's managing director Markus Rall at Ipex in March and he said that he loved the product and wanted exclusive rights to it,” said the product’s inventor Craig Collins.
“The deal has started already and Polar is currently introducing the product to its customers step by step.”
Guillo-Crease is sold in packs costing around £200 to £250, which Polar-Mohr will offer alongside its guillotines or separately as a consumable.
Each pack contains the magnetic strip upper section and one, two, three or all four of the available lower sections, depending on the thickness of the substrate that needs creasing.
The 1.5mm option is suitable for the majority of creasing jobs while any specialised creasing can be covered by the larger sizes of 2.5mm, 3.5mm and 4.5mm.
Senior product marketing & PR manager at Polar-Mohr Matthias Langer said: "It's a great opportunity for us to give an additional benefit to our guillotines, whether they're old or new machines.
"It's attractive for customers who have some creasing work but don't have the need to buy a separate machine. It also gives smaller businesses the opportunity to offer an additional benefit to their customers and add to their product portfolio."
Collins invented the product in 2011 when he was working as a guillotine operator. “I invented it because all of the creasing solutions we had in the workplace couldn’t crease materials above a certain weight,” he said.
“With this I can crease anything from 300gsm card, which is the average business card thickness, right up to a 2,000mic laminated folder, which is about as thick as a ring binder.”
He established Guillo-Crease as a company in 2013 after he perfected the product from his original prototype and applied for the patent. It is currently patent pending but already fully patented in Brazil and South Africa.
“There’s nothing else like it on the market. If you can’t afford to spend £6,000 on a creasing machine, you can spend around £200 on this and have a crease that is every bit as good if not better,” said Collins.
