A motivated team

Although we have automated many parts of the production process, many parts remains pure hand craft. Our team consists of motivated people, each of whom are specialists for several stages of the process and can hence work on different kind of activities. They give utmost attention to your materials, and they consider your sample presentation to reflect their own involvement.

After selecting and unpacking the material, each piece gets a sticker mentioning all details required for the further process. In this way, many projects can run at the same time, without materials getting mixed-up.

The rolls are first cut to plain sheets, which furthers the running speed of our machines considerably.

These gross sheets are then cut to full, semi-full, border or cutback pages. Fabrics can get a serrated finish if required to avoid loose ends.

The sheets receive a print on the back, or a printed sticker or paper framework, mentioning the article number, collection name etc, and are cut to final size.

Several home workers glue the borders and cutback sizes on the page below.

Our office-based account managers also arrange

all printing material which you want the presentation to include, such as interior and close-up photos.

Sheets and photo pages are combined to sets, which are nailed to a block, to which a cover is attached.

At several stages of this manufacturing process, checks are made to ensure the quality levels set for

the entire series.

An important part of the finished product is the way in which it is packed. Because the presentations are sent all over the world, the package must be of certain quality to make sure the presentations arrive in good shape in, say, San Francisco or Moscow. An individual

carton box will generally avoid that the presentation gets damaged. For warehouse purposes, using an individual box has the further advantage of having room for placing a sticker whith the collection name, series quantity, and a series number, which makes that each box can be identified i.e. traced easily. Boxes can of course be printed with your logo or other corporate identity elements to create a better look than plain grey or white carton. Additionally, inside the carton or on the product itself, we can add any promotional gift you like to draw more attention to it. When opening the box, this gift will certainly surprise the addressee. 

Trucks come and go .....

The presentations we manufacture find their way to destinations all over the world.

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Innovation

At Books Holland, we consider innovation to be our daily concern. Since producing sample presentations is highly specialised work, our technical people have built several unique

machines and have automated/integrated several other standard machines.

One example is our  sidecapping machine. Until recently, side caps were fitted to the blocks by hand. With our new machine, we have automated this provcess and have thereby reduced costs considerably and also created time benefits.

Non-woven wallcoverings take over ever greater market shares, but this kind of material is very hard to gather by a machine. Hence, many collections nowadays must be gathered by hand. We are working hard to create a machine which can handle non-wovens.

The production of fabric collection presentations is in good hands with Books Holland.

For manufacturing fabric presentations, we can use many of the techniques which we apply for wallpaper but also add several other techniques, such as

cutting from the roll, making serrated finishes, hot-sealing and glueing fabrics on paper cards or frameworks.

The rolls are first cut to coupons (sheets).

Afterwards, the fabrics receive a machine-made serrated finish.

Then, nett-sized fabric pages are created.

Fabric cards and frameworks get a glue layer, machine-applied. 

Glueing can also be made by hand, which for some collections is actually necessary due to differing page sizes. The fabrics as attached to the card or framework are collected and put in order by machine or otherwise by hand, depending on whether the machine can handle the fabric material, and nailed to a block.

Cutback pages combined with interior photos make it possible to present a collection per room.

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Sending preparations

We use Europallets or disposable pallets and pack according to the maximum height as ordered by you. 

Other materials handled and transferred to presentation products

We can handle many other materials than wallpaper and interior fabrics. Examples are fashion textiles, window films, giftwrap paper, and of course printed sheets. Since such materials require by nature another way of presenting them, the Books team is fit to find the right concept for you and your target group. Our machines and people offer various possibilities, even for handling difficult materials like those which wrinkle easily, like super-thin foils and films. 

For SunTek/CTC Europe, who manufacture/distribute car window films, we produced the swatch as shown on the left.

We produce swatches in various shapes. Swatches are perfectly suited for showing colours and qualities of many flat materials.