TLG adds third Palamides stacker

The Lettershop Group (TLG) has installed its third Palamides Beta stacker, part of a drive to minimise the labour needed to operate its finishing lines.

"Now we can have two people on the end of lines, before that it was up to four," said TLG technical director Simon Cooper.

The firm uses all three of its Betas, which can handle product formats from 80x120mm to 420x450mm, offline to handle its direct mail products either one- or two-up.

The firm opted for the Palamides, supplied by UK agent Friedheim International, partly because of its non-marking.

"Also from a perspective of shape handling, not all of our work has square edges and the Palamides can cope with our wide variety of shaped products," said Cooper.

The 110,000 Beta spend was part of the firm's 4m investment that included its second 16pp Scheffer offline web finishing system.