Ashley moves cutting and folding in-house

Ashley House Printing Company has brought its cutting, folding and stitching functions in-house and believes it will save around 10,000 a month.

The Exeter B2 and B3 printer has taken delivery of a Polar 92X guillotine, Stahl­folder T52 and a Stitchmaster ST100-4 saddlestitcher.

It believes it will now be able to get some jobs out a day sooner than previously.

Ashley House has appoin­t­ed new staff to handle both the folding and stitching work, although it is unclear how many as yet.

Rob Otton, who bought the firm two years ago, said: “The first attraction was the Polar because I know you can rely and trust that equipment and I also knew the Stahlfolder would work for us.

“I wasn’t familiar with the stitcher, but I had good recommendations from users.”