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Cloth covers it ….

Cloth covers it …. Columbia Finishing Mills, Inc A short story……. Located in Cornwall Ontario since 1965 in its 28,000 square foot building, and a proud member of the LBI/HBI for more than 32 years. Started as a cloth coating mill Transformed cotton fabric to elegant cover materials

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Cloth covers it ….

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  1. Cloth covers it….

  2. Columbia Finishing Mills, IncA short story……

  3. Located in Cornwall Ontario since 1965 in its 28,000 square foot building, and a proud member of the LBI/HBI for more than 32 years

  4. Started as a cloth coating mill • Transformed cotton fabric to elegant cover materials • Processes included dying, sizing, starch coating, pyroxylin coating,(colour and clear), calendering, and embossing • Various finishes included natural uncoated surfaces, coated surfaces to imitate leather, and coated linen and vellum finishes • Coated papers of various calipers with different embossing patterns

  5. Changes • A decline in the market requirements • Computer technology gradually replaced the need for encyclopedias • Printed covers which replaced the more expensive coated cloth and coated papers created a need to make changes at our Canadian operation. • In 1992, under new management, Columbia Finishing Mills became a converting operation

  6. Current services and equipment • Emboss cloth and some paper products in three embossing patterns, levant, morocco, and skiver

  7. Slitting and rerolling of master rolls.

  8. Sheeting • Albert Jalbert with 45 years of service

  9. Cutting and squaring • Gary Day an employee with 44 years of service

  10. Rerolling and inspecting

  11. Strengths • Location • Large inventory of a variety of cover materials and bindery supplies • Plant employees are cross-trained to operate all machines • Bilingual staff • Current staff of 10 employees with an average of 18 years of service, which was a 24-year average 6 months ago

  12. Book cloth in today’s marketa brief history…. • In the mid 19th century, starch coated bookcloth became the main replacement to leather • Eventually pyroxylin was used as a more resilient coating and later replaced by acrylic coatings for environmental reasons • Buckram continues to be the primary material used by the Library Bookbinders • B grade cloths • C grade Imitation leathers • Uncoated cloth (paper supported rayon fabrics, starch back coated cloth) • 100% cotton, polyblend, rayon

  13. Reasons to use cloth • Added value • Elegance • Touch • Strength • Longevity

  14. Ecology • Traditionally cloth cover materials were either coated with starch or pyroxylin • Very few products are pyroxylin coated, they are now acrylic coated making them environmentally friendly • Cotton is an annually renewable resource • Many cotton based products are biodegradable

  15. End uses • Archival material • Art books • Bibles • CD cases • Coffee table books • Cosmetic boxes • Diaries

  16. End uses • Hotel directories • Menus and wine lists • Passports • Photo books • Promotional tools

  17. End uses • Legal books • Library binding • Ring binders • Sample cases • Slipcases • Trade books • Yearbooks

  18. Decorating methods • Foil stamping • Blind embossing • Screen printing • Offset printing • Digital printing

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