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Bindomatic AB is a company registered in Sweden and with head office in Stockholm. Bindomatic is the inventor of the Bindomatic binding system consisting of machines and supplies for office document binding. Today the company has around 100 employees in its locations in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and United States. ==History== Document binding for offices was introduced during the 50’s by General Binding Corporation. The system uses a machine for punching the document and inserting a plastic or metal spine to hold the sheets . One of the leading manufacturers today for these systems is (Renz ) in Germany. During the early 70’s simple system for hot melt glue binding within the office market started to appear but the market was fragmented, some companies produced the machines and others produced the supplies. Bindomatic was founded in 1974 under the name of Semotex and it started as a supplier within the graphic industry. When Semotex started to import and sell the hot melt systems, the idea came up to introduce hot melt office binding as a system, where both machines and supplies can be purchased from one supplier and where the two parts are tested and proven to work in combination to provide a good final product. After the invention of the Bindomatic System by Sture Wiholm, the company owner, and Jan Sabelström, the technical manager, Semotex more or less turned over to only produce and sell hot melt office binding. The first binding machine was the Bindomatic 2000. During the 80’s Bindomatic were focusing on their desk top products and started up around 50 distributors all around the world, mostly in Europe but also on other continents. During the 90’s Bindomatic made a lot of technical innovations led by their technical director Dr Göran Tolf and especially in corporation with Xerox, in-line binding using thermal covers was developed and put on the market in United States and Europe. The cooperation with Xerox covered many areas during this period, from simple desk top systems sold all over the world to the sophisticated in-line systems, the Xerox DB120. During the 00’s the technical innovations were also introduced with other producers of production printers, like Océ and Canon. Also the world’s first desk top semi-automatic thermal binder was introduced, the Bindomatic 101 DFS. Today the company is again putting main focus on office binding and has since the employment of John Davis, the sales manager in the US operations, developed new procedures for sales and marketing of the products. Also besides the off-line binding machines the company offers, development is done towards automated in-line binding that can be integrated into office printers. The company was sold in 2008 to the Swedish private equity company (Valedo ). Valedo has assisted in putting focus on facts and activities and been an engaged owner of Bindomatic. Since 2008 also the previous sales manager Jörgen Friman became the CEO of the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bindomatic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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