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Houchen Bindery Limited
Houchen Bindery is a library bindery. The company offers a variety of binding products. Periodicals are bound to customer specifications regarding collating, trimming, rounding, cover color, lettering color, lettering alignment, leaf attachment and turn-around time. Library binding is done with traditional Class A binding that incorporates double fan leaf attachment, rounding units, trimmed edges and up to five lines of lettering on covers. Lamijac is a Class A binding that laminates the dust jacket. Color 4ever services are four-color photocopies of original covers. Picture Perfect services involve the creation of new cover graphics for a book with a damaged or plain cover. Theses are bound to Library Binding Institute specifications. The company also provides special binding services, such as autopsy/pathology reports, computer printouts and school reports. It also provides restoration services, edition binding and textbook restoration. Houchen Bindery has headquarters in Utica, Neb., with other divisions located in Bossier City, La., and St. Louis.
