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THE
COMPANY
LONGFORD Equipment International Limited was incorporated
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1969. The head office
of the Company is located at 41 Lamont Avenue, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. The Company has a sales presence in
Chicago, Illinois and Glastonbury, Connecticut in the
United States of America. It also has offices in Hasselt,
Belgium and Tenterden, Kent, England, from where it
handles sales and service for all of Europe. It also
transacts a large volume of business through agents
and dealers located worldwide, with installations in
over 65 countries.
The
Company is engaged in the designing, the manufacturing,
and the marketing of high-speed automated paper handling
and packaging machinery, as well as high-speed machinery
for leaflet inserting and other paper dispensing applications.
Original machinery was developed for the greeting card
industry but resulted in increasing applications to
other segments of the graphic arts industry such as
collating of high volume paper products and cards including
bank-cheques, floppy disks, booklets, lottery tickets,
recipe cards, and materials used to produce trade catalogues.
As a result, the Company caters to a diverse spectrum
of industries. In 1988, the Company realized the potential
of the plastic card processing industry and developed
several systems which are used in the post-process of
verification and mailing of credit cards, drivers licences,
and other similar applications. These systems are marketed
through an affiliated Company, On
Serts Systems Inc.
CORPORATE
STRATEGY
The
Company's primary products now incorporate a wide range
of system-integrated Dispensers/Feeders, with numerous
design variations modified for applications in industries
that include:
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Inserting of folded or unfolded, wrapped or unwrapped
coupons of virtually any shape and size from roll-stock
to bandolier to pre-cut stacks;
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Feeding of parchment paper, coupons, labels, computer
floppy diskettes, signatures, booklets, backing boards,
envelopes, greeting cards, pouches, etc.;
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Feeding of premiums into, onto or beside periodicals,
cereal boxes, frozen pies or pie shells, bagged candies,
food trays, roll winding units, etc.;
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Collating of trade (sports) cards into pre-selected
packs with computer-controlled systems that interface
and monitor the complete selection and packaging process;
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Complete collating systems, including interface to
poly-overwrap machines, for packaging of literature
(warranty cards, booklets, and direct mail items)
into packages for use in the packaging of appliances
and like applications.
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