Herben, who founded the company in 1975, says the company enjoyed good success at the show, selling most of the machines on its stand, but he would have like it to run longer. He says, “It’s a pity the exhibition didn’t run on Saturday as well as we know quite a few people who would have travelled interstate to be there and then enjoyed the rest of the weekend in Sydney.”

Herben sells a range of numbering, perforating and creasing machines. It sold four Graphic Whizard machines at the show. Wim Herben says, “No one else in the southern hemisphere does what we do in terms of the variety and types of small machines we supply to the industry. We supply the kinds of machines that companies don’t know they need until it’s too late, all the weird stuff. We represent a large range of specialty overseas manufacturers for numbering, perforating, slitting, scoring, security cheque encoding, credit card encoding, currency numbering, passport numbering, postage stamp perforating and more. We also take orders for machines that need to be created or modified.”

The company also sold perforating machines and took orders from further afield. Herben says, “We also supply security perforations, not only for date coding but also for government departments that need secure printing. We don’t only supply locally, but also to the islands and New Zealand.”

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