Pattern book specialists Pike Textile Display have joined the BBSA, recognising the growing importance of effective samples presentation within our industry sector.

Already market leaders in textile presentation, PTD produce around 200,000 pattern books a year from their factories in Cambridgeshire and as blinds become ever more popular they have established a solid reputation for quality and reliability in blind sample books too.

Jon Allen, Managing Director and Andrew Pike, Sales Director with examples of PTD blind pattern books.

To improve efficiencies and enable larger projects to be handled in minimum turnaround times, PTD have invested in specialised equipment for converting materials supplied into samples and then printing and applying a label to each piece.

Managing Director Jon Allen said “When a new range is being launched, we work with customers to develop the design specification by making mock-ups. Then it’s our job to turnaround sample books as quickly as possible because these are needed from ‘day one’ to promote the range. So we need the firepower to handle large numbers of samples while paying close attention to detail. I refer to our automated kit as our combine harvester because it’s not needed all the time but when it runs it quickly eats through the quantities!”

A recent medium-sized project required over 600,000 individual patterns to be cut, labelled, collated and assembled into finished binders made in-house in just 4 weeks; the whole project was managed and co-ordinated by PTD to fit with fabric availability and shipping plans. As the finished binders were critical to launch timetables in countries as distant as Australia nothing could be left to chance. In-house case making helped cut lead time and exacting quality was maintained. All deadlines were achieved.

Pike are quality assured to ISO 9001 standard.