About Us

Company information

LF BOOKBINDERS were established in May 1984, formerly know from 1984 to 1997 as ALFA Bookbinders. Founded by Julie (Guillaume Johannes Luus) in Pretoria. He did his trade at the Government Printers, Pretoria from 1958 to 1965.

Julie was employed by the University of Pretoria (TUKS/UP) at the Merensky Library under the late Professor Rector Joubert for several years. He and his sons did binding for influential people such as Anton Rupert, MP for Inkata Freedom Party, Koos van der Merwe and Advocate Tjaart Marais and more.

His sons Guilaume and Charl have learned all of the skills and trades skills about bookbinding from their father and have been running the business since 1997. Sadly their father passed away on 9 February 2015.

LF Bookbinders ae familiar with all binding methods and techniques for binding and do work for academical institutions, as well as for private companies and including the public.

Their workmanship and track record speaks for it self and they are proud to be in business for over 37 years.

Services

LF Bookbinders use genuine and/or artificial leather in their binding of books, thesis and other study materials.

We specialise in the following services:

Law books (Periodicals / Journals)
Government Gazettes
Protocol Documents
Minutes of meetings
Reservation books
Journals
Dissertations (Thesis)
Bibles
Perfect Binding (Coffee table Books)
Restoration of any size of books
Leather and Material Repairs.
Embossing
Foiling
Personalised Diaries/Books

We have a wide range of clients from big to small and we are proud to be associated with them.

LF Bookbinders’ Motto, ‘Quality service and customer satisfaction always comes first’.