Technology buffs speculate that e-book readers such as the iPad and Kindle are on the way to replacing traditional hand-held volumes, but a family-owned Belgian book-binding company is growing its business through photobooks and notebooks that customers can personalize with their own pictures and information.

Peleman Industries NV is selling its products in about 130 countries, and Alpharetta-based subsidiary Peleman Industries Inc. is to open its first U.S. factory in Georgia in 2013.

Brigitte Peleman-Vantieghem told GlobalAtlanta that as children she and her sister Esmeralda toured the Peleman ...