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London-based Perton Signs invests in an AXYZ 4010 router
West London-based Perton Signs is a long established manufacturer of signs and nameplates, primarily offering a complete sign and graphics and digital printing service to the exhibition, event and conference industries from its 12,000 square feet production facility in Acton. The decision to purchase an AXYZ 4010 router was driven primarily by the need to further improve the finish of the products that the company already supplies to these industries.
The AXYZ 4010 router is one of the 4000 series of machines that is recognised as something of a sign industry stalwart, with a capability to handle a broad range of materials like acrylic, aluminium, polycarbonate and foamed board in eight x four sheets of material in a thickness of up to 150mm as now required by sign and graphics producers. The router installed at Perton Signs has an overall processing area of 3,048mm (length) x 1,524mm (width) and includes a five horsepower routing spindle, tangential/oscillating knife and vacuum bed.
Production Manager at Perton Signs, Ray Green commented: ‘With the AXYZ 4010 router we are now able to take on jobs that hitherto would have taken us much longer to carry out manually to ensure a perfect finish whilst enabling us to drastically reduce production time and commensurately increasing profitability.’ The AXYZ router is used for a wide range of material processing requirements in equally wide-ranging sign and graphics and digital printing projects, from the profiling of Pop-Up display graphics to the simple routing of acrylic sheet such as Perspex and foamed board-based letters and panels.
Ray Green added: ‘We have found that using the AXYZ router on certain projects has enabled a much superior finish to be achieved than was previously possible and with the software installed we are able to print and cut in a single process. A typical example was the work undertaken for the ECOBUILD 2011 exhibition involving the use of DUFAYLITE ultra board which in the past would have required the manual input of at least six operatives.’
More recently, the company has been engaged in a project on behalf of an artist/designer using 12- and 10-millimetre acrylic that had to be routed into various designs and cut at different depths for displays to be used at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ray Green commented: ‘This is the kind of work that we would have been unable to handle before purchasing the AXYZ 4010 router. The machine has enabled us to diversify and to take on exciting projects that would otherwise have been impossible.’
In conclusion, Ray Green commented: ‘Since installation, the AXYZ router has worked continuously and without any problems. If there are any technical issues that need to be addressed, it has always been reassuring to know that there was always someone available at AXYZ International to answer any questions and provide the right advice on the correct processing of different substrates.’
For further information:
Perton Signs Limited
Perton House
Roslin Road
London
W3 8DH
United Kingddom
http://www.pertonsigns.com/
mark@pertonsigns.co.uk
02089925775.
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