High Precision CNC routing of digitally printed panels.

Classic Dispense Courtyard Sign. Wanting a high end finish to their fully working pub with a sign that reflected the company image whilst retaining a country pub feel. It needed to have a metal style finish that could be seen through the design and that was easy to erect. To achieve this we designed a sign that was digitally printed on our virtu then CNC fabricated to include fixings routed into the design post digital print. This reduced costs and provided an easy fixing solution that also looked really good. Brushed composite dibond was printed direct to surface allowing the main letters to have no colour leaving the natural brass effect of the material to show through. A box section was CNC routed at the rear and folded to reveal fixing holes pre-drilled.  

       

     



Holland Build Construction; updated their premises requiring a new signage. Using their existing logo they wanted more presence from a sign that was too small and not visible from a distance. With a high end specialist client base in construction the sign needed to look and follow their heritage. Using brushed aluminium dibond, the letters were CNC routed and applied using standoff's to give a drop shadow to enhance at all viewing angles.

    

Admonter Flooring S Shaped Engineered Floor for London Based Architects, a high end European manufacturer of wooden flooring, approached us with an unusual request for a curved floor.
   The house where the flooring was to be installed had a distinct 'S' shaped curve along the length of the building. The project required a corresponding curve on every board. There were 33 rows with a total of over 750 individual curved boards to be CNC machined, all requiring a different degree of curvature! This presented the manufacturer with an interesting challenge and hence we were approached as precision CNC specialists. From the architect's drawings, we had to take the curvature of the building and project it back to its point of origin, from there we could calculate the specific curvature of each row of flooring, much like the rings of a tree. CAD software enabled us to produce a blueprint for the entire building totaling 76 bespoke CNC programs.
  As the boards were delivered to us, we re-machined them according to the CAD file we had created. All the boards were then numbered and packed thus making for a straight forward installation. Our customer was impressed with the precision with which the boards were supplied and their installation went ahead as planned and according to schedule.

     
Preparation of over 750 individual untreated boards.                                   Fully treated the 'S' Shape flows throughout

Often digitally printed direct to the surface they are post cut to your specific profile. Foamex sheets are fast becoming the main substrate on the large format print bed. Using one of the UK's largest foamex suppliers nearby, we can produce stunning digital prints with short lead times essential for our exhibition clients. Having this facility in house means we can quickly turn around a complete job from artwork and design, to print and cut, all under one roof. Our accuracy and repeat run success is due to our ability to translate your auto cad dwg, dxf, eps, ai into production files. Our experience with various plastics is combined with our tool geometry using to achieve a high finish. The tooling offers tight tolerances in cnc cutting to enable easy assembly of components at the production stage. For example, a large foamex sign with digital print often needs to be cut to fit signage frames to exact tolerances.

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