The machine, bought from Cheshire-based supplier AG/CAD, was supplied with the optional SuperHead cutting head, which has a wide variety of tool inserts for flexibility, and a K-Cut Vision Pro camera system, which identifies printed registration marks and improves cutting accuracy.
The cutter is also supplied with Kasemake packaging design CAD software.
The cutter, which is due to be installed on 18 May and cost approximately £100,000, has three interchangeable heads and an oscillating router tool. According to the manufacturer it can run at up to 60m/min and cut materials up to 25mm thick.
“Basically, the cutter has been bought to cut thicker material, including aluminium. This will go alongside a Summa F-series cutter that we already have but wasn’t allowing us to cut certain materials,” said Impact director Massi Chiossone. Impact was the first company in the country to install the Summa F-series cutter four years ago.
Chiossone and his colleagues spent a while settling on which cutter to buy. “We had a look at three machines, and even went to Belgium to see a Kongsberg, but the DYSS was the one that ticked all the boxes,” he said.
While previously some jobs were outsourced to suppliers, the purchase of the new cutter will, according to Chiossone, enable the firm to increase production, as all work can now be done in-house. It will also be able to use larger, more cost-effective sheet sizes.
Impact produces a variety of different large-format exhibition graphics, posters, pop-up roller banners, PVC banners and signage. It also provides litho and digital printing services. Other kit includes a Canon Océ Arizona flatbed, two HP Latex printers and two HP aqueous printers.
Last year, the 14-staff firm turned over £1.3m and expects this to increase by up to 25% in 2016, after an investment of over £150,000.
Impact will mark its 20th anniversary with a staff party in the office.
