Nene Packaging installed the Zünd S3 last month
Nene Packaging has installed a Zünd S3 digital cutting table at its Northampton factory, enabling it to produce packaging and display samples for customers of all sizes.
As an approved supplier for Tesco and producer of POS and floor displays for other large supermarket and retail names, Nene Packaging accommodates customers with large budgets, but its ageing CAD tables and screen-printing equipment meant small businesses were being priced out.
‘Our two CAD tables were antiquated, slow and limited to cutting out plain cardboard,’ explained owner Rob Lugmayer. ‘To produce low volume runs, our customers needed to spend £100 to £200 on tooling costs, which made it impossible for smaller businesses.
‘Furthermore, we’ve experienced significant customer demand for digitally printed full sized mock ups. We needed an upgrade to drive forward the marketplace.’
In March 2016 Zünd UK distributor CMYUK supplied an ex display S3 to replace one of the CAD tables, alongside a new EFI VUTEk wide format printer, which alleviates prohibitive tooling costs as well as speeding up the sample making process and enabling short production runs.
‘Our designers were really impressed; it will benefit them no end and allow them to do things they couldn’t do before,’ he said. ‘It’s more than a sample table, it’s a sophisticated production machine and design table, giving additional skill sets to members of staff in the Nene Packaging factory.’
The Zünd S3 features a camera system that reads registration dots printed outside the main printing area and cuts accordingly – quickly, safely and efficiently to reduce waste materials. Like all Zünd cutters it offers modular tooling, enabling automated processing of a wide variety of materials up to 25mm thick, making it ideal for both Nene Packaging’s POS and display sample production and its general brown-box work for engineering parts. It also features a compact footprint and is supplied with Zünd UK’s nationwide support as standard.
