ITC helps sign maker boost productivity
30 May 2019The Design Shop in North Devon is a commercial signage, print and interior design company that offers a varied range of services and products.
For the last 15 years, the Barnstaple business has been relying on cutting tools manufactured by Tamworth Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC).
“For years we have been using routing tools from ITC on a wide variety of applications and materials” said the Design Shop’s Adam Paull.
“We were previously using a 6mm diameter tool for machining 18mm thick plywood sheets (8x4ft) and were using a standard routing tool. However, we were cutting ply sheets more frequently for bars, restaurants and exhibition displays and we needed to improve our machining performance. ITC recommended its 2091 Series compression tool and we immediately went from almost 2m/min feed rate up to 10m/min cutting sheets more than five times faster than before.
“Furthermore, the previous tool could only process five 8x4ft sheets before burn-out. The new 2091 Series will process 15 sheets before we need a tool change. This gives us three times the tool life and five times the productivity.
“Additionally, the edge finishes are vastly improved and we no longer have to spend 10-15 minutes hand-finishing the edges of each sheet.”
