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News Release from: EskoArtwork
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 July 2006
Esko cutting table completes investment
Graf in Hatfield has installed an Esko Kongsberg i-XL44 table and MGE i-cut vision system to complete its initial plant investment.
The equipment was acquired by Graf to implement a global service offering of wide-format graphics to leading companies such as Disney, Puma, and Gap, including work for the recent World Cup campaign in Germany Mill Pond Graphics, Esko's sole independent distributor for the Kongsberg i-XL series in the UK, managed the acquisition
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Esko offers excellent support and provides an extremely dedicated installation team." Gary Carr has been very impressed with the Esko Kongsberg i-XL44 table's ability to handle runs of up to 150 large size units within incredibility tight lead times: "In my opinion, the Kongsberg i-XL44 CAM table is the best you can buy".
"It saves us time waiting for a die cut and provides us with maximum levels of productivity and outstanding precision with its excellent tooling flexibility." Puma is one of Graf's high-profile clients.
Graf produces the company's worldwide branding elements for its' changing rooms.
A technical diagram is created that sets the changing room shelving, hooks and mirrors into a default pattern.
Using Esko ArtiosCAD software, Puma's graphics are designed, shaped and cut to conform to the desired pattern.
The unique vinyl graphics are finished on the i-XL44 Kongsberg at Graf in Hatfield and then shipped all over the world where they are installed in Puma stores by a selected team of installers.
The exciting graphics transform the environment within the changing rooms and attract the public's attention.
The potential themes are endless - from bike sheds to saunas, Graf can produce any imaginable interior depending on the client's promotional objectives.
Working for noted customers such as the Gap, the graphics need to be spot on.
For example, the Gap's London, Oxford Street store represents a vital window display advertising opportunity".
""The Gap sends us the files print-ready and we create the cutting guides in Adobe Illustrator," says Carr".
""Because Esko's ArtiosCAD software supports an open architecture, the Kongsberg i-XL can accurately read the file".
"It is the finishing that counts and this is where the Esko machine meets the challenge".
"The Kongsberg i-XL44 cutting table gives us the perfect finished product." Graf is still in its' early days as a company but volumes are already high and Gary Carr anticipates a profit in the first year".
""We are working with high profile clients who demand delivery on time and to a very high standard of workmanship".
"Esko's Kongsberg i-XL table is a productivity machine and without it we could not accomplish what we are doing," concludes Carr.
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