Atlas Packaging praises new Zünd plotting table

Packaging Solutions

Devon based corrugated packaging specialist Atlas Packaging has installed a new Zünd G3 L2500 digital cutting table from Zünd Plotting Systems (UK) Ltd.

Atlas Packaging converts 30 million square metres of raw material to high quality finished products every year and previously relied on an older plotting table that it was 'quickly outgrowing', it says. Zünd UK took away the former machine through its part exchange deal, replacing it with a new G3 L2500. Atlas Packaging also formerly used a Wild Table 10 – a brand supplied by Zünd in the 1980s and 90s – which Atlas Packaging says remained reliable for a decade.

‘The plotting table is used by our in-house structural design team to create high quality prototypes which are sent to clients to review, ensuring that the product is perfect before it is approved for full production,’ explain Dave King, structural design manager at Atlas Packaging.’We chose to invest in Zünd due to its outstanding reputation for quality, and we were confident that the Swiss built machine would enable us to transform our output. The compatibility with our chosen software, Artios and Cape, was also a factor we needed to consider, as this now gives us the ability to render 2D diagrams into 3D prototypes.’

‘Our part exchange scheme proved very popular last year, enabling businesses with old and inefficient plotting tables from other brands to upgrade to a new Zünd at a lower cost,’ said Peter Giddings, sales director, Zünd Plotting Systems (UK). ‘As Atlas Packaging has found, the G3 L2500 is ideal for sample making and short run production purposes, providing accuracy, reliability and efficiency where it is most needed.’