Monday, 18 Aug 2014 13:04 GMT

Fastrak makes the cut with DYSS

Fastrak Retail of Macclesfield has made a move to increase its market clout as a complete in-house package provider by investing in a DYSS X7 1630T die cutting table.

The DYSS X7 boasts a 3050 x 1650mm static bed and claims to be capable of cutting on everything from foamex, honeycomb board, Perspex, PETG, and corrugated cardboard of all types and thicknesses.

Fastrak managing director, John Barrett comments: “We’re always highly receptive to our customers’ needs, and their demands told us that it was time for us to buy our own cutting table. So we fully reviewed the market for a machine that could meet the diverse needs of our business in terms of bed size, design capability through the supporting software packages and the rigidity and ability to cut a wide scope of materials.”

We’re always highly receptive to our customers’ needs, and their demands told us that it was time for us to buy our own cutting table”

When put to the test on its first job, continues Barrett, he claims the DYSS came up trumps. SUGRU adhesive products commissioned the design and manufacture of semi-permanent cardboard display units, which Fastrak completed with the use of the Kasemake CAD suite. Some 500 displays were then creased and cut on the new table.

Barrett continues: “The SUGRU job was an ideal example of why we bought the DYSS X7. The combination of the DYSS and its KASEMAKE CAD package enabled us to design the packaging, the print layout and also conduct the cutting and creasing of the display packages in-house. Without the DYSS, we wouldn’t have been able to do the job, or it would have been completed by a third party.”