UK-based Freestyle Designs was approached by a local community initiative who asked them if they could make face shields for the National Health Service (NHS) to help in the battle against Covid-19.
Freestyle Designs is working 24-hour shifts to produce safety shields and rubber straps. By using a combination of the Double Edge Cutout Knife and the Kiss-Cut tool on their Summa F1612 flatbed cutter, the company was able to produce the shields by the thousands, with ease, but without mess or fumes.
To enable even faster production of the safety shields, the company contacted Summa to arrange an F-Performance upgrade on their F1612 flatbed cutter. Jayson Godridge, director of Freestyle Designs, explained, ‘The usage of the F-Performance mode on the F1612 made a huge difference to our production speed. This way, we were able to increase the number of finished shields by an additional 2500 per day. The small gains on feed speed and tool movement really add up to give us around 30% additional productivity on this particular project.’
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