Since the installation of the Zünd S3 L-1600, CP Composites have seen huge benefits of the new Zünd cutter within the business.
CP Composites was established in August 2011 in the town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, an area well-known for composite laminating and motorsports manufacturing. The company began processing composite parts for the Le Mans LMP1 and LMP2 cars and as the company’s reputation for service began to spread, new customers came onboard from other motorsport sectors including World Rally Championship and Formula 1.
Brian Cooper Managing Director at CP Composites explained, ‘Our productivity has easily improved by 20% and our material efficiency usage has never been better. We have just found so many small gains, which have improved the overall process. For example, in the past we would need to visually set the blade depth and at times, ended up cutting into the bed. This created more problems because the loose belt fibres would end up cross contaminating the pre-impregnated (pre-preg) materials. But now this is done by the S3 cutter using a smart Integrated Tool Initialisation function. This enables automatic blade initialisation, allowing for optimum cutting depth setting, making the process far quicker and precise.’
CP Composites also opted for a front extension table on their Zünd S3 L-1600, which allows more working area for their operators. Cooper said, ‘The cutting bed size on the previous Exact cutter was smaller, meaning the cutter could only process smaller pre-preg rolls and we had no working area. This made picking small composite parts very difficult. The operators at CP Composites have also found the new nesting software much faster.’
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