Skyline Design, a glass fabricator and long-time Zünd customer, produces interior and exterior glass products for clients nationwide in corporate environments, hospitality, transportation and healthcare. The company recently upgraded to new Zünd technology.
Skyline Design’s innovative development and fabrication processes are now focused exclusively on decorative glass products. They include printing on glass, painting on glass, laminating and etching glass, as well as various combinations of all of the above. The company’s mission is to sustainably expand the use of glass with its capacity to improve both the utility and beauty of the spaces people use for work, health, home, study and play.
One of their signature products is Skyline Design LCG® Smart Glass that turns transparent or opaque, providing full privacy at the push of a button. The technology behind this innovative product is Gauzy Polymer-Dispersed Liquid-Crystal adhesive film, which is also where the Zünd cutter comes in. Said Vipul Bhagat, President, ‘As one of a select few authorized Gauzy users and installers in the U.S., we needed to find a way to avoid all the difficulties and lack of control associated with importing and stocking this material in precut sizes. Luckily, we knew who to call.’ Skyline Design reached out to Zünd America for recommendations on the latest digital cutting solution best suited for this specialty application.
The difficulty with Gauzy film is a tendency to delaminate along the edges during the cutting process. While this is not a problem in the waste on the outside of the cut line, the product itself needs to remain perfectly intact. Both the kiss-cuts and through-cuts required on each panel need to be very clean and precise to work well with the electronic components added in a subsequent stage.
Through testing at Zünd America’s extensive Customer Experience Centre, the application team figured out the Zünd S3 L-1600 configuration, as well as the specific cutting tools, methods, and parameters that would perfectly meet Skyline Design’s production requirements. Trading in an older Zünd PN system made the upgrade to the latest Zünd technology and workflow automation very affordable, and ever since the installation, the company has taken full advantage of their expanded, on-demand manufacturing capabilities.
Concluded Bhagat, ‘We cannot wait to benefit even more from the versatility and expandability of the Zünd S3. Who knows, we may even add tools for making our own custom boxes to facilitate shipping smaller pieces and samples.’
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