Cobal experiences the very best of Italy
There can be no doubt that the sign industry in 2016 has seen been the site for a fierce battle between its veteran businesses as they seek to capitalise on a bump in our sector economy.
Monday, 21 Nov 2016 15:46 GMT
“The Protek Unico CNC is advancing the industry by giving its users the ability to do more, to do it in less time and to lower operating costs,” says Julian Sage of Complete CNC Solutions
Cobal Signs is the latest to have invested in a new piece of hardware to retain its competitive edge, plumping for a brand-new Italian-manufactured Protek Unico CNC production routing system that has been supplied through Complete CNC Solutions.
“Cobal Signs has been in business since the early eighties and is today an absolute reflection of the needs of the markets it serves. The company is polarised around an amalgam of engineering and design skills and driven by strong service-led ethics and a consultative approach to product development,” explains Julian Sage, managing director of Complete CNC.
The company may be cast in the role of a sign manufacturer but is actually much more
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He continues: “The company may be cast in the role of a sign manufacturer but is actually much more. It presides over large and complex wayfinding projects and uses its decades of experience to deliver sustainable and manageable solutions that perform from day one and that flex with the needs of the customer over time.”
Cobal Signs’ needs included the ability to process a wide range of resistant materials including plastics, metals, and woods. Cutting tests were conducted at Sign and Digital where the opportunity to compare machines directly and in a convenient time-frame presented itself.
Sage continues: “Unusually for a sign company, Cobal Signs’ needs included heavier machining operations involving bulk material removal and not just profiling operations in lighter materials. The Protek Unico CNC, is heavily constructed and does not shy from such needs. In fact, it excels burning down such varied workloads.”
Cobal Signs’ Protek Unico CNC was the first in the UK and was fitted with a flatness probe, mist coolant system, and registration camera. The system also has a twelve bay auto tool changer which has been a key asset to the firm, as it deals with a highly-varied range of substrates.
Sage concludes: “Cobal Signs is now equipped to react to expressions of customer need with a solution that’s not only an exact fit, it’s produced wholly in-house to the highest orders of quality. The system has allowed the company to pursue production efficiencies, to introduce new product and to expand the scope of its offering to existing markets and beyond.
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