The latest news from AG/CAD
Regularly updated packaging-related news from AG/CAD, including KASESTUDIES and what's going on at KASEMAKE House
KASEMAKE and DYSS X5 Chosen as The Design Solution For Boxes and Packaging
By AG/CAD
Boxes and Packaging is the UK’s largest independent sheet plant network. With 12 well invested manufacturing sites covering the entire country, Boxes and Packaging (incorporating Boxshop Ltd and Red Rose Packaging) has the expertise and ability to fulfil all customer demand.
Can You Teach An Old Dog New Tricks?
By Craig Allen, Swiftpak
On June 1st, 2021, I joined Swiftpak as Head of Innovation - not only a new role for me but also a change in Swiftpak’s plans for their own Design and Innovation Service. With every design facility a good design cad software package is the essential tool. KASEMAKE filled that role.
Delighted to see the new KASEMAKE CXD in action at London Metropolitan Archives
By CXD International
Delighted to see the new KASEMAKE CXD in action at London Metropolitan Archives, one of several new CAD units we have installed this year.
Belmont Packaging Increase Productivity And Sales By Investing In DYSS And KASEMAKE
By AG/CAD
Belmont packaging is a corrugated sheet plant based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The company has been trading since 1978 and was bought by its current owner Kate Hulley in 2013.
DYSS X5 Digital Cutter and KASEMAKE Software for Macfarlane’s State-of-the-Art Innovation Lab
By AG/CAD
AG/CAD has provided CAD software and cutter solutions to the Macfarlane Group for many years. KASEMAKE packaging design software is used at sites across the group, in manufacturing and distribution, including the original Milton Keynes Innovation Lab.
DYSS X7 And Canon Arizona For Entwistle
By AG/CAD
Founded in 1899, The Entwistle Thorpe Group started out offering supplies to the photographic and printing industries. Over the last one hundred years the services offered have evolved, now catering for current trends in computer aided drafting, digital graphic products along with value added packaging and point of sale displays.
Do you want to be able to quickly and efficiently produce your own boxes and folders?
By CXD International
KASEMAKE CXD is a sophisticated box making machine that has established itself as the conservator's choice in libraries and archives worldwide. Make it your solution!
Cases24 Ready For The Future With DYSS Digital Cutter And KASEMAKE
By AG/CAD
Cases24 is the case making division of Board24, which is in turn part of the Logson group of companies. The Logson Group is a UK based group of corrugated packaging companies employing over 1000 people and turning over £200m annually.
City Signs Expand Into New Markets With DYSS X7 Flatbed Cutter
By AG/CAD
City Signs, which was originally started in Luton by Horace Wilkins upon the completion of his apprenticeship, has been trading for 60 years. The company moved to Worcester in the late 1960s and has been trading in the area ever since.
Print On Grows Its Business With A DYSS Digital Cutter
By AG/CAD
Since its inception in 1995, Print On in Cheshire has evolved from a high-street photocopy shop to a digital print-on-demand company producing everything from posters and signage through to pop-up banners, stationery, die cut boxes, POS displays, FSDUs, acrylic boards and general large format print and finishing. To support this growth, the Cheadle company has moved to a new purpose-built facility and filled it with the latest print and finishing technology, including a DYSS digital cutter from AG/CAD.
DYSS X9 Cutter With Sheet-Handling Automation Improves Turnaround For Derwent
By AG/CAD
Founded over quarter of a century ago, Derwent Displays has invested more than £1.75m in the last two years to underpin its strategy of employing the latest technology to continue its growth trajectory whilst enhancing customer service and experience. Part of this growth strategy is to develop new market segments beyond its already expansive reach that includes design & prototyping, print and finishing, in-house assembly, packaging and project delivery.
DYSS Digital Cutter Is The Smart Choice For Packaging Manufacturer
By AG/CAD
Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Smart Packaging Ltd has been on a growth trajectory that has culminated in a move to a new factory, investment in a casemaking machine and now the arrival of a new digital cutter from AG/CAD.
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Generates Growth For Tailor Made
By AG/CAD
Like many family owned businesses, Tailor Made Signs & Embroidery was set-up as a home based business that has flourished over its 20 years of existence. Joanne Pawlett started a small embroidery business from home and after husband Lee later joined the company and the couple got their first industrial unit and printer in 2002 - the growth ever since has been exponential.
DYSS Cuts It For Printvision
By AG/CAD
Printvision is a business that was conceived in a bedroom by two budding entrepreneurs, Ash and Krit Patel. Twenty one years after the ambitious brothers made the bold decision to found Printvision as co-directors, the company has just invested over £1.5million in two 3m wide digital printers, a 3.2m wide digital cutter from AG/CAD and a new 14,000sq/ft facility.
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Brings Success
By AG/CAD
There are very few print businesses that can say they have ridden the tide of continuous change and market evolution and remained successful throughout their existence. Thomas Leach Colour is a company that has not only sailed through the industry challenges; it has excelled since its inception almost 120 years ago.
Tristar Become A One Stop Shop And Add Value With A DYSS
By AG/CAD
When TriStar Printers Ltd exited the downturn amongst a flooded and cut-throat traditional small format litho industry, the Blackburn print company re-aligned its business strategy in a concerted effort to add value for its customer base. This strategy involved adding 40% to its floor area to house a large format print department with a Canon Océ Arizona flatbed digital printer and alongside it a DYSS X7 digital cutter from AG/CAD.
PPFS Brings Out The Bunting For DYSS
By AG/CAD
Professional Print Finishing Services (PPFS) Ltd was initially formed in 1997 by Annette and Joe Hobbs as a home-based business in addition to their day-jobs, with the pair working both day and night. This relentless work-ethic has seen the family business recently pass its 20th anniversary, growing exponentially to fill a 50,000sq ft facility in North London.
JCT Eliminate Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7
By AG/CAD
As a company that has relocated to new facilities three times in the last four years, JCT Developments is witnessing extraordinary growth levels. Despite the relentless growth, the Hampshire company that specialises in large format digital advertising and retail print production, POS signage and the respective fitting, has seen business expand by 30% over the last 12 months.
AG/CAD Helps Cornish Company Instantly Grow By 20 Percent
By AG/CAD
Stepping from the employed world to starting a print business can be a daunting prospect, but for Glenn Wrigley the ambition of moving from city life to the Cornish coast was all the incentive that was needed. Seven years after making the life changing decision to re-locate and conceive Print-2-Media, Mr. Wrigley is reaping the rewards of his decision with the help of a DYSS X7-1624C digital cutting machine from AG/CAD.
C3 Cuts Costs And Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7 1630T
By AG/CAD
C3 Midlands Creative Design & Print Solutions is a company name that gives a distinct description of what this 18 employee Birmingham business is all about. The company prides itself on its ability to turnaround customer’s work quickly whilst doing it well. It is this commitment to quality with a fast turnaround that has seen C3 invest in a DYSS X7-1630T digital cutter from AG/CAD.
Potts Print Packaging Meets Short Lead Times With DYSS Digital Cutters
By AG/CAD
With a history that dates back to 1875, Potts Print (UK) has evolved through the years to become one of the UK’s leading print, packaging and direct mail companies. The ability to deliver litho as well as personalised digital print solutions, along with bespoke packaging and direct mail, all with seamless production, storage and distribution services is the result of managerial foresight and a continuous investment strategy that sets the Cramlington company apart from its competitors.
DYSS Bottles Success For Print Leeds
By AG/CAD
As far as growth and investment goes, there are few print businesses currently spending at the level of Print Leeds. The rapidly evolving company has invested over £3.5m in the last four years with a projected spend of an additional £5m in the next 18 months.
DYSS X5 Fast Digital Cutter Helps Anytech Print Expand
By AG/CAD
Creative cardboard engineering and print specialist, Anytech Limited, has installed a DYSS X5 digital cutter, supplied by AG/CAD Limited, at its Swindon premises. The investment in the DYSS was made to enhance its in-house capabilities as a response to increasing demand, and to grow the large format part of the business.
Packaging Company Turns A New Leaf With A DYSS X5 1310T
By AG/CAD
As a manufacturer of personalised products, ring binders, boxes, folders and much more, British Loose Leaf (BLL) has now invested in a DYSS X5 digital cutter from AG/CAD.
AG/CAD Gives Quantum Of Solace For Print Innovator
By AG/CAD
Formed over a decade ago from the merging of a print company specialising in promotional and POS work with a traditional box manufacturer, the ethos and philosophy of Quantum Print & Packaging Ltd has always been continuous improvement. To ensure the company delivers for its customers, the Midlands outfit recently invested in a Ricoh C9100 digital press and shortly afterwards added a DYSS digital cutter from AG/CAD.
DYSS X7 Can Make Your Sign Graphics Business Sing
By AG/CAD
Thames Graphics is a business that has kept pace with the trends and developments of the large format print industry since the company was founded in 1984. At the start of the new millennium, the High Wycombe company was moving toward digital print. However, it was the acquisition of the business by husband and wife team Alex and Ivan that really drove the company through its most successful decade of growth.
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Helps To Stand Out Above The Competition
By AG/CAD
From the success of Stand Innovations Ltd, a 10-year-old exhibition stand building company; a new print and design business has now blossomed. The thriving growth of the Sharnford based exhibition specialist, prompted the company directors to start up StandOut Graphics, an innovative Large Format Printing Company specialising in providing bespoke visual advertising solutions to virtually any brief.
Heavy Duty Box Manufacturer Installs DYSS Digital Cutter
By AG/CAD
As a traditional sheet plant that has been manufacturing heavy duty boxes and fitments since its inception in 1983, S Lester Packing Materials Ltd has recently implemented a new strategy to help win new business. This strategy has included the opening of a design and innovation centre, and key to this new centre is a DYSS digital cutting table and KASEMAKE software supplied by AG/CAD.
DYSS Automates Large Format Cutting For POS Packaging Specialist Daytona
By AG/CAD
When Daytona Visual opened its doors for business back in 1979, the company was set up as a screen print company with a distinct eye for employing innovation. Always aiming to push the boundaries, Daytona was one of the first companies to produce four-colour screen print on a commercial basis for point of sale and in-store applications. Today, the Daytona customer base includes some of the world’s leading companies, brands, agencies and retailers; something the company puts down to its combination of expert staff and investment in leading technology.
WE Roberts Add A DYSS X5 1630T As Part Of Technology Investment
By AG/CAD
Living under the long shadow and rubble left by the Luftwaffe in 1950s London, Alan Roberts and his father made a living out of turning discarded cardboard boxes inside-out, re-gluing and re-selling the boxes. Inadvertently, the East-End business borne out of necessity was actually recycling generations before the rest of the industry even grasped the concept.
DYSS Is Music To The Ears Of Festival Promotions Printer
By AG/CAD
As a print and signage business that specialises in working with festival and concert promotion companies, Twenty Four Seven Design and Print Ltd. delivers a complete publicity package for musicians and music events. Working closely with event organisers and promoters, the Warrington business prints everything from leaflets, general POS products, safety banners, instruction booklets and even road signs – all can now be finished on the company’s new DYSS digital cutting system supplied by AG/CAD.
AG/CAD Delivers Complete Package For Box Manufacturer
By AG/CAD
Producing over seven million boxes and cartons a year, Advanced Packaging considers itself a typical ‘brown box’ manufacturer. Priding itself on its remarkably high customer retention levels over its 13 years in business, the Staffordshire company isn’t resting on its laurels and has taken a decision to drive the business forward with an investment in a DYSS X5-1630T Digital Die Cutter from AG/CAD.
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