MISTRAL MODELS

Established in 2006, Mistral Models is owned, operated and managed by Daran Peters, a craftsman with over 35 years’ experience in this field.

Highly-skilled and fully resourced with the ability to create whatever is needed, they focus on providing the complete modelling service.

Their client base include the film industry, automotive and aircraft manufacturers, classic car owners, heavy industrial companies, exhibition and display stand makers, designers, lighting companies, vacuum forming, private individuals, point of sale, composite, tooling and others.

The company rely on their Maxicam M8 1212 5 Axis CNC router with 5 synchronising interpolated axis and their Maxicam M4 1224 with 400mm Z axis to manufacture bespoke foundry patterns, mould tools, composite jigs and models.

Follow Daran’s work on http://mistralmodels.com/

Camberwell College of Art

Camberwell is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is regarded as one of the UK’s foremost art and design institutions.

Maxicam has supplied them with a Maxi M2-1325 for their prototypes.

This installation was tricky  due to a narrow passage. The Maxicam engineers, along with our specialised machine movers, dismantled the machine and put in its side to fit in the tight doorway, as can be seen in the below photos.

CNC Creations

Brian is a joiner who is taking a sideways step into the world of CNC machining and design. He has taught himself with the help of the Manx workshop for the disabled and Next Step.

He uses a Maxi-S 0404 Compact Series to help in his creations.

REDDITCH FAN MANUFACTURER RELY ON MAXICAM M3-1530

Central Fans Colasit Ltd formed in 1987 has become the UK’s largest specialist designer and manufacturer of Plastic Corrosion Resistant Fans of all types. Based from its manufacturing and design HQ in Redditch, Worcs they manufacture a large range of corrosion resistant fans from materials such as PVC, Polypropylene, and PVDF. The company uses a high speed Maxicam M3 CNC router with 8 position tool changer to CNC the range with extremely high tolerances which enables the skilled technicians to assemble the units with a perfect degree of accuracy before plastic welding the seams of the units. With most of the fans a raw edge is visible so it was imperative the edges were smooth and circular apertures were perfectly round, the M3 delivers with precision, reliability and speed.

“Our old twin head CNC router was starting to let us down and we knew we needed to invest in a new bit of kit. After the demos and quotes were received we had a good feeling about the Maxicam offering, we felt it would give us the peace of mind we required as a single machine owner integrating the CNC system in to a just in time manufacturing process. Reliability and performance were keys areas for consideration and we certainly felt the build quality, superior components and level of service were spot on” Dave Cole – Works Director

For more information on Central Fans Colasit Ltd please visit: www.central-fans.co.uk

MISTRAL MODELS

Established in 2006, Mistral Models is owned, operated and managed by Daran Peters, a craftsman with over 35 years’ experience in this field.

Highly-skilled and fully resourced with the ability to create whatever is needed, they focus on providing the complete modelling service.

Their client base include the film industry, automotive and aircraft manufacturers, classic car owners, heavy industrial companies, exhibition and display stand makers, designers, lighting companies, vacuum forming, private individuals, point of sale, composite, tooling and others.

The company rely on their Maxicam M8 1212 5 Axis CNC router with 5 synchronising interpolated axis and their Maxicam M4 1224 with 400mm Z axis to manufacture bespoke foundry patterns, mould tools, composite jigs and models.

Follow Daran’s work on http://mistralmodels.com/

GPN Bespoke Furniture

GPN  are bespoke furniture manufacturers based in Hull with over 50 years’ experience of furniture craftsmanship.

They manufacture products utilising a wide range of materials from laminates, wood veneers, solid timbers and solid surface materials such as Corian.  They have a spray shop for painted or lacquered finish furniture and also a solid surface oven which allows them to curve and shape solid surface material.

GPN’s expertise lies reception counters, storage, lab furniture, seating which they supply and install.  To help create their beautiful items, they rely on the Maxicam M3-1530 CNC router.

“The machine has allowed us to speed up the manufacturing process on all jobs and now allows us to have more control over each job as before we had to sub-contract the CNC work out to other local companies.

It has also allowed us to take on supply only jobs including machining various retro arcade / gaming machines.  They are machined in plain MDF and Melamine MDF finishes.  These have been constant weekly orders for us since the machine has been up and running.  These types of jobs would never have been possible for us before we had the machine. “

Paul Capes, from GPN Bespoke Furniture

Check out GPN’s work on https://www.gpnbespokefurniture.co.uk