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Trade show booths, way-finders, signs, kiosks, all require cutting of many different materials and often times the same sign or part is needed 100 times. With our state of the art waterjet technology we are able to stack certain materials to provide you with the most cost efficient cutting that we can offer. By stacking 5 sheets of your material and cutting once you are basically left with 5 identical pieces at roughly the cut cost of one. This is a huge benefit in cut time and cost whether it is a sign, or even a part.

Traditional waterjet machines would not be able to accomplish such accuracy from the first part in the stack to the last, and with an edge quality of your choice the final piece needs no additional filing or grinding.

SEIC receives a lot of single material cut jobs so needless to say anytime we get a chance to mix medias we are always excited. Cutting mixed materials to fit within each other takes a little bit of practice and patience though it always pays off resulting in an eye catching mixed material work of art.

A unique sign designer came to us with his sign design. This particular job our customer wanted the sign prototyped in fiber board to get the approval from his client. We cut the mock sign at a smaller scale in a fiber board, the designer received approval, then we cut the sign from its intended materials. The sign body was from stainless steel, while the address numbers were cut to fit from acrylic. The numbers fit perfectly and the designer and his customer was more than pleased.

We at SEIC care as much about your client as you do. Let us work with you to make sure your clients needs and desires are always taken care of.

Cut Rubber Like Butter!

Yea, occasionally we have some unusual projects bounce through our doors. A rubber ball company requested holes in their ball's for a new product they were launching. Our designers at SEIC quickly developed a custom jig to hold their product so that we could cut them perfectly. Jigging is an important role in waterjet cutting and weekly we are challenged with a unique product with an untraditional way to anchor it in order to cut the material properly without it moving.

Limestone Relief Cuts

Ten, 3 foot by 3 foot by 4inches thick, limestone blocks arrived at SEIC one morning with the request to make the initial cuts for a carved outdoor railing for an upscale home. Our designers took the rough design sketch of the clients, re-drew it to scale for their stone then sent it to the waterjet machine for cutting. The cuts were so detailed, smooth, and perfect that the customer was shocked. He still had to go through and hand carve the details but the amount of man hours the waterjet saved him truly pleased the client and increased his prophets compared to the labor hours he would of  initially spent.

Our most challenging cut yet! A customer with an 8" thick chunk of aluminum wanting two rings,12" in diameter, cut from the large block. With our "Tilt-a-Jet" technology we were able to cut the part without taper from top to bottom! Before the "Tilt-a-Jet" this degree of accuracy was unheard of! The more than pleased client was left with a high quality part, with very little material waste, and minimal machining to be done. This is what we call raising the bar in waterjet cutting.

The A, B, C's

If there is one thing to be certain about the A, B, C's of the signage world are crucial in representing your brand or style. This is where accuracy is important not in a scientific way but in a way of representing a companies brand or image correctly. A large company probably wouldn't cut their sign out of cardboard, so when they need their logos, brands, or names cut from an impressive material they come to us.

SEIC understands the importance of your companies image. We specialize in custom waterjet cut letters, logos, and signs, from a countless number of materials to fit your companies profile. And with an 80"x160" working envelope there is no letter too large!

"Bear", originally created by renowned artist Harro Maass, has been beautifully laser engraved into three, premium grade, Shanxi Black granite panels. The size of this piece is an amazing 2400mm x 2400mm, that is almost 8' x 8'! Even more amazing, each panel is just 8mm or .32" thick with a fiberglass backing for added strength. The solid granite ThinStone slabs offer very light weight surfaces for easy installation.

Wayfinders are incredibly helpful in guiding you to your destination while visiting park's, museum's, zoo's, town's, trail's, and well... just about anywhere! SEIC recently took over the task of creating simple wayfinder signs for a Zoo for an annual event. With wood as the medium we were able to laser into the wood to burn away the text while keeping a variety of animal prints scattered throughout the letters. The clarity and sharpness of the signs were so top notch, everyone was on time to the event and no-one got lost on their way out!

Signage is the key to visual communication. Without a sign how will you ever be found? How will you ever let the people know you are having a sale, or that your building is for lease? SEIC is able to make light laser cutting using our CO2 laser with a working envelope of 6 feet by 10 feet.This was part of a sign that a client wanted to put in front of his retail space that he was trying to lease. The letters and numbers were taken out and the sign was painted to spruce up the look from the fiber board's brown color.

Those bright white dots are the laser at work. Observe how the laser beam fires where the text is designed to be. This sign drop down was for a local company that wanted a clean stainless sign with black markings. While using a state-of-the-art marking medium we are able to bond a glass-like substance to the metal permanently resulting in a crisp, black mark. This is the same technology used by space programs who mark every part of a ship that goes into space.

What could be more architecturally sound than an enlarged laser etching ot the world-renowned drawing, the "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci. Vitruvius was an ancient Roman architect whom described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the classical orders of architecture. Shown here, the "Vitruvian Man" drawing has been enlarged and laser etched into an Italian style tile. These tiles offer red-clay, Italian bisque and unique Sepia tone coloring when they are laser-marked. The tile provides a remarkably sharp image with no marring or fading, a broad range of shading, an excellent level of detail, and has a natural, antique look.