#1 – Good News from YOU!

As a subscriber to way too many newsletters, RSS feeds and other news sources, I often see SupplierSource members with good news to tell. Since SupplierSource is meant to help you showcase yourselves and to learn more about each other, we’ll start posting good news that you send us as soon as we have two or three good items. This first one will be a trial to see if you think it’s a good idea and we’ll go from there.

Rapid Sheet Metal Now Offers Laser Cut Flat Acrylic Parts

Nashua, NH – July 22, 2008 — Rapid Sheet Metal, Inc., specializing in rapid turnaround of sheet metal and stamped metal prototypes, has announced that it has added a plastic material, acrylic, to its list of available materials. With a standard shipping lead-time of 5 business days or less, product designers can now be assured that flat acrylic prototypes are available in a week or less.

“Acrylic parts in the flat are used by product designers in a number of ways including bezels and face plates. Acrylic is also a good substitute for G10 and can be used to prototype the footprint of a circuit board. In addition, by combining the acrylic prototypes with our 2 day turn, in-house silk screening service, companies are now able to procure finished acrylic products with graphics in well under two weeks.” says James Jacobs, President of Rapid Sheet Metal.

Rapid Sheet Metal offers laser cut acrylic in thicknesses from .060” to .250” and stocks acrylic in thicknesses of .060”, .125” and .250” thicknesses. Other thicknesses are available.

Rob Rodriguez, owner of Axis CAD Soultions is Featured Artist on 3DVIA.com

Axis CAD Solutions’ owner, Rob Rodriguez, is the Featured Artist on 3DVIA.com right now (full disclosure – I’m an online community manager for 3DVIA too, and worked with Rob to create the posting).

It’s a great way for him to promote his company to a broader market and help 3DVIA visitors understand more about the manufacturing and architectural uses of 3D models. Check out the full story.

So, if you have some good news to share, send it to me here at SupplierSource and I’ll collect them, post them and let everyone know about the good news from YOU!