Die-Cutting Flatbed

  • Island placement – Selectively placing a precut substrate onto a web (roll) in an organized pattern often subject to secondary cutting. (Think band-aid where there is an island of cotton placed in the center of adhesive bandage with release liner and cut to size)...Multi-layer cutting – Tooling can be made with multiple blades, each cutting thru successive layers of stacked layers of substrates. (Consider 3 layers of films stacked on each other with a release liner on bottom – tooling can have blades that cut thru just the 1st film layer, another blade cutting thru the 2nd film layer and a 3rd blade cutting thru all 3 layers kisscuting the liner and a 4th blade that diecuts cuts thru them all). Rule is: The bottom layers must be equal to or harder than the top layers in order to achieve a proper cut thru - otherwise the top layer will need to be precut and laminated in place.

  • Standard dimensional tolerance of +/-.010” - Tolerances are mostly material dependent. For example, a thin stable film will have a much tighter tolerance than a thick soft foam. Rotary tooling is machined generally to +/- .004” on the tool after heat treat, Steel rule dies are typically made to +/- .010” and chem-etch/wire EDM hard tools are +/- .002.
  • High tonnage for more demanding materials – Larger parts and thicker/harder material require more PSI per lineal inch of blade to effectively cut thru the stock. We have up to 80Tons of cutting pressure on our large beam press allows us to cut multiple cavities or single cavity large parts up to 36” x 65” and thick materials up to 4” foams.

  • Accurate indexing to maximize yield and efficiency – We reduce the gap between parts to maximize yield from the input materials, thus reducing your cost. This is done by proper tooling design and accurate material movement (indexing) by the machine.

  • Sheet or roll input feed ability – We can process input material from either a roll or sheet form. This flexibility of roll to sheet or sheet to roll conversion allows us to provide you the finished part if a format that is most useful and permits us to use material in whatever format is available.

  • Efficient for low volume – Our equipment acquisitions have been designed from the start to effectively accommodate the needs of small volume job runs to very large volume. So we can produce 10 pcs or 10 million pieces at competitive prices. Flatbed diecutting is ideal for low to medium volume needs.