Did you know we can die-cut, butt-cut, sheet and laminate adhesive tapes and self-adhesive materials?
2015 has been a busy year for us already! Amongst many other things we have installed a modular rotary die-cutting machine for conversion of tapes, foam tapes and label materials to pads, gaskets and pieces in any shape size or format.
Not only can we offer any of our own adhesive tapes and tamper evident materials in die-cut format, but we can convert your own free-issue materials.
Rotary die-cutting is a process whereby materials, tapes or labelstock, are unwound, laminated, and particular shapes are cut using a rotary cutting die. Typically we’d laminate a double sided tape or foam tape onto a bottom release liner, then cut the shape required and remove the skeleton or waste surrounding the pads. The cutting die can cut through onto the anvil roller underneath or kiss cut onto the bottom layer, usually a release liner.
We have several magnetic cylinders for thinner materials (up to about 200 micron). These allow us to use flexi-dies, basically a sheet of metal that goes on the magnetic cylinder and is a lot cheaper than using solid dies. We tend to use them for die-cutting our tamper evident labels and the production of security void labels. They can be used for thinner double sided tapes as well. With the more expensive solid rotary dies however we can cut through materials up to 5mm thickness.
For sheeting and butt-cutting we have removable blade dies allowing us to produce sheets or parts in numerous sizes.
Die-cut labels have round corners and spacing between each label on the roll.
Butt-cut labels have square corners and no spacing between each label on the roll
