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There are now two steel rules available that are used for folding of plastic materials.
In the past, there were other options that were less desirable.
Crush creasing works, but if you hit it too hard you risk tearing of the plastic, and the sheets do not stack very flat.
Using plastic crease from Zimmer or Bohler we can make folds in plastic folders and boxes that will not tear after being folded.
The folds will be crisp and the sheets will stack very flat in your delivery.
Once you try this material you will be amazed at how well it makes your products fold.
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SRD along with a dieboard manufacturing company, developed a superior die board that is unlike an other dieboard in the industry.
The board was developed over 5+ years ago and it has been used successfully in some of the largest converting plants in the Midwest for years.
The dieboard properties are ...
- Always flat, it never warps or twists, even if put in rooms that are void of moisture and are not air conditioned.
- Moisture resistant surface to prevent swelling if it gets accidentally wet.
- High stability – meaning it does not shrink and grow like most maple and birch dieboards so it holds a tighter tolerance over the years, as the top and bottom layers of the wood are a composite that does not shrink or grow.
You can rest assured your counters will match the die and your tolerances will stay intact.
- Same price as maple dieboard.
We recommend this dieboard to anyone that is looking for the best in dieboards.
The only disadvantage is that the material is not good for re-ruling.
But in this day and age, even if we get maple dieboards back, we almost always laser new boards.
Like most dieshops, we have found it is more cost effective to laser a dieboard new, than it is to rerule a dieboard.
The purpose of reruling dieboards before the time of lasers was because the cost to saw the dieboard sometimes far outweighed the cost of knifing the die.
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The days of using large nicks that were made from chisels and screwdrivers have passed.
In the last 10 years we have been using dremel type devices to put nicks in steel rule, and SRD now has grinding wheels that can nick as fine as .008 wide, and nicks perfectly vertical.
Now a new steel rule has come out called micro-nick, which is a precisely controlled wire edm nick off .008 wide that is precisely placed either every 1/8” or 1/4” on the rule.
This along with the ultra long bevel of this rule, allows most products under 12pt to be diecut on auto-platen presses without manual nicks, or open edges for power cutting!
When the part is held up individually, it is almost impossible to see the multiple nicks.
This is ideal for those high end products that you just do not want to powercut or trimmer cut, because of the draw of the blade, or the time it takes to do this.
Many diecutting facilities use this rule when they have multiple pages that must line up exactly and, if they were powercut, there might be irregularities.
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SRD uses some of the hardest steel rule available.
Most die shops have a standard or staple rule they use in every die no matter what the material.
At SRD, we select the rule that is right for the job, and in most cases we can outperform our competition by 2 to 1 in die longevity.
This is possible by the use of some of the latest in steel rule technology.
Call for more information on these materials.
Cryogenic frozen steel rule – unbelievable technology that transforms the molecular structure of the rule to last 2 to 3 times longer.
As seen in most tool and die shops that use this technology to make their bits and blades last 5 times longer, this technology has now been applied to steel rule.
Universal – H60 and H75 – hardened tipped 3pt rule with hard or extra hard bodies.
XD700 – Ultra hard 2pt blade that has outperformed any other cutting blade in its class.
Platinum – the newest in technology for combining sharp and ultra hard rule in one type of rule.
It also has a coating on it that is resistant to adhesives and prevents dusting.
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There are two purposes for machine cut or waterjet cut rubber.
- On high speed presses such as Bobst presses, machine cut rubber in conjunction with the proper rule is the only way to achieve the fastest speeds.
We use the newest in rubber available for doing this process.
- When diecutting foam core, magnetic materials, or other materials you need to stay flat and not show indentations of rubber pieces or strips, you need a solid sheet of rubber to fit in between the rules.
The only true way to do this consistently is with machine cut rubber.
You will be amazed at some of the products we have made look perfect that in the past would have been impossible.
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