Meet the Manufacturers, episode 1: General Metal Engraving

This one also incorporates blades, not just the punch blades, but perimeter cuts. So when you want to incorporate hole punches and perimeter shapes, and cross cut blades here,…

NH: Those are perforations?

GK: Yes.

NH: This was made from a big sheet?

GK: Yes. You would run a roll of material as wide as this is through the machine, and this would be the end result. They call that converting. Convert a roll of paper into a variety of paper, foil, film gaskets, tags, labels, cartons, medical devices, parking garage tickets, the whole shebang.

And this is an example of a rotary die that is cutting a film, film is harder to cut, especially metal to metal. It’s cutting quite a large cavity, so I don’t think that there is anybody else in the world that can do that kind of work.

This is a regular kiss cut die.

NH: This is felt!