ROTARY DIE-CUTTING EXPERTISE — The combined 80 years rotary die-cutting and converting experience of our Highly-Trained Engineers enables us to build or enhance our own rotary die cutting equipment. This expertise provides advantages in flexibility and affordability, which enable us to fine-tune our die cutting equipment with controls and capabilities that are more meaningful to your product specs and application needs.
CONTROLLED ROOM DIE-CUTTING ENVIRONMENT
Most of our products must adhere to medical device component manufacturing standards, requiring controlled environment throughout one or more phases of their process development.
BENEFITS OF ROTARY DIE-CUTTING
Rotary die-cutting offers several distinct advantages, including controlled depth of cut, kiss-cutting, accurate cutting, high rate of processing speed, consistent tight registry, greater productivity, less scrap and faster setups. Also, due to materials being fed from rolls, there is less handling, which reduces the opportunities for product contamination.
BENEFITS OF PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING
For polymeric fabrication processing, polymer melts have a high viscosity, which requires high pressure to force the polymer melt into the hollow mold's cavity. The primary advantage of using injection molding is the ability to create complex designs of unlimited shapes and sizes. Additional advantages include: high production rate, repeatability within tolerances, little to no part finishing, minimal labor, minimum scrap loss and ability to process a wide range of materials. Polymers most commonly used are ABS, Acrylic, PP, HDPE, Polyethylene, Polystyrene, PUR, PVC, TPU's and many more.
LAMINATION AND MULTI-LAYERED LAMINATION
For joining similar or dissimilar materials, lamination is the method incorporated into the manufacturing "converting" process. CBL can laminate most combinations of materials, such as film, foil, foam, paper, metals - with and without adhesives. Adhesives that can be used in the assembly process can include UV curing adhesive, hot melts as well as many medical or industrial PSA's. Depending on your production requirements, die-cutting and sheet/roll converting are available.
DETAILED ATTENTION. As many of the products we manufacture are consumer end-user medical products, we must apply very careful attention to physical details to ensure that each product maintains a perfect appearance.
HUMIDITY-CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT
Some production requirements may demand a temperature or humidity controlled environment during their manufacturing operation to ensure product stability and performance. Some products that require our manufacturing and processing in a controlled environment are moisture-sensitive.
One such product manufactured by CBL is an aluminum "Pericardial Edge Strip", which is sealed in a plastic sheet. When sealing the pericardial strip in plastic, the relative humidity (RH) requirements of the material require a humidity-controlled environment because some materials or substrates require a less than 20% humidity environment. CBL's room can go as low as 4% if needed.
When the effects of higher humidity levels in a close tolerance environment will be detrimental to your product's quality or development processing schedule, contact CBL to prove our commitment to your moisture-sensitive needs.
Controlled Room Services
- Rotary Die-Cutting
- Die-Cutting
- Punch Press
- Plastic Injection Molding
- Multi-Layered Laminations
- Island Placement
- Printed Labels for Pouches
- Slitting
- UV Cured Adhesives
- Patented Rotary Heat Sealing
CONVERTING PROCESSES AND METHODS
Converting Biophile Laboratories offers a complete range of cutting and converting systems, from a simple punch press to a complex, multi-component manufacturing process. With our commitment to your success, selection of punch pressing or other cutting equipment is based on our engineering team's examination of your product's development process, quality controls, testing criteria and application.
ROTARY DIE-CUTTING
Rotary die-cutting involves using a smooth hard cylinder (anvil) that crushes materials against the blades on a cylindrical die to achieve a precise, consistent cut at high speeds.
DIE-CUTTING
Our flatbed die cutters use two parallel platens and a steel rule die. As the platens exert pressure on the die, we can create parts with a very close tolerance - as close as .015". Read ThomasNet article on "Forming Die Cutting Tools".
PUNCH PRESS
Our inline production punch presses use a precision dieset, producing clean, burr-free parts and are "controlled room" safe. Materials include foam, metal, polymers, and foils...
SHEET AND ROLL CONVERTING
Our controlled environment serves the contract slitting, laminating, and in-line converting needs for a variety of product lines in medical, industrial, and printing markets. Products include label stocks, private labels, adhesive films, bandage-like materials, water filters...
PLASTIC (PVC) INJECTION MOLDING
For thermoplastics, our injection molding machining process converts pelleted (or granular) raw plastic into a final molded part. Both high production and R&D prototype parts are available.
Additional Converting Services: Roll-to-Roll Die Cutting, Adhesive Die Cutting, Label Die Cutting, Rotary Progressive Die Cutting, Island Placement and Multi-layered Laminations.