Custom Steel Die Cutting Plates
- Disston provides customized die cutting plates used in die cutting presses in the cutting of box board, card board, tag board, plastic, rubber, felt, sythentic materials, laminated board, and paper in the manufacturing of boxes, holders and cards. Our plates include:
- Press Plates
- Counter Plates
- Back up Plates
- Cylinder Jackets or Tympans
Disston plates insure peak performance on all make diecutting presses and machines – Bobst, Bruno, Everready, Thompson, Zerand, etc.
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Custom die cutting plates used to press and finish fiber, plastic, boxboard, tagboard, synthetic and rubber products
Press Plates
Press Plates are for laminating presses used to press and finish fiber (paper), thin plastic and thin rubber products for shipping. The laminating press adds a coating to the paper or press board for products such as foil on greeting cards and gift boxes. These are thick plates that range from 0.062 inch to 1.0 inch thickness.
- Length: up to 96″
- Width: up to 84″
- Thickness: 0.062 – 1.0 inch
- Hardness: 48-52 HRc.
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Our tympans are made with precision flatness and bent to a radius that meets our client’s specifications. The tympans hardness levels are between 48 & 52 HRc.
Counter Plates
- Counter plates or chase plates are used in the cutting and scoring of boxes. Counter plates are thin flat, round, and hardened plates. Counter plates are also used on die cutting machines that press out large industrial parts such as: refrigerator doors, dishwasher doors, and parts for automobiles.
- Length: up to 96″
- Width: up to 84″
- Thickness: 0.062 – 1.0 inch
- Hardness: 48-52 HRc.
Carbide Saw Blade Blanks – ready for carbide tipping
Disston makes 24 to 96 inch blanks for carbide tipping. Blanks are laser cut with pockets or teeth to customer’s specification. Like our friction and hot saws, all carbide saw blanks are heat treated, Blanchard ground, smithed, and computerized checked for proper tension and run out and balance.
BackUp Plates
Back up plates are soft ground polished plates used to hold the knives for cutting or scoring box board. These plates are also used on die cutting machines. These plates are precision tempered, ground and polished.
- Length: up to 96″
- Width: up to 84″
- Thickness: 0.062 – 1.0 inch
- Hardness: 48-52 HRc.
Custom Cylinder Jackets or Tympans
Used for regular or converted Miehle presses, which cut, crease or score paper or cardboard. Disston jackets are made of a special alloy steel. They are steel plates made and curved to exactly fit the cylinder. All our jackets are made to the same exacting standards as our flat plates.
- Length up to 96″
- Width up to 84″
- Thickness: .085/.093
- Hardness: 34/36 HRc
- Disston Precision builds in quality by using only the finest raw materials and expert workmanship. We use the finest super alloy steel which is made exclusively for Disston Precision. We heat treat our steel to precise hardness up to 52 HRc for optimum toughness, strength, and wear resistance. We grind and polish our press plates to produce the ultimate in parallelism, flatness, and thickness. All dimensions are made to your exact specifications.
All our die cutting plates are custom made of steel. They are commonly used for box making, carton making, card embellishing, and machinery.
Questions?
Contact us to request a quote or check our our FAQs Die Cutting Plates page.