General Metal Engraving

Turnaround times are critical in today’s package-printing world. Couple quick turnaround with the demand for shorter runs, and your press operators will be switching tools almost constantly. Diecutting is an integral part of the entire printing process and can impact the speed at which you can fulfill print orders. Just as diecutting impacts the speed of your print job, external forces, such as consolidation, globalization, new substrates and shorter runs, affect the ­diecutting market. “The label printing industry as a whole has been changing rapidly in recent years,” says Frank Hasselberg, executive vice president, Kocher + Beck USA. “These changes also have a huge

If you ask die manufacturers and converters what the most important emerging trend in the diecutting market is, you’ll understandably get a variety of answers. This market is as diverse as the applications that use dies in their finishing processes. The name of the game if you’re a converter or die manufacturer these days is adaptation. Gone is the separation of church and state between large-volume and small-volume diecutting operations. Now, large volume converters can take those last minute jobs and use lasers on their presses to run the smaller jobs. Die manufacturers are also learning to adapt. Rotary die makers must address

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