FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What type of dies do you utilize?
Steel rule dies
What types of materials can you cut with your dies?
There are a wide variety of materials that can be die-cut. They include plastics, foams, adhesives, cork, rubbers, papers, Nomex, vulcanized fiber, and many other materials.
What advantage does Thrust offer over the competition?
We excel in provide defect-free product on time, every time. We have a friendly staff who will work with you on any project you have scheduled. We want to service your needs and do everything we can do succeed in doing that.
What does it mean to be an ISO 9000:2008 certified company?
` ISO 9000:2008 is a quality set of requirements. Thrust Industries has created a quality manual that addresses all the requirements of the ISO 9000:2008 quality standards. A third party registrar has visited our facility and audited our processes against the ISO 9000:2008 standards and our quality manual. Thrust Industries has passed this evaluation, and earned certification from the registrar. At a minimum, we are reviewed by the registrar annually.
What is kiss cutting and/or score cut?
There are certain applications, especially with adhesives, where a product should only be cut through to a certain depth. For example, an adhesive may be composed of a layer of paper release liner, a layer of adhesive, a layer of polyester, a 2nd layer of adhesive and a top layer of paper release liner. A kiss cut would cut through all the layers except the bottom layer of paper release liner. A score cut, in contrast, would cut through just the top layer of paper release liner. See Diagram.
How Precise is your die-cutting?
Typical manufacture of steel rule dies state that the tooling is accurate to +/- .005". Parts produced with these tools typically will run at +/- .010" depending on the material type.