Micro-perforation on your web press

Perforation is the finish that sends web work off the line. A coupon, a betting slip, a reply form or a ticket needs a tear line down the web, but it also needs to stay strong and flat for everything that happens afterwards: rewinding, sheeting, folding, packing. Perforate it badly and the web distorts, the stack bulks and the downstream kit jams. Perforate it offline and the speed advantage that won the job disappears.

A Technicrease cassette perforates in the line. Our fine, flat micro-perforating devices cut against a nylon sleeve rather than bursting the web against steel, so the perforation lies flat, holds its strength through the rest of the process, and still tears smoothly by hand at the end of it.

One converter needed exactly this on a Hunkeler line: machine-direction micro-perforation that maintained sheet strength and flatness for continued processing, but tore smoothly later. Two of our devices in a cassette kept the whole process inline with zero loss of speed.

Before that, they believed the only answer was a six-figure OEM finishing system, which is a great deal of capital and a long wait for return on investment for a single machine-direction finish. That is the calculation this changes: the finish stays on the press, and the work you had to decline becomes work you can quote for.