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Tools for steel rule cutting machines

Flexibility and compatibility for tool deployment

With more than 40 years thermoforming technology experience in the packaging industry (cups, trays, blisters, etc.), Kiefel Packaging offers its customers customized tools of the highest quality. Everything to achieve one goal: your satisfaction and the unique productivity advantage.

We are always looking for the balance between production output, film utilization, easy tool handling and the shortest change over times. We excel through versatility and flexibility, delivering a productivity advantage and the best possible product to our customers.

Kiefel Packaging develops and builds tools for steel rule cutting applications - separate forming and cutting - and combined forming / cutting tools, suitable for all standard steel rule cutting machines and plastic materials such as PP, PS, PE, (R)PET, PLA etc.

We build thermoforming tools for all common thermoforming systems.

KMD Speedformer Series

Forming/Cutting tools

The Kiefel Cut-in-Place (BFS) system enables the production of high-quality plastic packaging with the best price-performance ratio.

These tools are perfect for making trays and lids.

Your Kiefel Benefits:

High cutting accuracy, even for materials with different shrinkage
Cutting knives do not need to be positioned
Low tool costs compared to the conventional forming/cutting system, since no costly profile grinding of the cutting contour is required
Short equipping times: adjustment of a separate cutting station and the time required for changing blades and the punched counterplate is eliminated
High flexibility: all common materials can be processed
Low space requirements: no need for a separate cutting station

Thermoform configurator

The most powerful online tool for thermoforming

Calculate different tool configurations on more than 40 thermoforming machines and determine your (extrusion) output.

This calculation program is a tool to help you calculate:

Product weights against material thicknesses and vice versa

Tool layouts with the number of cavities and material usage for your thermoform machine

Calculate the right information at your convenience. You can calculate the number of cavities on various European machine types in the market. Tool layout and number of cavities are depending on many different parameters as machine type, machine serial number, sheet quality, sheet thickness, product heights, available infrastructure, skill of machine operators, stacking systems or many other variables.

Under some conditions, with reduced space for spreading the sheet or if you are willing to accept a less stable tool, the number of cavities can possibly be increased. In other situations there can be very good reasons to decrease the number of cavities. The Configurator uses standard machine data from machines, material and stacker systems.

Calculate your product at the Thermoforming Configurator here.

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