Technology

Fecken-Kirfel Skiver

In-house, precise and efficient skiving/cutting machine.
Sheets skived from buns can be supplied from 0.063” to 2.00” thickness, or buns can be skived into sheets using a customer’s own equipment.
Four available ASTM-D-1056 hardness versions of the standard sheet, including one with enhanced fire-retardant additives necessary to meet UL94 V-0 specifications, and a second version with fluorosilicone sponge properties, meeting the requirements of AMS 3323.

Lead times. The new skiving capabilities also in-house, converters will experience even greater expedition of their orders.
The skiver has allowed Bellofram Elastomers to slash lead times for key products to converters to one week or less.
The equipment also allows us to perform toll work, skiving product for other companies.

Flash cutting — more versatile and more flexible than die cut machines — is an automated process that uses a system of reciprocating knives and computer numerical control (CNC) to fabricate parts like silicone gaskets, silicone pads, and flat diaphragms of a variety of rubber and fabric combinations, all with clean edges and precise shapes.
Tolerances are comparable to the waterjet cutting process.
The process involves inputting the desired shape using a computer-aided design interface.

Execute complex shapes more efficiently than die-cutting, without the time and expense of creating a die.
By keeping the process in-house, we accelerate timelines, improve control, and help ensure quality.
Bellofram offers flash cutting consulting services to assist with the shape’s file creation.
We can produce silicone sheet and cut it for the final application instead of simply selling sheets. We become a true one-source resource.
We are able to create diaphragm prototypes in just days, in dimensions up to 60 x 60-inch.
The technology reduces waste for Bellofram Elastomers by 25% because we can reuse waste pieces. Customers also reduce waste by receiving finished pieces, which reduces their own scrap and the expense of managing this conversion process in house.
Because Bellofram Elastomers has rubber in-house and buys in bulk, that means savings and exceptional value that are passed onto customers.