Heat Sealing

Heat sealing joins two or more pieces with a seam that’s as strong as—or stronger than—the original material. Hygienic Fabrications & Filters' Sheboygan, Wisconsin, operation offers a variety of heat sealing processes, such as bar sealers and rotary sealers. Contact our materials experts to determine which heat sealing service is best for your project.

Slitting & Rewinding

Custom roll slitting enables you to limit material waste. Custom-width slitting enables you to accurately fit your material into your design without additional fabrication. We can slit your product with straight cut edges or pinked edges. We are able to slit substrates with or without adhesive.

Hygienic Fabrics & Filters' Sheboygan, Wisconsin, slitting and rewinding department has numerous industrial state-of-the-art high-speed slitting and rewinding machines that enable us to convert material at high speeds and produce quality reworked material with tremendous accuracy. Material can be slit to specific custom widths and lengths onto a range of core diameters. We can unwind, slit, and rewind a variety of materials such netting, woven, nonwoven, plastic, rubber, extruded films, paper, adhesive-backed materials, and more.

Our diversified equipment processes various grades of film, laminates, nonwoven materials, and customer-supplied proprietary materials. Hygienic Fabrics and Filters also provides consignment slitting services for customer-supplied materials that are compatible with our machines

Sheeting

Our Sheboygan, Wisconsin, high-speed, automated sheeting services can be used on thin materials with tight tolerances. We can also sheet materials that are adhesive coated on one or both sides. We have the ability to place kraft paper liners between sheets to prevent wrinkles or static cling that may occur during processing. Pre-sheeted materials save customers time and money. We sheet small prototype orders as well as large quantity orders.

We are able to work with a wide range of materials including adhesive-coated tapes, films, woven fabrics, nonwovens, netting, silicone, polyethylenes, and polypropylenes. We offer top-quality sheeting services that meet high industry standards. We serve multiple industries such as industrial, chemical, food, aerospace and plastics. Contact Hygienic Fabrics & Filters' Sheboygan, Wisconsin, office today to learn more about our advanced sheeting capabilities.

Industrial Sewing

Both our Lanark, Illinois, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, facilities offer complete industrial contract sewing services to meet your needs. Following is a partial list of our sewing department capabilities:

• Single and Double Needle Stitching
• Chain, Lock, and Overlock (Merrow) Stitching
• Capable of making Extended-Length Bags
• Seam Welding and Seam Tapping
• Standard and Custom Bags
• Specialty Cheese Bandages 

 Following is a partial list of materials with which we have a long history of experience:

• Felts
• Wovens
• Elastic
• Zippers
• Nonwovens
• Membranes
• Ballistic Nylons
• Vinyl
• Plastic
• Mesh
• Velcro

Die Cutting

Hygienic Fabrics & Filters' Sheboygan, Wisconsin, operation specializes in custom steel rule die cutting of plastic films, netting, adhesive tapes, fabrics, and silicone rubber. From simple to intricate parts and large format to small prototype runs, we can die cut parts to tight tolerance specifications. We can produce gaskets, seals, shims, gap fillers, washers, discs, and squares, and we specialize in cut parts directly from customer supplied drawings.

Hygienic Fabrics and Filters offers rapid prototyping and short lead times as well as special packaging for medical products. Our state-of-the-art equipment, cutting-edge technology, and highly qualified and experienced staff distinguish us from the competition.

The steel rule die is the heart of die cutting. Formed metal blades are positioned in a wooden board to form a “cookie cutter,” which enables perfect duplication of your parts within .020″ every time. Complex shapes, stars, circles, and many different patterns are possible with a steel rule die. Using steel rule dies, we can die cut foam, sheet plastic, corrugated plastic, chipboard, fabric, rubber, felt, cork, thin metals, wood, acrylic, composites, fiberglass, magnets, sponge, custom die cuts or any other flat material normally found in the industry.

Hygienic Fabrics & Filters can use customer-supplied steel rule dies or order a steel rule die for the job based on a dimension drawing. The tooling cost to create the die will be separately listed in your quote from Hygienic Fabrics & Filters.

All of the products we cut require a very clean production environment and perfect packed appearance. We take care to follow all instructions for cutting and packaging regardless of job size. Hygienic Fabrics and Filters provides precision die cutting services supporting tight tolerances, small and large part sizes, and various production volumes. Here, at our Made in the USA manufacturing facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, we provide precision die cutting services using high-quality tooling and state-of-the-art equipment. Hygienic Fabrics & Filters can die cut materials such as: 

• Membranes
• Sponge and Foam
• Solid Elastomers
• Plastics and Film
• Silicone Membranes
• EMI/RFI Shielding Materials
• Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
• Electrical Insulation
• Customer-Supplied Materials
• Nylon
• Cheesecloth
• Nonwoven
• Crinoline

Rubber Gaskets

There are literally hundreds of materials from which gasket can be cut. The most common gasket materials are neoprene, silicone and foam rubber. Buna is another common type of gasket material; it is used for applications exposed to oils.

Hygienic Fabrics & Filters' Sheboygan, Wisconsin, operation offers cost-competitive custom die cut gaskets. Our custom die cutting capabilities include manufacturing seals for any industrial, hobby, OEM, military, energy, medical or transportation firm large or small.

Once a suitable material has been found, we will work with your design to create a steel rule die. The steel rule die will be laser cut to meet your exact shape and specifications. Steel rule dies can produce thousands of parts, depending on the material. The more parts that are cut using the die, the lower your piece price because the cost of the die is amortized over more parts. Following is a partial list of materials we can cut using steel rule dies.

• Fabric
• Burlap
• Canvas
• Cotton
• Felt
• Flannel
• Gore-Tex®
• Muslin (fabric)
• Polyester (fabric)
• Velvet
• Wool
• Metal
• Aluminum
• Brass
• Copper
• Paper
• Cardboard
• Tissue
• Plastic
• Acetate Acrylic
• Ethylene
• Polyethylene
• Polypropylene
• Polyurethane
• PVC
• UHMW
• Rubber
• ABS
• Buna-N Rubber
• Butyl
• Cellulose
• ECH
• EPDM
• Foam
• Gum Rubber
• Hypalon®
• Latex
• Neoprene
• Nitrile (rubber)
• Perfluoroelastomer
• SBR
• Silicone Sheeting
• Sorbothane
• Sponge
• Misc
• Fiberglass
• Foam Core
• Graphite
• Lexan
• Magnet Materials
• Masonite
• Polycarbonate
• Shim Stock
• Teflon®
• Velcro
• Vinyl 
• Wood

Clean-Room Services

The Sheboygan, Wisconsin, location of Hygienic Fabrics & Filters maintains an ISO Class 6-compliant clean room to ensure high-quality products for medical, filtration, and electronic components. 

Hygienics Fabrics & Filters can do assembly, packaging, die cutting, custom slitting, subassembly, heat sealing in the clean room.

Clean Room Die Cutting. Clean room die cutting combines the speed and precision of die cutting with reduced contamination, a priority for medical, filtration, and electronics applications.

Applications for Cleanroom Die Cutting:

• Medical and Electronic Device Components
• FDA Elastomers and Silicones
• Foams, gels, and adhesives
• Filtration and packaging

Contact us to talk with a member of our expert staff to learn how we can help you with our clean room services.

Finishing Services

Whether you require cutting, sewing, or packaging, every step required for your project is offered inhouse at our Sheboygan, Wisconsin, facility. This allows us to easily handle high-volume orders while ensuring quick turnarounds and superior quality — even when working on complex, specialty, or brand-new products.

Assembly/Subassembly

We take your project from start to finish with the simplicity and ease of a one-stop shop. For product assembly applications, our Sheboygan, Wisconsin, team works closely with clients to ensure a final product that meets their exact needs. Backed by skilled technicians and top-of-the-line equipment, we’ll assemble your project with the utmost attention to detail.

Assembly/Subassembly

Operations should be lean and hassle-free. The Sheboygan, Wisconsin, operation offers packaging services that enable customers to focus on their core products and processes to grow their businesses. Packing, kitting, labeling, warehousing, and just-in-time delivery, are examples of services that we customize to meet requirements of our customers. Pair our clean room cutting, sewing, sheeting, and die cutting services with clean room packaging to maintain contaminant-free cleanliness from start to finish.