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Lamination Plates
Cardel™ lamination plates are precision manufactured to deliver consistent performance and flawless card finishes. With a margin of error as low as two to three microns, they ensure uniform pressure and heat distribution, making them ideal for producing high-quality financial cards, ID cards, and other general-purpose cards.
We produce industry leading standard and bespoke plates in a variety of surfaces like gloss, matte, silk, and a range of technical high security finishes. Our plates can be supplied in hardened formats or with anti-stick coatings. These extend life and offer our customers the ability to reduce cycle times and increase the quantity of cards produced per cycle without loss of yield.
Cardel™ also provides high-quality lamination press pads and cassettes, chip bonding adhesives, pre-laid magnetic stripes, and more for the production of cards.
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Why Choose This Service?
Flexible Material Options
We produce plates in a variety of steel grades and in multiple sizes, thicknesses, and hardness to suit specific customer environments.Lowest Possible Waste
Cardel™ hardened lamination plates are less likely to be damaged in production, this reduces card reject rates that are caused by scratches on the plates and extends plate duty cycle.Positive Financial Benefit
Our customers report tangible financial benefits from the increased yield and reduced waste Cardel plates provide.
Description 
Cardel™ high quality lamination plates are produced to demanding specifications and closely monitored during production to ensure consistency of gloss level and surface roughness between orders and batches. In-house quality checks are regularly made to ensure we supply products of the highest quality. Lamination plates are delivered with protective easy-peel PET coating to protect them during transit and ensure that removal leaves no surface residue. If a customer requests it, we can also despatch plates with foam interleaving only.
Cardel™ customers use our plates to produce a wide range of cards for banking (Mastercard, Visa, CUP), security (identity cards, driving licences, passports), commercial, loyalty, smart and contactless for transit, and other end usages.
The Cardel™ Lamination Plate range includes:
- Cardel Ultragloss UG1™ – a high gloss (both sides) mirror finish plate with no visible surface direction or grain lines. Cardel UG1 plates are available in a range of sizes and thicknesses with or without matt grip borders as required.
- Cardel Ultragloss UG2™ – a medium gloss (both sides) finish plate with no visible surface direction or grain lines. Cardel UG2 plates are available in a range of thicknesses and sizes with or without matt grip borders as required.
- Cardel ISO™ Lamination Plate – a highly consistent silk surface ISO plate manufactured to present a high quality premium finish while ensuring that our customer end products comply with all international ISO standards and perform in line with expectations.
- Cardel USDS™ Lamination Plate – these plates are manufactured with a high quality silk finish that is receptive to Holograms, Thermal printing and Dye Sublimation printing while providing a premium look and feel to the card surface. The glossiness of the finished surface is slightly lower than the Cardel ISO plates.
- Cardel US™ Lamination Plate – a high quality silk finish that provides a premium look and feel to the card surface. The surface roughness of the end products produced from the US plate have a higher roughness level than the Cardel USDS plate and is compatible with all forms of cards other than those used in banking.
- Cardel UM™ (UltraMatt) Lamination Plate – a high quality matt finish that provides a slightly coarse look and feel to the card surface. The surface roughness of the end products produced from the plate has a higher roughness level than the Cardel US plate and is compatible with all forms of cards other than those used in banking.
- Cardel UR™ (UltraRough) Lamination Plate – high quality matt finish that provides a coarse look and feel to the card surface. The surface roughness of the end products produced from the plate has a higher roughness level than the Cardel UM plate and are used extensively in RFID Prelam manufacturing.
- Cardel TH™ through-hardened plates are approximately three times harder than the standard plates that are typically used in card manufacturing. The increased hardness provides extra durability which extends the plate lifetime and reduces waste caused by damaged plates. This is achieved by effectively preventing dents (caused by RFID inlays, etc.) and significantly reducing scratches that occur in the production environment. TH plates are available in gloss and silk variants.
Specification
Dimensions available from 250mm x 250mm to 2500mm x 6000mm
Thicknesses available 0.5mm to 6mm.
Mild to Hardened steel ranging from 120 HV to >900 HV.
Ferritic, Austenitic or Martensitic steel grades available.
Contact Cardel™ sales team for specific product requirement Technical Specifications.
Choose Cardel
Cardel™ is an internationally trusted brand with over twenty-five years’ experience in the supply of goods to lamination sectors globally. An estimated 50% of smart cards made globally involve a Cardel™ product at some point in their manufacture.
We also go beyond supplying premium products – we offer custom solutions tailored to meet your specific needs. From expert advice to hands-on problem solving, our dedicated team works with you every step of the way to ensure exceptional results.
