By Cassandra Balentine
Finishing systems rely on a variety of consumables, like cutting blades and bits, to handle an array of tasks in one machine.
When it comes to investing in a finishing system it is important to consider these consumables up front.
Here we highlight providers that offer OEM or third-party finishing tools.
AXYZ
AXYZ offers a variety of different accessories to maximize productivity or to reduce maintenance costs. Its cutting head options range from knife tools to saws.
Cutworx USA
Cutworx USA sells a range of bits, blades, perforating knives, as well as conveyor belts and mats for its Apex Digital Flatbed Cutters.
Flatbed Tools
Flatbed Tools celebrates over 25 years of industry experience and a portfolio of industry patents. Flatbed Tools stands at the forefront of digital cutting technology. It specializes in providing comprehensive solutions to enhance your cutting processes, offering top-tier consumables and unmatched service support for major OEM digital flatbed cutters including Colex, Kongsberg, Multicam, Summa, Zünd, and a variety of CNC routers. Its product lineup, features premium-quality blades, bits, conveyor belting, and routing underlayment and is tailored to meet the specific needs of each machine and their production environment.
Gerber Technology
Gerber Technology offers a complete line of the finest router, engraving, and ADA bits in the industry. Each of its bits are crafted for precision and durability. Specially engineered for a range of materials, these cutters are designed to deliver the highest performance possible, to meet or exceed your demanding expectations.
Hartlauer Bits
Hartlauer Bits is a leader in helping with routing needs. According to the company, if they don’t stock it, they promise to help get it or it help you find it. It will ship your router bits anywhere in the U.S.
Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems
Kongsberg offers cutting consumables, including high-performance knife blades, router bits, crease wheels, and milling accessories.
Kongsberg’s tooling solutions enhance productivity and streamline finishing operations. The VariAngle Tool enables cutting at any angle between zero and 60 degrees without manual adjustments, eliminating the need for frequent tool changes. According to the company, this increases productivity by at least 25 percent and allows for the creation of complex three-dimensional designs in corrugated and display materials. Another tooling solution is the CorruSpeed Tool, which is designed for high-speed cutting of corrugated board without oscillation, reducing processing time while enhancing cut edge quality.
It offers a range of milling bits and router blades—over 100 different knife blades to choose from, available in both single- and double-flute variations. Its tools are engineered to deliver superior precision across diverse materials, such as corrugated boards, folding cartons, acrylic, foam, rubber, aluminum composite material, wood, and other rigid materials.
Kongsberg’s consumables are crafted from high-grade tungsten carbide, ensuring longer tool life, reducing replacement frequency, and improving cut quality while reducing rework and material waste. These consumables are also optimized for cutting speeds further increasing overall equipment productivity, allowing print providers to enhance efficiency.
For applications requiring higher performance and productivity, Kongsberg also offers routing bits and blades that contain a unique C2 coating. This coating is thinner while still providing an exceptionally sharp, hard, smooth, and durable surface for superior cutting, which results in a remarkable 60 percent reduction in friction compared to standard diamond-like coating DLC coatings, allowing it to last longer and enhancing efficiency, which in turn means less power consumption.
This C2 coating is also 100 percent biocompatible, which means it is approved for food, medical, and dental applications.
Laguna Tools
Laguna Tools has been leading the industry in woodworking innovations for over 40 years and continues to challenge the industry with new advancements. The main focus of Laguna Tools is to provide solutions for its customers’ needs. Yes, it sells machines but ultimately its sells products that solve simple to complex issues. Whether you are the consummate woodworker crafting a work of art to pass down to your grandson or a production manager who demands precise, quality, and consistent parts.
Summa
Summa is recognized for its high-quality vinyl cutters, finishing flatbeds, and laser cutters, which provide companies in printing, sign making, textile, industrial, and packaging industries with the most innovative cutting solutions. The company offers a variety of cutting tools for its F and V series flatbed cutters.
Superior Carbide Cutting Tools
Superior Carbide & Helicon Graphics offers third-party cutting consumables, service, parts, and fully refurbished large format digital flatbed cutting tables. Its products are made to meet or exceed OEM quality standards.
It is the largest independent supplier of blades, router bits, belts, and underlay in North America. Its combined 50-plus years of knowledge and experience in this industry, combined with its customer-service-first mindset, and reputation of quality tools at a great price set its apart from the competition.
Superior Carbide & Helicon Graphics carries a massive array of blades and router bits for any flatbed cutting application and our tools work with machines from Colex, DYSS, iEcho, Kongsberg, MCT/Versatech, Mimaki, MulitCam, Summa, Zünd, and more.
It is a one-stop shop for everything customers need and provides free remote technical support for all its customers, plus it can do in-person services like preventative maintenance, installs, de-installs, and more.
VTX Tools
VTX Tools is a third-party provider. However, VTX is a unique case, considering the founders go all the way back to the invention of the i-Cut software that revolutionized the large format digital print and finishing industry. It was also responsible for bringing most of these top, European made cutting tables to the U.S. market in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
VTX Tools offers the highest quality and machine tested blades, bits, cutting underlays, and much more for every type of flatbed cutting technology in the industry. And when new technologies are introduced, it develops cutting tools for those too. More specifically, it offers high quality, tungsten carbide blades and router bits, with many different variations for quality, longevity, and finish.
The company’s product innovation doesn’t stop at blades and bits. It also brought multiple, new low-cost cutting surfaces to the industry, including the VTXtra Grip anti-slip perforated routing mat to allow for the most amount of holding power while routing, and the soon-to-be released Blade Suede underlay that helps prolong the life of a high-quality felt cutting mat/conveyor belt material.
In addition, it offers spindle replacements, full conveyor belt replacements, routing underlays, and more. It also offers on-site service.
X-Edge Products
In addition to its flagship X-Edge Razor, X-Edge Products creates tools designed to excel in every CNC router application. Its product line has expanded dramatically to include router bits, oscillating and drag knives, tool holders, collets, coolants, cleaning, and maintenance items. Its knives and router bits are made with high-grade solid carbide that are held to the highest standard. X-Edge Products is dedicated to helping its customers achieve the best possible performance and edge quality results never before seen on a CNC router.
Zund America, Inc.
As an OEM, Zünd offers a range of precision-engineered, high-quality consumables designed specifically for Zünd digital cutting systems. This includes every type of consumable used in conjunction with all processing methods available with cutting/routing systems, including blades, bits, creasing tools, pen/marking inserts, cutting underlays, and conveyor belts.
As a systems manufacturer, Zünd puts a great deal of effort into the design and development of each tool in order to maximize the overall performance of Zünd cutting equipment—where literally every single component matters. Zünd holds patents on many designs, meaning we have tooling and consumable items that are exclusive to Zünd and not available from any other sources. Because it controls every aspect of the manufacturing process, its able to ensure quality at the highest level possible, an advantage that is generally not available to third-party resellers.
Its blades and bits are marked with Zünd insignia, part numbers, and batch numbers to ensure quality, consistency, as well as traceability.
Jun2025, Digital Output
