Elektron B2 Ultra

Setting the standard for production ultrasonic cutters

The Elektron B2 Ultra is a two tool ultrasonic cutting system used in specialised applications for ultrasonic cutting and sealing of technical textiles.

The biggest application of the Elektron B2 Ultra is cutting window furnishing materials, screen, sheer and blockout where a clean, fray free cut edge is necessary to meet customer's expectations.

A more niche application is cutting and sealing of MLI (Multi Layer Insulation) materials used in aerospace applications in satellites and spacecraft.

Windows Furnishings, Blinds, Screens and Shades.

The Elektron B2 Ultra cutting system is an Elektron B2 fitted with ultrasonic tooling, sonotrode cooling, digital pressure control, an ultrasonic specific vacuum table and software optimised for the process. This machine is based on nearly 20 years of ultrasonic fabric cutting on cutting tables, when most fabric suppliers said it could not be done.

The Elektron B2 Ultra is productive: users can easily cut almost twice the number of patterns as the most optimistic claims by competitors.

The Elektron B2 Ultra is efficient: Fully flexible autonesting gives fabric savings which are just not possible using manual or automated clamp-type cutting tables. Cutting systems can pay for themselves in months with savings on expensive fabric.

Ultrasonic Cut and Seal of MLI Materials.

The Elektron B2 Ultra may be the only machine of its type, configured to cut multi layer insulation materials. Certainly, several customers have said they have found that the Elektron B2 Ultra is the only machine designed to do the job.

Typically for MLI work, Elektron B2 Ultra cutters are set up with one or more custom ultrasonic tools with profiles designed to seal the MLI matrix and then profile cut it.  Additional tooling can be added to suit an application such as an inkjet print head for precise labelling and annotation and precision blade tools for perforating materials for depressurisation.

Two Bayonet Quick-change Tooling Holders

Bayonet mount ultrasonic tools lock in just like the lens on an SLR camera in few seconds and can be removed for sonotrode changes in seconds.

Crease and Crush Cutting Tools.

Non-powered tools such as crease and crush cut tools and powered tools such as the plunge knife can be fitted to a spare bayonet holder.

Concentric Pen Adaptor for Accurate Marking

Compatible with a wide range of markers (ballpoints, paint markers, etc.), enabling easy marker type changes without affecting seam allowances.

Optional Higher Pressure Tool Axes

For applications requiring extreme pressure, such as cutting and creasing tougher materials, the tool axis can be made higher pressure. As with most Aeronaut cutters, tool pressure is software controlled.

The Future-proof Solution

The Elektron B2 Ultra is a two steered tool holder cutter which for sure will take all the tools you think you need… (and the others too).

Long Service Life

Engineered without compromise, the bayonet tool holder module has been made for almost three decades without any significant change.

Very low maintenance

The Elektron gantry is designed for low maintenance. The drive system is belt driven with no hard-to-replace and rapidly-wearing gears to worry about. 

Ultrasonic and Beyond

Many window furnishing fabrics need an edge seal and ultrasonic tools and the reliable Elektron B2 is the undisputed industry standard normally fitted with one ultrasonic cut and seal tool and a crush-cut tool or creaser in the other tool holder.

Bayonet tools drop in from above the holder and are locked in alignmentwith a 1/4 turn bayonet ring. Tool changes take just a few seconds which is perfect for blade replacements.

The bayonet tool range includes both pneumatic and electric powered reciprocating blade tools, ultrasonic tools for cut and seal, powered rotary blade tools and plunge knife tools.

Almost any unpowered tool be bayonet mounted including 18mm, 28mm and 45mm rotary blades, tangential or drag knives with various depth stops for normal and high friction materials, creasing and scoring tools in a wide range of profiles.

The Elektron B2 Ultra is a specialised machine designed for ultrasonic cutting and sealing. It has wide application in the niche industries which required these techniques.

Aerospace represents peak technical textiles and the Elektron B2 Ultra can be configured to handle a range of materials specific tasks. MLI or Multi-layer Insulation Materials are commonly used in spacecraft for heat and radiation control.

The Elektron B2 Neo may be the only ultrasonic cutter in the world which can be configured to do this exacting type of precision cut and seal work. 

The Elektron B2 Ultra was one of the first automated cutting systems used extensively in window furnishings, partly because of the industry specific software and tooling.  The Elektron B2 Ultra has been cutting window shades, blinds and screens for almost 25 years and hundreds are in use around the world in wholesale blind makers for reliable and cost effective cut and seal operations. 

Aeronaut's Tangent software is the key to reducing fabric waste and Tangent's powerful and user friendly cutter control is essential to increase production. 

Fast and efficient autonesting can pay for a cutting system in months if your fabric is expensive - and isn't waste fabric the most expensive fabric in your business? 

Aeronaut has developed rapid patterning software and CAD plugins to reduce the design to cut time down to a few minutes on complex patterns.

Aeronaut's revolutionary SiliconEye machine vision software can accurately trace and digitise a table full of patterns in seconds.

With Aeronaut's full-table or gantry mounted machine vision systems, aligning cut profiles to patterned fabric or digitally printed material is simple.

Inkjet printing is the fastest way to do pattern numbers, markings and reference text on almost any fabric.

Most of the benefits of automation are obvious, others less so.

• Automation will increase productivity without increasing staff numbers while at the same time reducing waste, mistakes and staff stress at busy times.
• If you don't want growth, automation can let you produce the same number of good quality products with fewer staff.
• Automation reduces your reliability on key workers and conventional skills while attracting another generation of workers who might be entirely happy with computers but less so pushing a pair of scissors.
• Automation adds value to a business since the IP, designs and patterns are all digitised and can be stored off-site.
• Cutting accurate patterns no longer depends on key workers. Aeronaut cutter are easy to operate so many people can run a cutter and saved jobs can be easily  recut.
• Automation means you can do more markings and more markings means faster, more accurate and more reliable assembly. The cutting and marking process may take a while longer but the sewing, welding or bonding operations are much faster.

• Apart from the obvious reason that Aeronaut has some of the best people around in sales, design, software and support…
• Aeronaut cutters are legendarily reliable. We've got dozens of cutters over 20 years old which are still doing the same reliable job for their owners.
• The cost of ownership of an Aeronaut cutter is very low. Upgrades, spares and service are readily available even for 30 year old machines.
• Over a third of new machine orders are from customers who already own at least one Aeronaut cutter, something which applies across the board from NASA contractors to the boat cover maker down the road.
• Aeronaut's cutters are rationally designed machines. As one customer said, "if we'd bought another make of cutter, we'd have spent more on plastic covers than we did on our whole machine".
• Aeronaut cutters may be overbuilt, like a '70s Mercedes and there's a sense of security in knowing that your 3 metre wide cutter is also working somewhere else at 6 metres wide.
• If it's yellow, it doesn't break! 90% of components are made in-house on one of 5 CNC machines, most of which are German 5 axis machining centres. If we made it once, we can make it again.