Ameritek Just Installed the IntegraALL—and Turned a 9-Hour Job into a 2-Hour Job
When a shop has been making dies in this country since 1971, you don’t get to coast. You either keep pushing the edge or you fall behind it.
Ameritek, based in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been pushing the edge for over 50 years. Family-owned. BOBST Certified Die-Maker. A go-to name for serious folding carton and corrugated work across the Southeast and beyond. The kind of shop your customers trust because they’ve earned it, year after year, die after die.
And the team at Ameritek just did it again.
They’re now running the new Serviform IntegraALL on their shop floor.
This is the third major upgrade we’ve installed with them (just in recent years!)—following the LineA and the DieMilla—and it’s part of a pattern that says everything about how Ameritek operates: they don’t wait for the industry to force their hand.
They make the move before they have to.
A Quick Callback to Johnson
Two weeks ago we shared that Johnson Steel Rule Die became the first shop in the USA to run the IntegraALL. That was a milestone for the industry.
Ameritek is right there with them.
When you see two of the most respected die shops in the country make the same call within weeks of each other, that’s not a coincidence. That’s a signal. The shops that take their craft seriously are upgrading their rule processing… and they’re upgrading it now.
The Problem Ameritek Was Solving
Every die shop knows the pain of custom combo rule: The kind of specialty rule a job needs today, not next week when the order ships in.
Before the IntegraALL, that work at Ameritek took nine hours.
Nine hours of moving rule between machines.
Nine hours of operators tied up on workflows that should have taken a fraction of that time. Nine hours that didn’t ship dies, didn’t move revenue, and didn’t help the team get home for dinner.
With the IntegraALL, that same work is now done in two hours.
Nine hours becomes two. That’s not a tune-up. That’s a different shop.
What the IntegraALL Actually Does
The IntegraALL is Serviform’s all-in-one rule processing machine. Straight cutting, creasing, perforating, cut-crease, and Lasercrease rule—all in one piece of equipment. Three next-generation multifunction cartridges run multiple operations at once, including punching, bridging, and chamfering. No machine switches. No handoffs. No waiting on specialty stock orders.
For a shop like Ameritek—running at BOBST certified standards, supporting folding carton and corrugated customers who don’t have patience for slow turns—that consolidation is the whole game.
It’s the difference between managing your rule inventory and making the exact rule you need, the moment you need it, to the exact spec the job requires.
Why This Upgrade Fits the Ameritek Pattern
This is the part that matters. The IntegraALL didn’t land at Ameritek by accident. It landed there because the team at Ameritek has built a habit of strategic upgrades.
When they brought in the LineA, they retired a patchwork of inconsistent benders and unlocked roughly 6x the efficiency with uniform, repeatable results. (Watch the LineA story.)
When they added the DieMilla, they brought milling precision in-house and tightened their entire prepress workflow.
Now with the IntegraALL, they’ve eliminated one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in custom combo rule production.
Each upgrade closes a gap. Each one makes Ameritek faster, more self-sufficient, and more capable of saying yes to the job another shop would turn away.
That’s leadership. Not the kind you put on a wall. The kind that shows up in lead times, in quote response, in the way a customer feels when Ameritek picks up the phone.
What This Means for Ameritek’s Customers
Here’s the bottom line for the folding carton and corrugated brands who rely on Ameritek: the work is going to ship faster. The combo rule on your dies is going to be cleaner, more consistent, and built to the exact spec your job calls for. And the team behind it is going to be less burned out, less rushed, and more available to solve the problems that actually need a human in the loop.
That’s what a strategic upgrade looks like from where the customer is sitting.
The Bigger Picture
We talk a lot about being a partner, not just a vendor. This is what that looks like in practice. Ameritek didn’t buy a machine. They made a decision about how they want to compete for the next decade. We’re proud to be part of that decision—just like we were proud to be part of the LineA install, the DieMilla install, and every other machine install, not to mention, service calls in between.
Congratulations to the entire Ameritek team. You set the standard, and you keep raising it.
If you’re still running custom combo rule across multiple machines, or turning away jobs because the workflow is too painful to staff, the IntegraALL is the conversation worth having.