Welcome!

Custom Cutting Technologies has been in business since 1999.  In that time, we have become the CD industry's preferred source for CD business cards, shaped CD ROM discs, and "die cut" CD ROM discs (we don't use a die). At CCT, we pride ourselves on turnaround time, quality, and outstanding customer service and communication.  With a plant cutting capacity of over 90,000 discs per day, we are the company to turn to for any size project.  Over 95% of all of the jobs we receive are turned within 24 hours of receipt, and a majority of those are turned within one business day.  We understand that your projects are time-sensitive and that a day late is too late.  Let us know when your CDs are coming, and we will schedule production time for your order.

We are the custom-shape leader.

CCT is also the industry leader in the creation of shaped CD-ROM discs.  There are other shaped-CD producers that feel that having three or four points of contact is a sufficient guideline for producing shaped discs.  While this may have been true in the days of the 4x CD-ROM drive, it isn't true today.  A poorly-designed shaped disc are almost always noisy.  Very poorly-designed shaped discs can destroy a drive in a matter of seconds.

The standards for making CD's are now tight enough that having too much silkscreen on one side can actually throw the disc out of specification.   Sony now makes a machine for replicators to test balance of production optical discs.  Our Texas-shaped disc (at right) passed this machine's test at the major industry trade show. 

We know that the appeal of a shaped disc is to get the end user to drop the disc into their CD-ROM drive and look at the content.  But we feel that that generating an interesting shape is only half of our job.  The second half of our job is to make sure that the disc functions reliably so that the end user can focus on the content being displayed.  If the end user keeps looking over at the drive and wondering if it is going to break, the marketing piece obviously loses its effectiveness. 

Since we opened our doors, we have processed all of our custom-shapes in the same way.  Each disc shape that we offer is balanced to a theoretical center of gravity of under 10 microns (0.01 mm) using state of the art 3D CAD programming.  Please feel free to contact us about designing a custom shape for your shaped CD ROM project.  Here is a link that tells you a little more about the process. 

We are not for everyone.

At CCT, we are not a bunch of marketing guys who decided to start cutting CD business cards.  We aren't a CD replicator that decided to buy a CD cutting machine and begin cutting CD's.  Custom Cutting Technologies is first and foremost a precision plastics machine shop.  We produce plastic parts for the electronics, automotive, medical and aerospace industries.   We also happen to cut a great deal of compact discs into CD business cards and custom shaped CD's. 

Because we don't want any part of marketing or replicating CD business cards, we are strictly a service bureau for companies in the CD industry.  Our customers must provide us with discs that are ready for cutting into CD business cards or shaped CDs.  We do not deal with end users, and therefore do not compete with our customers.  Look at the web sites of other cutting services available to you.  They are marketing directly to companies that want to purchase shaped or business card CD's.  They are competing with you for your customers.

If you are an end user, please feel free to look around and then click on "Refer Me" on the "Contact Us" Page.  Let us know a little about your project, and we will refer you to one of our qualified customers who can help you produce your CD business cards or custom shaped CDs.