Suitable for punching and cutting non-metallic materials such as foam materials, cardboard, textiles, plastic materials, leather, rubber, packaging materials, flooring materials, carpets, fiberglass, cork, etc. with the help of machine generated punching force through a knife die.

Cutting equipment with high degree of automation includes computer-controlled mobile head cutting machines, laser cutting machines (oscillating cutting tools), high-pressure water beam cutting machines, and computerized cutting machines. In addition, USM in Italy and the UK produce a projection cutting machine, which is equipped with oscillating cutting tools and visual observation devices on the cutting table for contour scanning of leather or projection on leather to guide the cutting worker to arrange the nesting of cutting samples on leather.