Method and apparatus for producing a composite body

The invention relates to a method for producing a composite body for a selected one of a plurality of different ID card, value or security document types document type. The method comprising: • compiling a document-type-specific selection of material sheets (302) in a document-type-specific sequence, • creating a sheet of material specifications (300), successively on each of the gathered material sheets (304) each of the immediately following according to the document type specific order sheet of material (302) is fixed so that the relative orientation of the collated sheets of material (302) is fixed to one another, • producing a composite body by laminating the sheet of material specifications (330), wherein the material sheet stitching (300) is subjected to pressure and heat in a predefined manner, • Materialabtrennen by executing a first Materialabtrennvorgangs using ultrasound so that a laminated composite body having a geometric size (502) is created for a first document type.