The present invention provides a matrix for the production of pellets from powdered, granular, fibrous or pre-compressed loose material, said matrix having a plurality of pressure canals passing therethrough through which the loose material is forced and having cutting means which divides up the pressed material emerging from the pressure canals into pellets of predetermined length, wherein, on the exit side of the matrix, there are present flanges running between the pressure canals with a constant distance from one another, between which flanges sections of the cutting means extend up to the exit ends of the pressure canals.