What are circular slitter blades?
Sheets can be cut into strips or smaller sheets of the desired width using circular slitter blades. These blades are extremely adaptable and can be used to cut paper, textiles, and metal, among other things.
High-carbon steel is used to make circular slitter blades that can be mounted on rotary machines. Blades for circular slitters come in a variety of sizes and shapes to fit a variety of materials and applications. The most well-known kind of roundabout slitter sharp edge is the round blade, a roundabout plate with a sharp edge that is utilized to slice through the material.
Blades with sharp cutting edges are known as circular slitter blades or circular slitting knives. They typically have low cutting points and no teeth. Circular slitter blades are mostly used for slitting-type cutting, as the name suggests.
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CUSTOM INDUSTRIAL BLADES
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Personalised circular blades can be used to cut, slit, perforate, rewind, shear, and much more.
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Please have a look at some of the circular blades and knives that we frequently produce below.
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CIRCULAR, STRAIGHT, PUNCH, AND CUSTOM BLADES
Circular Blades
Finetech Engineering produces precision circular blades in almost every shape and size possible using almost any material on the market.
Straight Blades
Finetech is equipped to produce industrial blades with precision, regardless of length, with the capacity and sophisticated ability to handle jobs up to 2500mm.
Advantages of using circular blades
The use of circular blades has several benefits:
- Greater efficiency in cutting through materials: When cutting through materials, circular blades can produce a cleaner cut and use less energy than straight blades.
- Compared to other blade types: circular blades produce less waste because they create a narrower aperture, which reduces material loss while cutting.
- Simpler to use (more stability): A circular blade requires less effort to manipulate since it merely needs to be rotated to the required speed before being used to cut through material. Furthermore, it is far simpler than using a saw or knife, which may be very challenging to operate.
How circular blades are manufactured?
- Cutting: The first step in making these blades is to cut a metal sheet into the appropriate shape. A CNC machine is usually used for this technique.
- Heating: The blade is next subjected to a procedure known as heat treatment, which involves quickly cooling after heating to a very high temperature in order to harden and strengthen the steel.
- Brazing is an optional method for joining tiny metal bits to circular, toothed blades.
- Sharpening: The blade needs to be honed to get rid of any flaws after it has reached the correct shape. further to produce the bevel, the sharp edge of the blade. Ultimately, the edge of the blade is sharpened even further by grinding.
- Coating: To aid increase resistance to wear and corrosion, the blade tips can also be coated with various materials.