Industrial blades offering a low-cost improvement to the original steel blade with small improvement to life and friction. Lifetime compared to standard steel: x 4
Carbon steel ceramic coated
Industrial blades offering a reasonable improvement in both cut quality, blade life and friction at a modest price and retaining the flexibility of an original carbon steel blade. Lifetime compared to standard steel: x 8
Endurium coated
Industrial blades, produced from CrW (chromium tungsten) alloy, seriously out-perform any other ‘steel’ blade on the market. This translates to a 25% cost advantage, but more importantly, the frequency of blade replacement drops by a factor of four. Less money spent on blades, less machine down-time and less scrap produced gives a supreme saving. Furthermore, the flexibility of the alloy substrate, with its fine ceramic coating, gives maximum fracture resistance even at 62 Rc hardness. Lifetime compared to standard steel: x 16
Solid Tungsten carbide
Has only marginally lower life expectancy and cost than ceramic blades (approx. 15 to 20% on both points). However, the fracture resistance is much improved and is often used to replace ceramic in more demanding situations – short run, stop start operations or on older machines where uniformity of roll is not guaranteed. COF only moderately higher than that of ceramic, good corrosion resistance, less likely to break in demanding situations. Carbide is a tungsten carbide/cobalt powder material (WC/Co) Rockwell hardness HRC 80, fracture resistance good. Lifetime compared to standard steel: x 80
Solid ceramic
By far the best performance of any slitting blade with excellent life expectancy, insignificant coefficient of friction and therefore superior slit quality. Furthermore, we only use HIP-treated ceramic (hot isostatic pressed) so our blades offer much improved hardness and fracture resistance when compared to cheaper ceramic blades. Frequency of blade replacement drops by a factor of 25, resulting in reduced handling, down-time and scrap production. Chemically inert, ie. does not corrode, which makes it ideal for clean room use. Has the lowest coefficient of friction (COF) of all industrial blades giving a cleaner slit edge and minimal heat generation. Ceramic essentially consists of zirconia (ZrO2) – Rockwell hardness HRc 75, fracture resistance low. Lifetime compared to standard steel: x 100
