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Hyde Makes Cutting Knives for Plastic Industry

Written by Hyde | Sep 26, 2016 7:51:00 PM

Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions manufactures cutting knives for the plastic industry.


The plastic industry is one of the biggest in the world. Plants that fabricate, or process, plastic are found just about everywhere.

Where you find the plastic industry, you’ll also find knives. After all, something has to cut, trim, and slice the plastic into the right shapes. And where you find knives, you’ll find Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions.

Hyde IBS has been manufacturing cutting knives for the plastic industry for decades. Many of the blades Hyde makes are used in machines. These machines do everything from compound virgin plastics, to process plastic products, to recycle scrap material.

Here are some of the machine knives Hyde manufactures for the plastic industry:

  • Blow molding knives
  • Rotors for strand pelletizing
  • Knives for under-water pelletizing
  • Pelletizer bed knives and rotor knives
  • Granulator knives
  • Shredder knives
  • Miscellaneous wear parts

Compounding, processing and recycling present real challenges for those in the plastic game. To be profitable, you have to be efficient. To be efficient, you need high quality cutting knives.

Hyde’s long and illustrious history has provided them with a plethora of experience and knowledge on application engineering. Hyde can design and/or recommend cutting knives that will keep your machines up and running.

We know that shutting down your operations to repair cutting knives is unacceptable. It costs your business money and adversely affects your bottom line.

So where do you start? Well, you start by telling Hyde about your plastic cutting challenges. Then, we’ll come up with solutions.

Why?

Hyde does more than make knives. Hyde provides solutions.

Hyde knows how to manipulate elements like edge style, bevel angle, edge thickness, finish, hone technique, and flatness to your advantage.

Hyde’s in-house production capabilities means they can make just about any shape you can design and can do so with consistent quality and without expensive tooling.

Hyde monitors tolerances very closely. Right out of the box, Hyde’s machine knives are ready to go. They are very easy to set and tune. Your machines will be up and running in no time.

It doesn’t matter if your knives are made out steel, stellite, or ceramic, Hyde only uses the best materials. Many of the materials we use, we keep in stock. That way, we’re ready to make your cutting knives as soon as you give us the go-ahead.

As you can see, if you’re in the plastic industry, you need Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions. We manufacture blades that improved performance and decrease downtime.

In other words, we make cutting knives that save you money.