Plastics Industry Knives & Blades

Apex Shears’ high quality pelletizer blades help our customers increase output by extending production runs between blade changes. We supply a huge range of knives to the plastics industry for strand pelletizers, underwater pelletizers and all types of size reduction technology. 

Every blade is manufactured from high quality traceable steel and our precision manufacturing methods guarantee a sharp, uniform cutting edge and good wear resistance even when faced with abrasive feedstocks.

Apex Shears offers a wide range of Knives and Blades for Plastics Processing Industry. We start with selection of the finest high quality steel grades that are selected with great accuracy. These steel grades range from tough medium alloy tool steels to long life high carbon high chrome steels and special high wear resistant steel grades. We also offer TC (Tungsten Carbide) Knives on request.

Our experienced engineers select the knife material on the basis of your ma¬ chines/equipment and the plastic material being cut. Our Heat Treatment pro¬cesses and Through-Hardening Techniques have been perfected with over 60 years of manufacturing experience to enhance the strength, durability and performance of our knives.

Our Granulator Knives reduce the plastic to a fine uniform granule size to minimize screen clogging. Our Knives precision ground edges and mirrored surface finish provide clean sharp cuts on the most abrasive of plastics. Reli¬ability and wear-resistance increases machine uptime and user profits.

Amongst the common machine makes for  granulating,  pelletizing or  recycling for which we supply our Knives are as follows :

• Alpine Hosokawa
• Alsteele
• Arun
• Ball & Jewell
• Buss Condux
• Concoran
• C.M.G
• Cumberland,
• Entoleter
• Erema
• Folcieri
• Getecha
• Gloucester
• Granutech
• Himalaya
• Herbold
• L.T.M.
• IMS
• Jiangyin Hongda
• Jiangsu Guibao
• Mitts & Merill
• Nelmor
• Nuga
• Nanjing Sunup
• Pallman
• Pimco
• Ramco
• Taylor Stiles
• Young
• Zerma
• Zhangjiagang
• Other OEM Machines.

Knives and Blades for specialized applications can be designed on request.

Apex Shears’ Recycling blades, sometimes called chipper blades, are used to recycle most every material chemically known to man. This is a cutting process involving a square cage rotary motion, which reduces or chips any material to a smaller size, so that it can be processed further.