Rotary Knives

Whether you call them shears, slitters, cutters, blades, or knives, we understand the metal processing industry and your needs. Bach Knives has 60+ years of metallurgical and field experience to match the right tooling specifications to your application.

Slitter Knife
Carbide Slitter Knife

Slitter Knives

Our slitter knives are manufactured using state of the art materials and the latest technology and production techniques. We start with the highest quality European forged material, vacuum harden and triple temper to Rockwell held to ±1, then finish with lapping and polishing to produce the finest metal slitter knives. Our production facilities allow us to produce knives with a flatness, parallelism, surface finish and tolerance unmatched by our competition with 100% inspection before shipping.

Our shear and slitter knives are used to cut a wide variety of materials from 0.0003″ foil to greater than 2″ thickness. We offer the best-suited and successful grades for slitting and shearing HSLA, AHSLA, Duplex©, stainless steels, nickel alloys, copper, brass, titanium, indium aluminum, hot rolled steels, phosph, bronze, clad, and laminated metals.

  • Forged Hermanite Alloys
  • Carbide
  • Powder Metal

  • Forged Tool Steel (D2, M2, T1, H13, etc.)
  • Stainless Steel

  • Thickness +/-0.000040″ (+/- 0.000020” can also be achieved)
  • Flatness within 0.000080″
  • Parallelism better than 0.000080″
  • Conventional heat treating processes
  • Vacuum treating processes
  • Triple tempering

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