Crush Cutting vs Score Slitting: Which One Is Better? If you have spent any time on a slitting line, you have heard both terms used in the same breath. Your OEM manual calls it “score slitting.” The operator on the next shift calls it “crush...
Walk onto any steel plant or fabrication shop floor long enough, and you’ll eventually hear the same complaint: “The blades aren’t lasting.” Burrs are creeping up on a CR strip. A guillotine blade chipped halfway through the third shift. A crop...
In modern manufacturing industries, cutting precision directly affects product quality, material utilization, and operational efficiency. Whether you work in metal processing, flexible packaging, film conversion, or paper production, achieving consistent slit widths...
You’re running a tight slit pattern, five or six strips off a CR coil, and everything looks fine until the strips come off the recoiler. One strip is slightly wider than spec. Another has surface marks that are going to get rejected by the customer. The knife...
Slitting plays a major role in many production lines. Paper, metal coils, plastic films, and foils all pass through slitting machines before they reach the next stage of manufacturing. The quality of the cut depends on one thing more than anything else: the tooling....
Getting a clean, precise cut in metal isn’t just about turning on a machine. It takes careful planning and the right technique. From experience, fabricators also know there are cutting methods that do not yield the same results. The cutting method you choose, between...
