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Tooling Guide·13 min read

How to Choose Rotary Slitter Blades: The Complete Specification & Buyer's Guide

Picking the wrong rotary slitter blade quietly costs you in burrs, scrap, and short tool life long before it shows up as a failure. This guide walks through the six specifications that actually define a blade — diameter, bore, thickness, tolerance class, material grade, and edge geometry — and gives you a checklist you can order from.

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Technical Guide·12 min read

Slitting Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS): Tooling, Clearance & Setup Guide

Advanced high-strength steel breaks the rules that work on mild steel. As tensile strength climbs past 980 MPa, knife wear shifts from gradual abrasion to sudden chipping, and the clearance window narrows to almost nothing. This guide covers the tooling, clearance, and setup discipline that AHSS slitting actually requires.

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Technical Guide·12 min read

Slitting Electrical Steel for EV Motor Laminations: A Burr-Free Edge Guide

Electrical steel is thin, abrasive, and unforgiving: a burr a few microns too tall bridges laminations, raises eddy-current losses, and fails the core. This guide covers the tooling, clearance, and setup that burr-free electrical steel slitting demands — and why the EV motor boom makes it worth getting right.

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