Metals

Metals Industry Expertise

Cutting operations are the most demanding in a metal manufacturing or processing facility. In order to make a good cut, you must have the best tools, and Kinetic has decades of experience making the best industrial knives in the world for the metals industry.

Kinetic has the right knives and other wear products to fit your needs.

Metals

Metals Industry Expertise

Cutting operations are the most demanding in a metal manufacturing or processing facility. In order to make a good cut, you must have the best tools, and Kinetic has decades of experience making the best industrial knives in the world for the metals industry.

Kinetic has the right knives and other wear products to fit your needs.

Side Trimmers

Kinetic’s NoGrind™ Surface Finish is the best in the industry.

  • 8/16 RMS surface finish.
  • Less friction while trimming.
  • Cleaner cuts and less material pick-up on your knives.
  • 25-30% longer side trimmer life.

Kinetic can resharpen your side trimmers to like new condition. We use a patented hard-turning process to resharpen your worn side trimmers.

  • Avoids excessive heat generation from surface grinding, which can change the metallurgical structure of the knife.
  • Resharpened side trimmers are as good as new.
  • Exclusive resharpening process protects your knife investment.

Kinetic Shear Blades for any machine on the market

In order to achieve optimum performance with your shears, you must use the best blades – made from the best steel for your application, heat treated and finished to perfection – exactly what you get with a Kinetic shear blade.

Kinetic manufactures a complete line of Shear Blades designed to fit any shear on the market. Hot Crop Shear blades with radius – not a problem. Need that radius re-machined – let us do it for you and return that knife to you looking like new!

Our knife material is dictated by the product you need to shear. Our technical sales team will work with you to understand your application – cutting hot or cold, plate or sheet, thick or thin – and Kinetic will make the best Shear Blade for your application.

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Profile Knives

Cutting a product along a contoured profile is often the most challenging application in the manufacturing process.

A consistent cut is key, and that’s why Kinetic manufactures all Profile Knives on CNC machining centers or EDM machines to your exact specifications.

Kinetic manufactures contoured Profile Knives for:

  • Round
  • Hex
  • Angled Bars
  • T-posts
  • Sign posts
  • Channels
  • Bed frames

The flexibility of our CNC production machines and EDM machines allows Kinetic to offer our customers Profile Knives of any shape, for any workpiece material.

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Crop Shear Blades

Kinetic’s Crop Shear Blades are manufactured from a variety of materials to meet the most demanding specifications. Whether your product is hot or cold, plate, sheet or bar, Kinetic can produce the right blade in the right configuration for your needs.

Typical rectangular blades include:

  • Resquare shears
  • Plate mill shears
  • Scrap choppers – rotary and stationary
  • Flying shears
  • Crop and cobble shears

Scrap Choppers: tough blades for tough jobs

Scrap chopping blades have to be tough. They take more abuse than any other knife in the line.

Kinetic offers scrap choppers in a variety of materials, selected for your specific application. Our in-house heat-treating methods enhance the toughness and wear resistance of our scrap choppers.

As an added benefit, Kinetic’s through-hardening heat treatment will allow scrap chopping knives to be resharpened without any change in hardness until your specific scrap size is reached.

  • Heat-treating enhances toughness.
  • Wide variety of knife materials for wide variety of chopping operations.
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Slitters and Tooling

Kinetic can provide you with slitters that have precision or standard tolerances. We also provide slitter tooling: spacers, separator discs, and stripper rings.
Kinetic can supply products for any OEM slitter equipment, including:

    • Alcos
    • Braner
    • Chicago Slitter
    • Delta Steel Technologies
    • Fagor
    • Herr-Voss Stamco
    • Loopco
    • Pro-Eco
    • Red Bud
 
 
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Resharpening

Kinetic can resharpen any type of shear blade (straight, bowtie, or profile), scrap chopper, side trimmer, or slitter. Our skilled machinists ensure that a resharpened knife will perform as good as new in your metal manufacturing or processing operation.

Some customers want their bar shear blades ground on the flats – that’s not a problem for Kinetic. We can do that and provide you with a shim to bring the knife to “as new” thickness. A Kinetic remachined bar knife will last as long as your new bar knife. 

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Kinetic Tube Cut-Off Knives: exceptional ductility = shock resistance

Kinetic’s differential hardening technologies create Tube Cut-Off Knives with exceptional ductility and shock resistance.

Kinetic quality is built into every one of our tube cut-off knives. Our full range of in-house machining, grinding, and heat-treating capabilities enables us to manufacture tough and wear-resistant industrial blades, proven to provide consistent, quality cuts for our customers.

Kinetic also offers tube cut-off knives with TiN coating (Titanium Nitride coating) to improve wear resistance or our proprietary XLN coating to improve lubricity. These surface treatments result in longer service life and improved cuts.

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Friction Saws and Carbide Saws

Kinetic provides friction saws and carbide saws in a variety of materials and sizes.

Our saws for cutting billets, bars, beams, channels, or tubes and pipes are manufactured to your specifications.

  • Diameters from 36” (915 mm) to 100” (2540 mm).
  • Variety of flame-hardened and non-flame-hardened material options.
  • Customized tooth styles and cross sections to fit any application.
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Demolition and Scrap Shears

Kinetic produces a wide variety of demolition and scrap shear blades.

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, Kinetic manufactures blades that provide long service life and excellent performance, allowing you to reduce your operating costs.

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Rolls

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, trust Kinetic for your roll needs.

  • Crusher rolls
  • Guide rolls
  • Straightener rolls
  • Work rolls
  • Z mill rolls
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Liner Plates

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, trust Kinetic for your liner plate needs.

  • Pickle line liner plates
  • Hot mill liner plates
  • Tube mill liner plates

Complex Designs – Exotic Metals

Do you have an unusual, “one-off” application? Are you worried about cutting a high strength material or do you have a complex design issue? Kinetic’s strong reputation for quality and consistency has been built on years of providing unique solutions for our customers’ manufacturing problems.

Kinetic’s CNC machining capacity, EDM capability, and hard-turning technology, combined with our engineering expertise, has allowed us to provide the right product for the job in all kinds of manufacturing environments.

  • On-staff engineers design best solutions for your operation.
  • Material expertise guarantees production-enhancing blades.
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Side Trimmers

Kinetic’s NoGrind™ Surface Finish is the best in the industry.

  • 8/16 RMS surface finish.
  • Less friction while trimming.
  • Cleaner cuts and less material pick-up on your knives.
  • 25-30% longer side trimmer life.

Kinetic can resharpen your side trimmers to like new condition. We use a patented hard-turning process to resharpen your worn side trimmers.

  • Avoids excessive heat generation from surface grinding, which can change the metallurgical structure of the knife.
  • Resharpened side trimmers are as good as new.
  • Exclusive resharpening process protects your knife investment.

Kinetic Shear Blades for any machine on the market

In order to achieve optimum performance with your shears, you must use the best blades – made from the best steel for your application, heat treated and finished to perfection – exactly what you get with a Kinetic shear blade.

Kinetic manufactures a complete line of Shear Blades designed to fit any shear on the market. Hot Crop Shear blades with radius – not a problem. Need that radius re-machined – let us do it for you and return that knife to you looking like new!

Our knife material is dictated by the product you need to shear. Our technical sales team will work with you to understand your application – cutting hot or cold, plate or sheet, thick or thin – and Kinetic will make the best Shear Blade for your application.

Previous
Next

Profile Knives

Cutting a product along a contoured profile is often the most challenging application in the manufacturing process.

A consistent cut is key, and that’s why Kinetic manufactures all Profile Knives on CNC machining centers or EDM machines to your exact specifications.

Kinetic manufactures contoured Profile Knives for:

  • Round
  • Hex
  • Angled Bars
  • T-posts
  • Sign posts
  • Channels
  • Bed frames

The flexibility of our CNC production machines and EDM machines allows Kinetic to offer our customers Profile Knives of any shape, for any workpiece material.

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Next

Crop Shear Blades

Kinetic’s Crop Shear Blades are manufactured from a variety of materials to meet the most demanding specifications. Whether your product is hot or cold, plate, sheet or bar, Kinetic can produce the right blade in the right configuration for your needs.

Typical rectangular blades include:

  • Resquare shears
  • Plate mill shears
  • Scrap choppers – rotary and stationary
  • Flying shears
  • Crop and cobble shears

Scrap Choppers: tough blades for tough jobs

Scrap chopping blades have to be tough. They take more abuse than any other knife in the line.

Kinetic offers scrap choppers in a variety of materials, selected for your specific application. Our in-house heat-treating methods enhance the toughness and wear resistance of our scrap choppers.

As an added benefit, Kinetic’s through-hardening heat treatment will allow scrap chopping knives to be resharpened without any change in hardness until your specific scrap size is reached.

  • Heat-treating enhances toughness.
  • Wide variety of knife materials for wide variety of chopping operations.
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Next

Slitters and Tooling

Kinetic can provide you with slitters that have precision or standard tolerances. We also provide slitter tooling: spacers, separator discs, and stripper rings.
Kinetic can supply products for any OEM slitter equipment, including:

    • Alcos
    • Braner
    • Chicago Slitter
    • Delta Steel Technologies
    • Fagor
    • Herr-Voss Stamco
    • Loopco
    • Pro-Eco
    • Red Bud
 
 
Previous
Next

Resharpening

Kinetic can resharpen any type of shear blade (straight, bowtie, or profile), scrap chopper, side trimmer, or slitter. Our skilled machinists ensure that a resharpened knife will perform as good as new in your metal manufacturing or processing operation.

Some customers want their bar shear blades ground on the flats – that’s not a problem for Kinetic. We can do that and provide you with a shim to bring the knife to “as new” thickness. A Kinetic remachined bar knife will last as long as your new bar knife. 

Previous
Next

Kinetic Tube Cut-Off Knives: exceptional ductility = shock resistance

Kinetic’s differential hardening technologies create Tube Cut-Off Knives with exceptional ductility and shock resistance.

Kinetic quality is built into every one of our tube cut-off knives. Our full range of in-house machining, grinding, and heat-treating capabilities enables us to manufacture tough and wear-resistant industrial blades, proven to provide consistent, quality cuts for our customers.

Kinetic also offers tube cut-off knives with TiN coating (Titanium Nitride coating) to improve wear resistance or our proprietary XLN coating to improve lubricity. These surface treatments result in longer service life and improved cuts.

Previous
Next

Friction Saws and Carbide Saws

Kinetic provides friction saws and carbide saws in a variety of materials and sizes.

Our saws for cutting billets, bars, beams, channels, or tubes and pipes are manufactured to your specifications.

  • Diameters from 36” (915 mm) to 100” (2540 mm).
  • Variety of flame-hardened and non-flame-hardened material options.
  • Customized tooth styles and cross sections to fit any application.
Previous
Next

Demolition and Scrap Shears

Kinetic produces a wide variety of demolition and scrap shear blades.

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, Kinetic manufactures blades that provide long service life and excellent performance, allowing you to reduce your operating costs.

Previous
Next

Rolls

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, trust Kinetic for your roll needs.

  • Crusher rolls
  • Guide rolls
  • Straightener rolls
  • Work rolls
  • Z mill rolls
Previous
Next

Liner Plates

With our engineering and metallurgical expertise, in-house heat treatment, and skilled machinists and technologists, trust Kinetic for your liner plate needs.

  • Pickle line liner plates
  • Hot mill liner plates
  • Tube mill liner plates

Complex Designs – Exotic Metals

Do you have an unusual, “one-off” application? Are you worried about cutting a high strength material or do you have a complex design issue? Kinetic’s strong reputation for quality and consistency has been built on years of providing unique solutions for our customers’ manufacturing problems.

Kinetic’s CNC machining capacity, EDM capability, and hard-turning technology, combined with our engineering expertise, has allowed us to provide the right product for the job in all kinds of manufacturing environments.

  • On-staff engineers design best solutions for your operation.
  • Material expertise guarantees production-enhancing blades.
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