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Metalworking

The combination of our experience, manufacturing with advanced technology, and standard practice of using the highest quality materials available have established IKS as a leading industrial knife manufacturer. Knives from IKS are engineered to provide superior wear, as well as minimal edge failure in every application. The Material and hardness selected during the engineering process will vary greatly by application, and are therefore decided by our specialists who have very industry specific knowledge of each and every type of cutting equipment.

As a manufacturer and supplier, IKS has one of the largest knife portfolios of any company in the world. IKS gladly offers a full array of knives for steel mills, metal processors, as well as knives for fabricators of metal components.

Concerning our side trimmers, shear knives, slitter knives, slitter spacers, tube cutoff knives, and crop shear knives, these IKS products are crafted from premium alloy tool steels and are heat-treated to ensure uniform hardness. Going beyond basic manufacturing, we strive to be a full service facility, which means that IKS is also a capable supplier of non-metallic spacers, arbors shims and rubber stripper rings

The shear blades made by IKS come in various material grades to meet your most demanding requirements; they are available for all types and makes of metalworking shears. IKS also carries one of the largest inventories of squaring shear knives in the world. A simple call to our product specialists will in many cases result in them finding the blade you need for your machine, very possibly in our current inventory.

Scrap chopping replacement knives are something IKS can offer you, as well. We are capable of offering a variety of replacement knives use in many different types of scrap chopping devices. In the field of strip processing, scrap choppers vary wildly from OEM to OEM. With our many years of experience in the coil processing field, we know almost all of the major OEM’s, and offer replacement knives for those machines.

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Shear Blades
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Rotary Metal Slitters
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Rotary Tube Cutoff Knives
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Metal Scrap Chopper Knives
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Machine Ways and Wear Parts