We wanted to share the video of YSK’s free, in-house test cutting machine (ol’ Cutty) in action… This instance is from our involvement on the University of Illinois student’s senior design project. We utilized knife (E) from the picture in the previous post. It made a clean cut with the lowest cut forces. As you Continue Reading →
YSK recently assisted a University of Illinois student undertaking a senior design project at a major packaging company. The company provided the student a set of parameters and tasked her with developing the “best” blade to cut a new material the company developed. The student read about YSK’s in-house test cutting capabilities and contacted us Continue Reading →
Disclosure: no York Saw & Knife Co. knives or blades are featured in this gallery of wild x-ray pics. I think the moral of the story is to stay away from nail guns!
York Saw & Knife is thankful for our wonderful customers and excellent employees. To show our thanks, today, York Saw & Knife is providing free, frozen turkeys to our staff. On a related note, our meat processing and food processing customers inform us they are thankful for York Saw & Knife’s high-quality, precision toothed, serrated Continue Reading →
Pack Expo 2008 is in the books and York Saw & Knife is back from the Windy City. We really enjoyed the show – and it seemed Pack Expo enjoyed the YSK booth! More attendees visited our booth than any other Pack show we’ve been involved with!* So congrats to the Pack Expo organizers and Continue Reading →
The Pack Expo 2008 is underway and business is brisk at the York Saw & Knife booth (E-7827). We are definitely enjoying catching up with past and present customers, and meeting many potential new customers interested in the YSK line of high quality blades. Please enjoy a few pictures from our first days at Pack Continue Reading →
In a little over two weeks, York Saw and Knife is hitting Chicago to take part in the 2008 Pack Expo. We’ll be there November 9 – 13. We’re currently finishing our final preparations for the show – crossing t’s and dotting i’s. Pack is an event devoted to the packaging industry, serving suppliers and Continue Reading →
We see a lot of confusion out of the foam production, plastics, film, packaging and food processing industries regarding usage of V-Tooth and C-Tooth knife blades. While the C-Tooth blade is very similar to the V-Tooth, it delivers some clear-cut advantages. The C-Tooth is designed to point the blade teeth into the material, cutting more Continue Reading →
One of the many uses York Saw & Knife knives serve is adding perforations to paper, foil, plastic, film, corrugated products, foam and… toilet paper! Rubes (R) cartoon used with permission.
“Rubes (R) cartoon used with permission.” Leigh Rubin points out just how complicated our lives could be in a world without perforations. Fortunately for all of us there is York Saw and Knife who can design and manufacture just about any type, size, or shape of perforating knife you may require for your particular application. Continue Reading →