At least from our viewpoint, 2010 has so far been a busy year for the machine knife manufacturing industry.  We’d like to thank our loyal clients, friends, and readers for helping us toward all our success.  I mean, without you – well – we’re nothing!

Here at York Saw & Knife, we’ve got some great news and great products in the works.  Meanwhile, we thought we’d share our most popular stories of the quarter with you.  Some are recent, and others have been around so long they’re becoming classics! (more…)

Are you using the optimum knife for your production needs?

It’s especially challenging when your current setup seems to “stop working” out of nowhere.

Problems Like These in Your Cutting Operation… (more…)

Today we’re going to make an exception to the old rule about “what happens in Vegas” and tell you about what a great overall success this year’s Pack Expo turned out to be.  It seems that most of the post-Pack buzz focuses on strong speakers,  a high volume of new connections made, and an overall surprisingly great turnout considering  the current economy.  In fact, reported total visitor and exhibitor numbers for the co-located event indicate 2009 as the the “second-largest PACK EXPO Las Vegas since PMMI launched the show in 1995.”

It’s great to see widespread satisfaction across the board, for visitors and exhibitors alike.   Frankly,  we’ve been trying to sum up our feelings about the whole thing, and all we’ve managed to come up with is one simple word: (more…)

Did you know York Saw & Knife is one of the oldest active saw and knife manufacturers in the United States?

In 1906, York, PA man Louis Klunk set out to become a premier manufacturer of steel, set-tooth saw blades.  He built a business from the ground up, employing and honing the skill of a dedicated, local workforce to see it all through.  The then-titled York Saw Works soon became renowned  for its quality, reliability, and superior service to numerous industries in need of quality saw blades. (more…)

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York Saw and Knife continually searches for new materials and methods to manufacture our leading-edge cutting tools. Our applications engineers recently completed a three month working vacation in New Mexico working on – in conjunction with a private entity – a breakthrough, game-changing material. (more…)

We talk to a number of people out there, and visit with others at shows or on the road when we can. We’re unsure, however, how many of you out there are aware of York Saw and Knife’s capabilities to manufacture specialty knives for OEM’s and their end users.

York Saw and Knife can outfit your slitter, scorer, bologna slicer… whatever. Our manufacturing system for producing knives and blades is one of the most flexible in the world, and we can produce premier product prototypes in less time than industry standards.

We also feature no minimum quantity order requirements.

The Challenge: Stump Our Team With Your Cutting Quandry

OEM or end user, we challenge you to stump our customer support team and applications engineers with a blade (that you intend to produce/use). We’re confident we can manufacture any blade you can throw at us (although we’d prefer if you just mailed it or sent drawings).

Our version will be high quality, economical, tough, precision and feature less lead time. If we can’t, well, I don’t know. You’ll win the challenge and I’ll have to send something your way.