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…)

We promised some follow up on the Shark Tooth blade a little while back…

York Saw and Knife recently assisted a major consumer products, pressure-sensitive adhesives and materials producer in creating a new cut-off knife for a Winder/Rewinder machine.

The company developed a new, very tough film that typical knife designs could not cut cleanly and completely, resulting in a shredded, undesirable edge. Aware of York Saw and Knife’s free test cutting a perforating services (of flexible films utilizing a plunge cut with a straight, serrated edge blade), the company contacted York Saw and Knife and we quickly started to tackle the challenge.

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The following was a special April Fools’ email sent to our monthly email members. If you would like to subscribe to the YSK monthly email, email us and include your contact information.

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…)

Tough material or film affecting your production and wrecking your bottom line? Or just giving you a headache you don’t need?

The YSK shark tooth cut-off knife will be the topic of an upcoming post.

Stay tuned…

Apple has the iPod nano. An Indian car maker (Tata Motors) launched its Nano this week.

Related, there’s buzz building re: nanotechnology in some of the industries York Saw & Knife serves. But, it’s only buzz, and it’s only building.  Packaging World notes a January report on nanotechnology in packaging by the Swiss Center for Technology Advancement TA-SWISS.

From PW, the Swiss group noted nanotechnology:

“…is already incorporated into some food packaging, for example in films, nano-silver layers or layers in PET bottles to improve barrier properties. They even cite greenhouse gas reductions associated with ‘nano-PET bottles.’ The study recognizes that th

ere is a huge market potential for nano-materials in packaging.”

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York Saw and Knife is now active in Google Maps’ Local Business Center.

By searching for or visiting us there, you’ll find our enhanced company listing featuring our contact info, directions, website link, general info and some photos and videos.

The YSK Google Maps business listing is a pretty cool feature, particularly for folks not familiar or previously not aware of York Saw and Knife and our high-quality products and services.

And it never hurts to drop some additional knowledge on the folks at Google.

All across food processing, materials conversion and packaging, folks are trying to cut costs to meet these challenging economic times.  John Henry, Certified Packaging Professional (CPP), suggests looking for ways to increase production line changeover efficiency. Henry notes,

“How much can you save via reduced changeover times? …The lowest number I’ve seen, from a pharmaceutical packager, is $13,500 an hour. A distilled spirits bottler calculates it at more than $32,000 an hour.”

Better quality changeovers, Henry argues, will lead to increased performance and efficiency, going straight to the bottom line. (more…)

Earlier this week, we attended a webinar (billed as “From google to twitter”) on the various means of distributing news and information in the ever-expanding social media environment. The speakers discussed the social media press release and the usual suspects of twitter, facebook and LinkedIn, etc.

For a free webinar, it was very interesting and informative. If you’d like to check it out, email me or post in the comments and we’ll forward the powerpoint slides. (more…)

YSK is both happy and excited to announce the week of 2/16 – 2/20 brought us more NEW yorksaw.com user registrations than any other week during the site’s existence!

We’re excited more and more people are seeing the value York Saw and Knife provides. And more and more people are becoming invested with YSK to sign up and register, submit RFQ’s through yorksaw.com and keep abreast of the latest news and notes via the York Saw Blog and our monthly *emails.

So thank you to all our customers, all the yorksaw.com website users – old and new, and the York Saw and Knife employees, who make it all happen.

* If you would like to be added to our monthly email list, email us your info and we’ll include you in our next distribution!

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.