Apex Shears’ high quality pelletizer blades help our customers increase output by extending production runs between blade changes. We supply a huge range of knives to the plastics industry for strand pelletizers, underwater pelletizers and all types of size reduction technology. 

Every blade is manufactured from high quality traceable steel and our precision manufacturing methods guarantee a sharp, uniform cutting edge and good wear resistance even when faced with abrasive feedstocks.

Apex Shears’ Recycling blades, sometimes called chipper blades, are used to recycle most every material chemically known to man. This is a cutting process involving a square cage rotary motion, which reduces or chips any material to a smaller size, so that it can be processed further.

Apex Shears offers a wide range of Shredding Tooling and Knives for Plastics, Aluminum, Rubber Shredding/Recycling Knives as well as Wear Parts,  

Apex Shears begins with selection of the finest high quality steel grades that are selected with great accuracy. These steel grades range from tough medium alloy tool steels to long life high carbon high chrome steels and special high wear resistant steel grades .

Our Steel Grades for these Shredding Knives ranges from Carbon Steels to Alloy Steels and also to High Alloy Tool Steels depending on the application

Our experienced engineers select the knife material on the basis of your machines/equipment and the material being cut. Our Heat Treatment processes and Through-Hardening Techniques have been perfected with over 60 years of manufacturing experience to enhance the strength, durability and perfor¬mance of our knives.

Thereafter these knives are ground using superior grinding machines and techniques to give a proper surface finish, clean sharp cutting edge for durability, performance and superior shred quality.

We also manufacture shafts for single shaft/double shaft designs for the shredding machines as well as the metal spacers that may be required by our customers

Apex Shears offers a wide range of Knives and Blades for Plastics Processing Industry. We start with selection of the finest high quality steel grades that are selected with great accuracy. These steel grades range from tough medium alloy tool steels to long life high carbon high chrome steels and special high wear resistant steel grades. We also offer TC (Tungsten Carbide) Knives on request.

Our experienced engineers select the knife material on the basis of your ma¬ chines/equipment and the plastic material being cut. Our Heat Treatment pro¬cesses and Through-Hardening Techniques have been perfected with over 60 years of manufacturing experience to enhance the strength, durability and performance of our knives.

Our Granulator Knives reduce the plastic to a fine uniform granule size to minimize screen clogging. Our Knives precision ground edges and mirrored surface finish provide clean sharp cuts on the most abrasive of plastics. Reli¬ability and wear-resistance increases machine uptime and user profits.

Amongst the common machine makes for  granulating,   pelletizing or  recycling for which we supply our Knives are as follows :

• Alpine Hosokawa
• Alsteele
• Arun
• Ball & Jewell
• Buss Condux
• Concoran
• C.M.G
• Cumberland,
• Entoleter
• Erema
• Folcieri
• Getecha
• Gloucester
• Granutech
• Himalaya
• Herbold
• L.T.M.
• IMS
• Jiangyin Hongda
• Jiangsu Guibao
• Mitts & Merill
• Nelmor
• Nuga
• Nanjing Sunup
• Pallman
• Pimco
• Ramco
• Taylor Stiles
• Young
• Zerma
• Zhangjiagang
• Other OEM Machines.

Knives and Blades for specialized applications can be designed on request.

Apex Shears’ Knives for the OS8/MDF/Chipboard/Panelboard/Particleboard Industry are manufactured to ensure high productivity and excellent chip quality.

These knives are ground to tolerances to ensure uniformity in chip size. The abrasive effect of the wood and wood chips wears down the counter knives and wear plates thereby affecting the chip length. Hence high wear resistance is very important for these parts.

• Flaker Knives and components from 8% Cr Steel v/s  5% Cr Steel give better grinding intervals, wear resistance and performance.
• OSB/Flaker Machine Components such as Counter Knives, Wear Shoes, Pressure Lips etc are also made from special wear resistant tool steels designed to maximize value based on customers quality and price expectations.

Apex has an extraordinarily broad and comprehensive range of products for plywood and veneer industries. Apex's factories can supply virtually all types of knives and knife-related components.

• Apex Inlaid steels specially developed for Rotary Lathe and Slicer Ap­plications for the PlywoodNeneer Industry.
• Superior Tool performance + Optimal Cutting Characteristics are achieved through well balanced heat treatment & processing.
• Finished Veneer has to be sufficiently strong, smooth-surfaced and uniform in quality which is only achievable by using high quality slicing and peeling knives.
• A high quality knife guarantees faultless production and helps reduce raw material wastage which in turn yields savings in terms of overall costs.

The steel for these knives is specially rolled under the technical guidance of Apex's own engineers. The inlay material for the veneer knives are again man­ ufactured from wide range of steels such as AISI 01, S1, HSS M2 and Solid Steel Knives from special grades of steel such as 8% Chrome Steel.

Face Veneer for the Woodworking Industry can be divided as under : 

• Longitudinal Slicing: The log is cut into flitch slabs usually between 50 and 100mm thick. The slabs are drawn under the stationary slicer blade end on, and the veneer is paired off down the length of the flitch.
• Crosscut Slicing: Over the years, more decorative veneer has been produced by this method. It is fast and very efficient, with wastage from each bolt being minimal. In crosscutting, the flitch or full log is locked into the machine. Systems have been developed with stationary or moving knives but the principle is the same. The knife moves across the width of the flitch at a slight angle, and because of its short travel, quick cycle times are achieved with high output. As the flitch is sliced away the carriage gradually moves closer to the blade with a pressure bar controlling the knife position.
• Staylog Lathe Slicing: This technique can accommodate the quarter cut slicing, crown cut slicing, semi rotary peeling, or highly decorative difficult timbers such as burls, butts, ripple and fiddleback. Because of its flexibility it can maximize the yield of these timbers and is particular suited to cutting smaller logs such as regrowth. The log or flitch is locked into the machine arm which rotates on a centre axis like a lathe. With each revolution the flitch contacts the knife, which cuts across the width of the face. The veneer is sliced off in a tangential arc to the centre axis, and therefore produces veneer which is actually wider than the dimensions of the flitch it came from. This is particularly advantageous when using smaller logs. As the flitch is sliced, both the log arm and knife carriage move together to maintain balance and the correct cutting angle. In addition to being an optimum system for small regrowth logs this technique offers another important advantage over conventional slicing. The staylog lathe has the facility to manipulate the position and angle of the flitch in the slicer, thus avoiding or minimizing impact of unsound or undesirable sections, or conversely taking advantage of the better sections. 
• Apex has an extraordinarily broad and comprehensive range of products for plywood and veneer industries. Apex's factories can supply virtually all types of knives and knife-related components.
• First-class raw materials, professional heat treatment for good wear resistance and precise machining for dimensional accuracy with blemish-free surfaces for superior cutting performance and quality of end products.
• The steel for these knives is specially rolled under the technical guidance of Apex's own engineers. The inlay material for the veneer knives are again manufactured from wide range of steels such as AISI 01, S1, HSS M2 and Solid Steel Knives from special grades of steel such as 8% Chrome Steel.

Knives for the OS8/MDF/Chipboard/Panelboard/Particleboard Industry are manufactured to ensure high productivity and excellent chip quality.

These knives are ground to tolerances to ensure uniformity in chip size. The abrasive effect of the wood and wood chips wears down the counter knives and wear plates thereby affecting the chip length. Hence high wear resistance is very important for these parts.

• Chipper/Flaker Knives and components from 8% Cr Steel v/s  5% Cr Steel give better grinding intervals, wear resistance and performance.
• OS8/Flaker Machine Components such as Counter Knives, Wear Shoes, Pressure Lips etc are also made from special wear resistant tool steels designed to maximize value based on customers quality and price ex­ pectations.