Zirconia ceramic cutting blades
Zirconia ceramic cutting blades are rightly considered to be the top in cutting. Their extreme high hardness offers a high blade endurance and defines the FORTIUS ZR series (orange safety box).
However this property comes with a compromise: an increased risk of breakage due to inherent higher brittleness. In other words, the blades are fragile.
Risk
A breaking razorblade during the slitting process is to be avoided at all cost:
- You do not want to take the risk that zirconia particles end up in your customer's end products.
- Small blade fragments that turn in the web make the film unusable (e.g. film for food packaging).
- Zirconia ceramic particles are not metal detectable. The risk small zirconia cutting parts end up by the end user, is important.
- A potential extrusion or converting line stop is a considerable cost.
Solution
The solution lies in the choice for blades with more resilience like Fortis or Fortis +. Their concept: a resilient stainless steel body combined with a ceramic coated cutting edge, which:
- offers high cutting performance, and
- most importantly eliminates the danger of breakage.
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