The Benefits of Heat Treating Your Bandsaw Blades

Coils of Scallop blades that have been heat treated.
Ever wonder how to make your blades last longer and perform better? The answer lies in a key step of the manufacturing process: heat treating. Why Heat Treating Matters When we talk about heat-treating bandsaw blades, we’re not referring to the entire blade. Heat treatment usually targets the edge or teeth of a blade. This
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Simmons’ Packaging Knives for HFFS Machinery

When it comes to packaging solutions, Simmons Knife & Saw can supply you with a variety of knives for your case sealers, vacuum packaging machines, cup and tray sealing machines, and more. We already published a blog post all about that, which you can find here. This time around, we’d like to focus specifically on
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Simmons Cleans Up Westlake Park Again – 2024 Edition

On Saturday, May 18th, the Simmons team and their family members once again took the liberty of cleaning up Westlake Park in Bloomingdale, IL. Simmons Knife & Saw officially adopted the park and was recognized as its sponsor in 2019. Since then, Simmons has held multiple volunteer cleanup events at the park, which has led
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From Catch to Packaging: Simmons’ Seafood Processing Blades

In 2020, U.S. commercial fisheries hauled in approximately $4.8 billion worth of fish and seafood across all ports. The fact that that figure only concerns fish and seafood caught in U.S. waters speaks to the massive size and growth of the fish and seafood processing industry.  In fact, according to market research firm The Insight
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A Guide to Simmons’ Packaging Knives

Assorted packaging knives
If you’ve bought blades from Simmons before, you know that we manufacture bandknife and bandsaw blades for applications like foam, bread, meat, and produce. What you might not know is that Simmons is also a provider of high-quality packaging knives for end-of-line operations. If you think that makes us the perfect industrial blade partner who
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From the President’s Desk: What to Expect from Simmons in 2024

While 2023 certainly wasn’t a record-breaking year for Simmons from a fiscal perspective, the slow-down in production allowed us to develop some exciting new products, improve our existing processes, and better manage our vendor relationships to benefit our customers. As we step into 2024, it’d be foolish not to acknowledge the challenges posed by geopolitical
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President Colin Murphy’s 2023 Year-In-Review

As I reflect on these last few years (and 2023 specifically), I can’t help but think that it’s all felt like one long rollercoaster. In 10 or 15 years, somebody’s going to look back at financial statements from 2020-2021 and think, “What the heck was going on there?” For a while, it seemed like most
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Scallop Blades for Foam, Meat, & More Cutting Applications

If you’re looking for a blade with an extremely diverse list of cutting applications, including bread, meat, foam, and more, then you’ll want to stick around and learn more about Simmons’ Scallop blade. When Simmons Knife & Saw was founded, a consumer bread-slicing blade with a Scallop edge was the first blade we ever manufactured.
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Discussing SimCut Butcher Blades for Heavy-Duty Meat Cutting

If your business’s operations involve cutting bone-in meats like beef, pork, fish, or poultry, then you’ll find butcher blades to be your new best friends.  Produced from specialized steel with a superior tooth configuration, the SimCut Butcher blade’s longer blade life helps lower cutting costs while still yielding fast, clean cuts with minimal waste. These
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Food Processing Blades: An Overview

The food processing industry is one of the largest in the world. It can be broken into hundreds of sub-industries, some of which are massive in their own right. Simmons’ decades of experience in the industry have provided us with the knowledge to determine which food processing blades work best for each application, and now
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