Dalla scrivania del Presidente: Resoconto del 2024 e cosa aspettarsi da Simmons nel 2025

Con la fine del 2024, volevo prendermi un momento per condividere le mie riflessioni su quello che è stato un anno straordinario per Simmons Knife & Saw. Quest'anno ha segnato un ritorno alla stabilità e alla crescita dopo l'incertezza del 2023, e ci sono diverse interessanti opportunità all'orizzonte per Simmons.
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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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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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Simmons Teams Up With Feed My Starving Children

On Saturday, April 29, Simmons’ employees along with their families spent the day volunteering at Feed My Starving Children’s location in Schaumburg, IL. This marks the third time Simmons has teamed up with Feed My Starving Children, and we’re proud to continue supporting their cause. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian non-profit organization whose
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6 Tips for Bandsaw Maintenance & Safety

We tend to think of ourselves as blade experts, but when you’ve manufactured bandsaw blades as long as we have, you tend to learn quite a bit about how bandsaw machines work as well. More accurately, you learn a lot about bandsaw maintenance and how to adhere to safety standards so that your blade doesn’t
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5 Things to Look for in a Bandsaw Blade Manufacturer

5 things to look for in a bandsaw blade manufacturer.
If your business uses bandsaws to cut high volumes of foam, meat, cardboard, or other materials, then working with a reliable bandsaw blade manufacturer is critical to the success of your operations. For the cynics out there, we’ll be the first to say that we’re biased when it comes to this. However, in the past
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