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Industries & Applications . Archery & Broadheads American Cutting Edge manufactures archery/bow hunting broadheads to our customers most demanding tolerances. Converting Film, Foil, and Non-wovens From 3-hole slitters to core cutters to score knives, American Cutting Edge has got you covered. Fiber and Fiberglass Production Fiber and fiberglass chopping is ...

Material selection is a critical decision with any knife. All materials have slightly different characteristics that we take into account when suggesting a material to our customers. Some are quite obvious, such as toughness and wear resistance, but others might not be so apparent. Plus we have to decide how changing one characteristic affects the other characteristics that are important. Here is a list of all we consider: Wear Resistance What type of wear? A s...

Shop Now Request a Quote American Cutting Edge’s goal is not to be your vendor but more importantly to be your partner. Our mission is to decrease your pelletizing production costs while also offering a cost competitive pelletizing knives. With 55 years of experience, we can use a simple formula to achieve lower production costs. Understanding your application + American Cutting Edge expertise = superior performanc...

Shop Now Request a Quote American Cutting Edge is a leading supplier of a broad array of food processing knives and blades. From poultry, pork, and beef processing blades to fruits, vegetables, and confections , ACE's solution offering has you covered. We offer OEM-compatible knives and blades that deliver the same tolerances, quality, and wear resistance at a fraction of the cost of the OEM. ACE's extensive inventory enables processors to not carry unnecessary volumes of rep...

Shop Now Request a Quote Advances in the medical industry are astounding! American Cutting Edge is helping by using our knowledge of materials, cleaning processes, and bevel geometry to improve the speed and ease of medical device production. Be it blades for machining or trimming prosthetic devices, slitters for skin-product processing, or dermatome-style perforator blades, American Cutting Edge provides the quality...

Request a Quote Guillotine blades, also known as cut-off knives, are used to cut many different materials. Designed to cut material as the blade swings into action for many manufacturing processes. American Cutting Edge stocks a variety of guillotine cut-off knives that can be used to cut Paper Rubber Film Foil Steel Sheets And More Guillotine knives are made from various materials that best fit your cutting application.  Below are some of the different options we offer: ...

Shop Now Request a Quote Mario Cotta has been a leader in the paper, converting, tissue and nonwoven industries for over 100 years. Today, they remain one of the world’s top manufacturers of slitter systems, knife holders, and knife blades for the converting industry. American Cutting Edge is proud to be an authorized solution provider of Mario Cotta converting systems in the United States. Our in-house converting industry experts have extensive k...

Salt Lake City, Utah Booth 118 November 28 – November 30 Little American Hotel Salt Lake City, Utah Booth 118 Tuesday, November 28, 2023: 1pm - 6pm Wednesday, November 29, 2023: 7am – 6:30pm Thursday, November 30, 2023: 7am – 3pm Join us at the preeminent conference on carbon fiber and the expanding role of this material in the composites industry. While you’re there, make sure to stop by to see American Cutting Edge in booth 118 to talk to our tea...

American Cutting Edge has the largest inventory in North America of slitting blades. We stock all types of injector blades, slotted blades, and 43mm 3-hole slitter blades. Due to the diversity of the material being slit, we offer all these blades in a wide range of thicknesses, materials, edge geometries and coatings. Our extensive inventory enables us to provide same day shipping for all standard items. Razor slitting is often used when narrow strips are requ...

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October 19 – 21 Orange County Convention Center Orlando, Florida Booth 1205 Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Thursday, October 21, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM We’re looking forward to seeing you at ICEC USA 2021. Equip yourself with the right tools to move your business to the next level. Take advantage of multiple learning opportunities throughout ICEC to sharpen your expertise, strengthen your netw...

Industrial knives are generally used to cut or shred an incredible variety of materials. From food and plastics to the toughest steels and non-ferrous materials, industrial knives and cutting edges are used to reduce the size and process all kinds of materials. Because of the wide variety of applications leading to very diverse stresses on the cutting edge, a variety of knife materials must be used to achieve the needed cutting result while also providing optimal life for t...

We’re excited to announce that our parent company, C.B. Manufacturing & Sales Co., Inc., has acquired Great Lakes Industrial Knife Company, Inc. in Akron, Ohio. The acquisition of Great Lakes Industrial Knife strongly aligns with our strategy to make cutting effortless for customers by providing end-to-end cutting and grinding solutions for a broad array of industrial applications. By purchasing Great Lakes Industrial Knife, ACE gains a world-class domestic knife manufacturer with broad capabiliti...

American Cutting Edge was built on the cornerstone of our underwater pelletizer blade product line. Charlie Biehn (American Cutting Edge’s founder) was the first to bond Ferro-tic to stainless and presented this blade at NPE in the 1980s. This blade is now known as the bi-metal blade and is the industry standard. American Cutting Edge has been an industry leader and innovator in the UWP blade industry since 1965. American Cutting Edge currently manufactures a w...

Shop Now Request a Quote > American Cutting Edge We are a leading manufacturer of Fiber Chopping Blades for the fiber and fiberglass manufacturing and recycling industries and have been for over 50 Years. These blades are used in fiberglass cutting machines to cut fibers and fiberglass to various industry standards as well as custom lengths to be used in the fiber, textile and composites industries. Choosing American...

October 30 – November 2 Atlanta, GA Booth K62 Tuesday, October 31, 2023: 10am - 5pm Wednesday, November 1, 2023: 9am - 5pm Thursday, November 2, 2023: 9am – 5pm Composites and Advanced Materials Expo Join us at the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event in North America. Enjoy the robust education program and the expansive exhibit hall. Visit hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers! While you’re there, make sure to stop by to...

September 20 -22nd Virginia Beach Convention Center Virginia Beach, Virginia Booth 226 Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET Thursday, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET Friday, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm ET We’re looking forward to seeing you at Auto Glass Week 2023 . Come together with the best in the automotive business to engage on the largest exhibition floor in Auto Week history! This year’s event showcases the latest advancements and innovations in the OE and aft...

Request a Quote American Cutting Edge serves steel plants, metal fabricators, steel service centers, and rolling mills by providing shear blades, slitting knives, rotary tube cut-off knives, edge trimmers, and scrap choppers. Our team of engineers can assist you with cutting solutions for your specific steel processing requirements using the latest in manufacturing, heat treating, and material selection technology. State-o...

More Than Just Blades and Knives At American Cutting Edge, our goal is to make cutting effortless for our customers whether it’s a custom solution or off-the-shelf option. Our solution experts partner with you to identify the right industrial knife, cutting blade or razor blade for your specific application to reduce downtime, improve throughput, and extend blade or ...

Since 1965, American Cutting Edge has been a market leader in the design and manufacturing of industrial machine knives and razors. Our extensive product selection provides same-day shipping of a wide array of granulating, pelletizing, food and meat processing, wood chipping, converting, textile and fiber processing, flooring, and steel cutting knives and razors. When an off-the-shelf solution won’t work for your specific application, American Cutting Edge has the experience and resources...

American Cutting Edge understands industrial machine knives and blades of all shapes and sizes from stump teeth grinders, large granulator knives, ceramic blades, wood chipper blades and steel processing knives to smaller packaging tape knives, sheer slitters, hook blades, tungsten carbide blades and fiberglass chopping blades – just to name a few. With over 59 years of industrial knife and blade manufacturing experience, we’ve worked in many industries over the years....

Since 1965, American Cutting Edge has been a market leader in the design and manufacturing of industrial machine knives and razors. Our extensive product selection provides same-day shipping of a wide array of granulating, pelletizing, food and meat processing, wood chipping, converting, textile and fiber processing, flooring, and steel cutting knives and razors. When an off-the-shelf solution won’t work for your specific application, American Cutting Edge has the experie...

Shop Now Request a Quote We stock many shredder blades including counter knives and crown cutters for shredders using 30mm, 40mm, and 60mm cutters. We have incorporated sophisticated heat treat methods to prevent the problems processors experience with original equipment manufacturers' counter knives while providing greater wear resistance. 50 years of expertise in manufacturing industrial machine knives assures you are provided cutting inserts that will maximize your s...

February 6 - 8 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, CA Booth #977 Tuesday, February 6: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. PT Wednesday, February 7: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. PT Thursday, February 8: 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. PT Join us at MD&M West, a one-of-a-kind event in the MedTech industry. This event gathers professionals from the nation's top 50 medical device OEMs. With over 14,000 attendees and 1,600 exhibitors, MD&M West combines five expos into one grand event: MD&M, WestPack, ATX West, ...

Since 1965... American Cutting Edge, a division of CB Manufacturing & Sales Co., Inc., is a leading supplier of machine knives and industrial razor blades. Our mission is simple - make cutting effortless for our clients! Founded by Charles Biehn, Sr. in 1965, ACE has been and continues to be committed to removing the hassle involved in industrial cutting. Our mission is to make cutting effortless for our customers. To do this we ask questions about your specific application and then liste...

With materials and profile capabilities making regular advancements, why haven’t your knives followed suit? They have! American Cutting Edge makes and supplies knives to fit AccuFly®, Conair®, Gatto®, Goodman®, RDN®, Versa®, and many other leading extrusion cutoff machines. From the old standards of blue tempered spring steel, 301 stainless, and D2 tool steel to the new bright spring steels, powdered metals, and solid carbides, we can en...

The sharpest knives are those whose cutting edge is down to a very small point. Clearly the sharpest knife would be one with only one molecule of width at the cutting edge. While that “perfect knife” would be very sharp indeed, the edge would be so weak that it would break almost immediately. There are a number of techniques used to prepare an edge to give the best performance. In a cutting application, a sharp edge may be the best solution, but in a crush cu...

Once a knife has been designed to meet the application conditions including material selection and general shape, there are other factors that can enhance the life or performance of the knife. These include surface treatments, coatings, and edge preparation. See the selection under Technical Info for a discussion of edge preparation considerations. We will discuss the potential advantages that surface treatments and coatings can bring to your application. Coatings and surface treatments are not inexpensive...

American Cutting Edge is the preferred LUTZ®  Blade distributor in the United States. American Cutting Edge and LUTZ have been working together to bring better cutting solutions to customers for over 30 years. Let the ACE team help you identify the right LUTZ industrial blade for your specific application so you can achieve the exact cut to reduce downtime, improve production, and improve blade life. With a reputation for quality and precise cutting, LUTZ Blades has been making blades ...

Beef and pork processing knives from American Cutting Edge are engineered to the highest standards and strictly follow the OEM specifications. Working in stainless, carbon, tool, and powdered steels, we have the industry knowledge and ability to supply you with a knife to cut your costs and increase your yield. Whether you’re needing off-the-shelf beef and pork processing equipment knives or you need a custom solution, ACE has a solution. Our warehousing agreem...

Shop Now Request a Quote ACE makes industrial knives and blades for a wide variety of applications globally including automotive glass, rubber, and tire manufacturing. Customers count on our circular knives, razor blades and knives, and hand knives, to help them improve profitability through greater lifetime and fewer blade changes. ACE offers in-stock options and custom blades engineered to your exact requirements in a variety of steels, powdered metals, and coatings. Wi...

Shop Now Request a Quote Shear slitting knives for paper, films, foils, and non-wovens have been widely used for many decades and has proven itself as a staple in the converting industry. American Cutting Edge offers a comprehensive range of precision ground slitting knives and blades. ACE brand blades are made to match or exceed OEM standards; paying close attention to important features such as surface finish and concentr...

Shop Now Request a Quote We stock thousands of plastic recycling knives including, granulator blades , rotor knives , bed knives , granulator screens , shredder blades , crown cutters, and holders , in hundreds of models of the most common brands used in the United States and Canada. American Cutting Edge is your ultimate source for plastic recycling knives. Search our vast inventory for your part . ACE offers granulating knives compatible with the following OEMs: ...

There are many considerations that go into determining the proper material and coating for your razor blade. The material being cut, the type of cut, the speed of the cut, and the desired durability of the blade all factor into selecting the proper material and coating. Below is a list of the most common razor blade materials and coatings American Cutting Edge offers. If you don’t see what you need or have additional questions then simply contact us , email us , or ca...

Request a Quote Since 1965, American Cutting Edge has been a market leader in the design and manufacturing of industrial machine knives and razors. Our extensive product selection provides same-day shipping of a wide array of granulating, pelletizing, food and meat processing, wood chipping, converting, textile and fiber processing, flooring, and steel cutting knives and razors. When an off-the-shelf solution won’t work for your sp...

Shop Now Request a Quote American Cutting Edge offers a comprehensive range of precision ground converting knives and blades made from the highest quality raw materials. Our blades are made to match or exceed OEM standards - paying close attention to important features such as surface finish and concentricity. This enables you to obtain the best possible results from your cutting, slitting, slicing or perforating operations. American Cutting Edge is now a preferred Mario ...

Since 1965, American Cutting Edge has been a market leader in the design and manufacturing of industrial machine knives and razors. Our extensive product selection provides same-day shipping of a wide array of granulating, pelletizing, food and meat processing, wood chipping, converting, textile and fiber processing, flooring, and steel cutting knives and razors. When an off-the-shelf solution won’t work for your specific application, American Cutting Edge has the experience and resource...

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Since 1965, C.B. Manufacturing and Sales Company, Inc. has been an industry-leading, family-owned company renowned for customer service, innovation and the highest standards of quality. Currently operating under the guidance of the second generation and under the name American Cutting Edge, the Biehn family continues to embody Charles “Charlie” Biehn’s legacy of commitment to customer satisfaction, value, and consumer-driver quality. A Cincinnat...

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September 11-13th Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada USA Booth SU-8449 Monday and Tuesday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm PT Wednesday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm PT We’re looking forward to seeing you at Pack Expo 2023 . Drive your business forward by harnessing the packaging and industrial blade expertise of the ACE team. Don’t miss the invaluable opportunity to see the latest packaging technology upfront and swing by booth SU-8449 to learn how ACE can help ...

May 6th to May 10th Orange County Convention Center Orlando, FL Booth #W1135 Monday, May 6th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 7th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 8th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Thursday, May 9th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 10th 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Join us at NPE2024, the largest and most innovative plastics trade show in the United States! Produced by the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), NPE2024 is back and better than ever ...

For over 50 years, CB Manufacturing and Sales Company has been providing industrial machine knives to a wide variety of industrial markets across North America. In addition to our high quality knives and blades, we are also well-known for our precision metal grinding services. To better reflect our core focus – industrial cutting – and to simplify our corporate structure, CB Manufacturing and Sales Company is now going to market as American Cutting Edge. Founde...

Shop Now Request a Quote Today’s form fill and seal packaging equipment is very precise and designed to run at very high speeds. Keeping this equipment running efficiently is very important and the knife is a very critical part of the machine. Having the proper knife can increase your production, reduce your downtime, and ultimately increase your profits. American Cutting Edge understands the needs of today’s equ...

American Cutting Edge innovated many of the advancements in the water-ring pelletizer blade market over the past 50 years. American Cutting Edge continues to lead the market by offering cost competitive blades at the tightest tolerances in the industry. By holding our blades to the tightest tolerances in the industry, we increase your blade life and reduce die plate wear. Contact your American Cutting Edge representative today for a no obligation trial order and we will pro...