Grades

The knife technology is also marked by innovations. 

Constantly improved alloys for knife steel dynamically increase the knife's service life: up to 60 times when compared to a so-called Swedish-steel knife!

• SS (Swedish-steel) knives 
• HSS super-speed steel knives with a tungsten content of 18 % are the most frequently used guillotine knives worldwide showing four times the standard service life. They are very good value for money and perfectly cut the most common materials. 
• CARBIDE-TIPPED knives

CARBIDE-TIPPED knives due to their ultra fine grain quality reach service lives up to 10 times longer than usual. They are perfectly suited for the most different cutting materials.

LONGLIFE knives are an enhancement of the above described carbide-tipped knives. However, they are made of a super fine tungsten carbide. They allow to obtain 20 times the normal service life.

GENESIS knives are characterized by an increase of 40 times the normal service life. The ultra fine grain carbide used for manufacturing this knife is suitable for cutting everything from paper and cardboard to very hard materials.

VITECH knives are considered as a benchmark. They are exclusively produced by Hagedorn and obtain unsurpassed cutting results. When it comes to service life, they reach completely new dimensions: An increase in service life of 60 times when compared to Swedish steel is the most common result which our users experience every day.

VITECH knives are the benchmark for success and performance. VITECH knives provide maximum cutting output and reach completely new dimensions. In practice, the cutting performance is increased to 600 % compared to a good-quality carbide-tipped knife. In addition to being very hard and durable, the VITECH knife provides a noticeable reduction in both nicks and chips in the cutting blade. The knife remains free of stress and absolutely straight due to a worldwide patented bonding method, which is implemented during production. The hard metal is not soldered onto the base material, but glued to it at high strength and at a low temperature. This allows cuts to be more precise and gives the knife greater durability when cutting any material which can be processed on guillotines and three-knife trimmers. Top cutting machine producers consider VITECH knife as their best choice for solving any cutting problems related to knives. And 70 % of all cutting problems are caused by choosing the wrong knife quality for your application.