Dienes, a leading manufacturer of slitting systems and knife holders, has introduced its improved glasshard shafts to the market.

The quality of the glasshard counter shaft is of decisive importance to achieve optimum crush cutting results, the company says. Dienes offers glasshard shafts tailored to customer demand and adjusted to the respective knives and knife holders for optimum tool service life. In addition, Dienes can provide surfaces with super finished or polished quality, and optional dynamic balancing.

The Dienes glasshard shafts are available as solid, hollow (one or two pieces), cooled or heated shaft with standard or special dimensions.

According to Dienes, its glasshard shaft advantages include:

• Exact crush cut knife hardness matched to the special surface-hardened slitting shafts
• Regrindable several times and usable even to the extreme edge due to its high hardening depth
• Increased service life and thus higher productivity
• Optimum slitting tool service life
• First-class slitting edge quality
• Exceptional price/performance relation

Dienes Corporation was founded in 1954 and has been operating from a modern 40,000 sq. ft. facility in Spencer, Massachusetts, USA, since 1977. Fifty plus employees design, manufacture and distribute the full range of Dienes products from knives to automatic positioning systems. From Spencer it services the NAFTA region of North America; Mexico and Canada. Their sales staff includes experts dedicated to serve customers in the nonwovens, paper and plastics markets.

Dienes Corporation, USA is part of the Dienes group which includes six facilities in Overath and Remscheid, Germany; Piliscsaba, Hungary; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Inowroclaw, Poland; and Spencer, Massachusetts, USA. For more information about the entire Dienes group visit www.dienes.de.