The satisfaction of our customers, from the small craftsman’s workshop to the global industrial company, has always been, and still is, the focus of our activities.
We guarantee optimal customer proximity and competent support through our worldwide network of our own sales, service and production companies as well as through the high qualification and continuous training of our employees.
Our motivation is always to find the best solution for our customers. All of the knowledge and experience we obtain from our customer interactions in all industries we transfer forward. Therefore, increasing the quality of products, optimizing production times and reducing customer cost.
TKM is future-oriented, creative, responsible
Summary
Based on high quality raw material, the TKM GmbH executes all production steps on fully automatic machines. Unique: as an example, each TKM log saw blade is, before the delivery, inspected to all dimensional values by the most modern automated inspection equipment available.
This includes the important step of dynamic balance. Additionally, an internal record is established for each log saw blade for future tracking purposes. The high quality and consistency of the log saw blade in combination with the technical service provides significant cost reduction on the customer side.
The details
The quality of a tool starts with the raw material. Therefore, TKM utilizes for since many years a middle-sized German steel manufacturer, which specializes in high quality tool steels. Furthermore, TKM invests every year into new and fully automatic machines and inspection equipment. The latest investment has been a fully automatic heat treatment furnace, to guarantee the highest possible hardness and consistency of the steel structure. The blades move, step by step, through different and fully automated grinding processes before they arrive at our unique sharpening device. Every blade gets sharpened, a dynamic balance check and a check of axial and radial runout as well as the stiffness/tension measurement to specification follow.
Finally, all relevant parameters and an individual blade number is engraved on every blade, so that TKM can trace every single blade.
Cost reduction through the highest possible productivity of the converting lines
The application of log saw blades is quite complex. Mounted on a rotating arm with an additional axial movement and regularly sharpened by CBN grinding wheels, the blade needs to cut tissue paper rolls on different types of machines. Additionally, the tissue paper rolls have very different characteristics (i.e. composition of paper and core, number of plies, diameters, hardness, type of embossing and types of glue). Therefore, training and a survey are customized for every customer and a standard technical service is provided twice a year. The survey considers all machine parameters, the condition of the machine, the log saw blade and the CBN grinding wheels. The technical training with all persons who are involved in the cutting applications, considers the problems on the cutting application per machine. In conjunction with the customer, the TKM experts work out step by step options for improvements on the cutting quality and/or the lifetime of the equipment.
Find always the best solution for our customers
Be part of a greener future – the new recycling program for Log Saw Blades
TKM recycles used Log Saw Blades, which has many advantages for the environment. The used Log Saw Blades are collected from the customer and the steel mill uses them to produce the steel for new Log Saw Blades. In detail: the high-quality D2 steel consists of Iron, a high amount of Chromium as well as Vanadium and Molybdenum. The iron is extracted from iron ore with a high energy consumption. The iron ore comes mainly from South Africa, Brazil and Australia, which means enormous transport distances. The most important chromium, vanadium and molybdenum mines are also located far away from Europe, which means long transport distances as well. The processing into a usable alloy is also complex. The process of bringing all the components together is therefore too complex to calculate the CO2 emissions and energy consumption per ton of D2 steel in detail. However, it is very easy to understand that a ton of used Log Saw Blades, which already contains all the components, is in comparison much more ecological and energy/CO2 saving.
TKM GmbH
The name TKM stands for a globally operating group of companies which manufactures machine knives and machine elements for the paper, wood, metal, plastics, rubber and recycling industry. The production of machine knives began in 1908. The registered office of the group, which cultivates worldwide business relations, is located in Remscheid. The group operates production sites in Germany, Austria, Finland and China. The distribution of the products is effected by sales representatives, affiliates, joint venture partners and agencies. Long as well as round machine knives for all existing cutting systems and almost all materials are manufactured and sold. Continuous research regarding the further development of materials and production processes as well as decades of experience have made the TKM Group a global player and one of the greatest knife specialists.
Products
Log Saw, Machine knives.
