Freud was making quite a claim at Ligna. It maintained that its ISOprofil cutter head system was the most ground-breaking development in tooling at the show and put the company “10 years ahead” of the competition.
But Freud UK sales manager Alan Ball insisted that the claim did stack up.
“The new system, which has taken four to five years to develop, ensures that the cutter maintains a constant diameter and a constant profile after sharpening,” he said. “It ensures a more consistent perfomance and longer cutting-head life. In fact it will cut the user’s blade costs by 40%.”
One of the keys to ISOprofil is the design of the clamping and wedge system. This ensures that when the knife is sharpened it is automatically pushed up to give a constant diameter. The simultaneous moulding of the wedge and tool body also ensures better chip distribution, while the blade itself is in a new longer-lasting, mirror-finished hard metal developed by Freud called Duramix.
The response to the launch, said Mr Ball, had been “fantastic”. “We’re already making 800 cutter heads for a Danish customer and anticipate a lot of interest in the UK, especially from wood window manufacturers.”
