Enabling product line expansion: People & Companies

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END USER: The M.K. Morse Co., (800) 733-3377, www.mkmorse.com. CHALLENGE: Eliminate dirt and debris from machine coolant when grinding cermet-tipped saw blades. SOLUTION: Filtration system capable of removing particles to 1μm. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Transor Filter USA, (800) 354-3040, www.transorfilter.com

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After more than 45 years in business, The M.K. Morse Co. is a stalwart presence in the field of manufacturing saw blades and power tool accessories. While serving the industrial, construction and welding markets, the Canton, Ohio, firm has introduced a range of sawing products, including bimetal and carbon bandsaw blades and specially engineered carbide-tipped blades.

With every new addition to its product line and services, M.K. Morse has had to negotiate new challenges and find new ways of doing things. One recent example is the company’s introduction of its Revolution thin-kerf, 360mm cermet-tipped saw blade for high-volume cutting of ferrous and nonferrous metals.

Courtesy of Transor Filter USA

The Transor unit provides 1μm filtered oil to this Vollmer grinding machine as it as it produces a M.K. Morse Revolution thin-kerf, cermet tipped circular saw blade.

Compared to the company’s other circular and bandsaw blades, the cermet-tipped products are more intricate and demand greater accuracy, said Ed Galosi, product engineering manager for M.K. Morse. “If you’re talking about a carbide-tipped blade for wood, the tolerances can be easily in the thousandths of an inch, maybe even up to 0.010 “. In a metalcutting, carbide-tipped blade, maybe 0.004 ” or 0.006 “; but as we move into cermets, the tolerances could be 0.002 ” or less in all dimensions.”