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FOR THE STEEL
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Added-value original spares
for flat and long product mills
thanks to Danieli design
and manufacturing expertise

thicknesses between
5 and 50 mm.
Mechanical shear
for final cut-to-lenght
of bars and profiles.
Turret-type design side
trimmer with rotary knives
and scrap chopper for
strip processing lines.

>DanCut< Top quality knives for the steel industry

Details of cutting phases

and knives equipment
installation, in clockwise
order: pendulum shear
slab cutting at the caster
exit side; rocking-type
side trimming shear
capable of covering
the full range of plate

Thanks to years of experience in engineering

and manufacturing Danieli has developed its own knife
line for flat and long products. These knives contain
all the Danieli design and process know-how
and are manufactured with the newest technological
solutions. Customized solutions are available according
to product mix and the strictest customer requirements.

Materials
The shear blade is the only component that
actually comes into contact with the processed
material. It has to be tough enough and must
have very good wear resistance in order
to perform high-quality cutting and minimize
production stops.
Danieli's target is to supply the optimal
technical and economical solution for the
customer's specific shearing application. For this
purpose Danieli has developed three different
series of materials:
DanCut 300 series for cold cutting
DanCut 500 series for hot cutting
DanCut 700 series for cutting in extreme
conditions.
Each material in these categories
will be specifically chosen by Danieli engineers
according to the customer's product mix
and shearing application.

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ISO 14001 Cert. No 0237A/0

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ISO 9001 Cert. No 0218

ISO 3834-2

Mill services
Danieli Service provides its knives with
a complete information and assistance for a
proper setting up, grinding, and refurbishment
services, to increase their lifetime.
DanCut knives are designed to allow as many
multiple grinding operations as possible.
Thanks to the refurbishing operations and
the supply of customized shims, the customer
will always have new knives with the same
cutting quality and a longer total lifetime.
The regrinding process is integrated
with a feedback and monitoring system
for complete traceability of each DanCut
knife supplied.
Danieli provides the optimal solution for
managing knives, spare parts rotation and
refurbishing operations, in order to achieve
the best plant performance and to obtain
operational cost savings.
Danieli Service breathes new life into used
knives!

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Registrations
No IT-3903

Directive 97/23/CE - H Cert. No 009

ASME Stamp Holder Certificates

No. 36612 and 36613

Main DanCut knife

production steps: engineering
department develops
knives design and defines
materials as necessary
for the customer shear
working conditions. Accurate
programming and control of
CNC machining cycle and
heat treatments, carried out
in Danieli workshops, are
granting the final product
quality, certified by final
tests.

Hot strip mill shear blades

Plate mill shear blades

Cold rolling and processing

shear blades

Rotary side trimming

shear blades

Series of hot cutting blades

for standard and high-speed
drum shears in the process
section, and for pendulum shears
after the slab caster.
Blades are especially designed
to improve cutting quality and
are made of special alloy steel
grades to withstand heavy cutting
conditions (up to 1150 C).

Group of blades used for cold

cutting of thick material up to
50 mm, for dividing shears, side
trimmers, scrap choppers and
slitting shears. Made of highalloy steel grades in lengths up
to 6000 mm. Special alloy steel
grade blades are also applied
in hot cutting before the cooling
beds on drum and guillotine
type shears.

Family of cold cutting blades

for thin material usually installed
on single cut or drum shears,
used in Cold Reversing Mills,
Temper Mills, Skin-Pass Mills,
Pickling Lines, Galvanizing Lines,
Annealing Lines etc.
Blades are made of high-alloy
steel grades customized for each
application in order to perform
high-precision cuts.

Group of cold cutting disc

blades used for strip and plate
(up to 30 mm) side trimming
with high cut edge quality.
These knives are made of
high-alloy steel grades in
diameters up to 1600 mm.

Pendulum shear knives

Rocking type side

trimmer knife

Rocking type dividing shear knife

Rotary side trimmer shear knives

Drum shear knife

Single cut guillotine shear knife

Long product
cut-to-length shear blades

Long product flying

shear blades

Family of cold cutting blades

with straight or especially
shaped cutting edge, able to
simultaneously cut to length
multiple profiles.
Those blades are made in highalloy steel grades characterized
by a high toughness, necessary
for this kind of application.

Family of hot and cold (QTB)

cutting blades with straight or
especially shaped cutting edge,
used for head and tail cutting,
cut to length and emergency
cropping.
Blades are made in special highalloy steel grades with the best
ratio between toughness and
wear resistance.

Flying shear knife

Hot cutting flying shear

for long products knife

Cut-to-length shear for bars

and flat profiles knives

1 Pendulum shear at the

exit side of the slab
caster. The shear and
knives design is optimized
to prevent deformations in
the slab head and tail.
2 Danieli 1.2-Mtpy Quality
Strip Production line.
In foreground the rotary
drum shear fitted with
two sets of knives: their
specific design ensure
cuts to minimize the
shock loading on the work
rolls and an even outer
wrap on the finished coil.

Flying shear for bars knife

3 Danieli 1.1-Mtpy plate/

Steckel mill operate with
the rotary crop shear at
the exit side to cut the
master plate into several
mother plates.
4 500,000-tpy superflexible
rolling mill.
Emergency shear at the
entry side of the first SHS
stand.
5 Pendulum shear for cold
cut-to-length for bars and
sections.
6 Mechanical shear for cold
cut-to-length of bars.

Flying shear for "C" profile knives

Cut-to-length shear for bars

and flat section knives

Flying shear for long

products knife

Cut-to-length shear
for angles knife

Drum shear for

long products knives

Danieli design and manufacturing

Danieli knives are produced with the most modern
and high-performance equipment such as CNC
milling machines with automatic, indexable highspeed milling heads; horizontal CNC grinding/
profiling machines with automatic grinding cycles
for flat and profiled surfaces; and surface grinding
machines for segment and peripheral grinding
with 11-axes CNC control.
Steel grades of knives and all heat treatments
are tested and certified according to standard
ISO 9001:2000 in order to supply top performance
products.
The lines of Danieli Knives provide the customer
with a range of products that optimize the
shearing process in terms of QLC (cutting Quality,
knife Lifetime to reduce operating Costs).

1 Inconel knife for HSM

pendulum shear during
front radius (21500 mm)
machining.
2 Hardness check on knife
in the quality control
department before
delivery to the customer.

DanCut knives: materials vs applications

Plant type

Application

Type of shear

Knife material

Material description

Hot strip mill

& continuous
casting

Slab hot cutting.

Slab temperature
from 700 to
1100 C

Pendulum shears
(after continuous
casting machine)

DanCut710

Special Nickel-Chrome alloy with outstanding resistance to hot work environments

able to cut up to 110 mm of slab thickness.

DanCut510

Standard steel grade for hot cutting suggested only for plant start-up & set-up
purposes.

Transfer bar hot

cutting. Transfer
bar temperature
from 900 to 1100C

Drum and crank

shears

DanCut510

Standard steel grade for high temp. applications and transfer bar
thicknesses up to 60 mm.

DanCut520

Improved steel grade for high temp. applications with better thermal shock
resistance and wear resistance.

Strip cutting before

down-coilers.
Strip temperature
from 200 to 650C

High speed drum

shears

DanCut510

Standard Steel grade for high temp. applications suitable for intermediate temp.
cutting of thicknesses up to 10 mm.

DanCut550

Special long life steel grade for intermediate temp. cutting with extreme toughness
and high wear resistance.*

Plate hot cutting.

Plate temperature
from 700 to
1100 C

Drum shears

DanCut510

Standard steel grade for high temp. applications and plate thicknesses up to 60 mm.

DanCut520

Improved steel grade for high temp. applications with better thermal shock resistance
and wear resistance.

Plate cutting before

cooling bed.
Plate temperature
from 400 to 900C

Static shears

DanCut510

Standard Steel grade for high temp. applications suitable for intermediate
temp. cutting of thicknesses up to 50 mm.

DanCut550

Special long life steel grade for intermediate temp. cutting with extreme toughness
and high wear resistance.*

Plate cold cutting,

slitting & trimming
(rocking type).
Plate temperature
up to 150C

Dividing, slitting,
side trimming &
scrap chopping
shears

DanCut335

Standard steel grade with good toughness and improved wear resistance especially
for side trimming of small thicknesses.

DanCut345

Standard Steel grade with very high toughness and good wear resistance specific
for cold cutting up 50 mm plate thickness.

DanCut346

Improved toughness steel grade for heavy shearing applications with wear resistance
comparable to the previous material.

DanCut335

Standard steel grade with good toughness and improved wear resistance for side
trimming of small thicknesses.

DanCut345

Steel grade with very high toughness and good wear resistance for side trimming
up to 30 mm plate thickness.

DanCut310

Steel grade for strip cutting up to 3 mm approx. and excellent wear resistance.

DanCut320

Steel grade for strip cutting up to 6 mm approx. and very good wear resistance.

DanCut335

Steel grade for strip cutting up to 15 mm approx. and very good wear resistance.

DanCut345

Steel grade for special steel cutting where elevated toughness combined with good
wear resistance is required.

DanCut346

Improved toughness steel grade for special steel shearing applications

with good wear resistance.

DanCut510

Standard steel grade for high temp. applications with good thermal shock
resistance and wear resistance.

DanCut520

Improved steel grade for high temp. applications with better thermal shock
resistance and wear resistance.

DanCut330

Specially heat treated standard steel grade with good toughness

and high wear resistance.

DanCut335

Specially heat treated steel grade with improved toughness and good wear resistance.

DanCut550

Special long life steel grade with extreme toughness and high wear resistance.*

DanCut345

Standard Steel grade with very high toughness and good wear resistance specific
for cold cutting up to high sections.

DanCut346

Improved toughness steel grade for heavy shearing applications with wear resistance
comparable to the previous material.

Plate mill &

steckel plate mill

Cold rolling mills,

processing lines
and cut to length
lines

Long product
rolling mill

Plate cold side

trimming
(rotary type).
Plate temperature
up to 150C

Rotary side
trimming shears

Strip cold cutting.

Strip temperature
< 150C

Drum shears,
static single cut
shear, guillotine
shears, side
trimming and
scrap chopper
shears

Hot Cutting
(above 700C)

Flying shears

Intermediate
temperature
and QTB.
Cutting (from 150
to 700C)

Flying and drum

shears

Cold cut to length

(up to 150C)

Mechanical and
pendulum shears

Material selection will be performed by Danieli Service engineers and might change in function of the sheared steel grade characteristics.
(* for further information please contact Danieli Service engineers)

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