Industrial Machine Knife Replacement & Engineering Solutions

About Stellar Machine Knives
Stellar Machine Knives, LLC specializes in providing the highest quality Replacement Knives, Holders and Related Components for Converting departments, Printing, Finishing, Bindery and Direct Mail operations.
SMK also engineers and manufactures highly polished replacement knives for Food Processing Machinery as well as "The Longest Lasting Packaging Knives available".
Stellar Machine Knives, LLC provides Industrial Knives for Printing & Converting Operations of Paper & Paperboard, Corrugated & Honeycomb, Flexible Packaging Materials, Laminates, Plastic Film & Sheet materials, Thin Metallic Foils as well as Non-Woven Materials.
SMK provides a manufacturing system for Replacement Packaging Knives. Our system is simply "Packaging Knives typically do not get re-ground, so it makes sense to use the best High Speed Steel and Powdered Metal materials with matched coatings available to maximize wear and drastically improve downtime savings. Call SMK for a quote.
SMK Engineer's every item we have manufactured and sell to SMK's specifications. In the Industrial Knife World it is imperative to match the correct material and hardness to the application. SMK prides itself in finding solutions for knives everyone else doesn’t want to manufacture. We specialize in engineering and manufacturing hard to make or obsolete knives.
In addition, if SMK sells the knife, we usually can resharpen the knife. Only exception would be Toothed Knives usually do not get resharpened.
Contact SMK and we’ll look at your requirement and provide you with a quote, If it’s a part that doesn’t fit our factories capabilities, we will let you know sooner than later. It’s about honesty and trying our best to service the customer.
What we offer: New Knives, Resharpening Services, Standard & Heavy-Duty Air Holder Rebuilds
Converting, Printing, Finishing & Bindery Knives
- Dished Slitters
- Bottom Slitters
- RD Scorer Slitter w/Bearing
- RD Scorer Slitter w/out Bearing
- RD Scorer Metal Shielded Bearing
- Standard Air Holders
- Score Slitters
- Bearings & Axles
- American & European Replacement Hoses & Couplings
- other components
Food Processing Knives

Packaging & Vacuum Packaging Knives
- SMK offers Premium M2 HSS Packaging Knives as Standard with Powdered Metal Knives for longer lasting requirements and maximized downtime savings.
- Wear Coatings Available all of which were created for and matched for High-Speed Steel and Powdered Metal High Speed Materials for further wear resistance and better quality cuts.
- SMK recommends coating our knives because the materials we use are a perfect match for wear coatings. We do not use inferior materials and we do not use inferior low temperature coatings.
- SMK offers Premium M2 HSS Packaging Knives as Standard with Powdered Metal Knives for longer lasting requirements and maximized downtime savings.
- Wear Coatings Available all of which were created for and matched for High-Speed Steel and Powdered Metal High Speed Materials for further wear resistance and better quality cuts.
- SMK recommends coating our knives because the materials we use are a perfect match for wear coatings. We do not use inferior materials and we do not use inferior low temperature coatings.