Is water capable of cutting materials that are eight inches thick? You bet – with our waterjet and precision machining equipment.
Waterjet cutting combines cutting and machining into a single process. And it can accomplish amazing feats! It has the precision to cut a wide range of materials, complex shapes, and detailed corners with a high degree of accuracy. Using this technology, we can rapidly transform your ideas into completed projects.
Cutting at room temperature, there’s no heat-affected zone, thermal stress, hardening, or annealing of material. We can achieve net or near-net shapes right off the machine. The process produces a smooth, satin-like finish with superior edge quality – no metal contamination, distortion, fraying, cracking, or delamination.
The narrow kerf width enables close nesting of parts and raw material savings, and it’s easy to pierce starter holes. Since different jobs don’t require different tooling, there’s no need for costly and time-consuming tool changes.
It’s easy to process both reflective and nonconductive materials. And multiple-head cutting and material stacking reduces overall unit cost and increases productivity.
No other tool cuts or machines a greater variety of materials. These are just some of the materials that our waterjet cutting system can handle:
Aluminum
Brass
Composites
Copper
Foam
Glass
Hastelloy
Inconel
Laminates
Phenolics
Plastics
Paper
Stainless steel
Steel
Steel alloys
Stone
Tile
Titanium
Wax
How Does It Work?
First of all, the abrasive waterjet cutting system consists of several components: a filtration system, a high-pressure pump, an abrasive hopper, a cutting head, and a catch tank.
Water from the filtration system gets pressurized through an intensifier pump and travels through stainless tubing to the cutting head, where the abrasive is introduced. Water then exits the cutting head at three times the speed of sound and 60,000 psi. The system cuts the material using supersonic erosion, and then the stream dissipates into the catch tank.
Amazing, isn’t it?
