Flat or semi-flat materials like metal, glass, plastic, foam, marble, stone and wood are cut using either pure water or water mixed with abrasive particles like garnet or diamond for added strength. These are used on tougher materials like metal and stone. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Precision Cutting Service, Inc.
Savannah, GA | 912-233-9550Let Precision show you the benefits of water jet cutting. The experienced professionals at Precision are specialists in high-quality, precision fabricated and finished component parts, including custom and OEM gaskets. With accuracies up to +/-.005 on a wide range of materials, Precision can easily cut complex shapes with no material distortion for superior edges at lower costs.
New England Water Jet Cutting
New Bedford, MA | 508-993-9235New England Water Jet Cutting specialize in abrasive waterjet cutting services. It allows us to cut steel sheets up to 6 inches thick. They can cut through any material period and are well known for their customer service. Traditional values like honesty and integrity forms the foundation of the company, and have helped them become one of New England's leading water jet cutting shops.
Chicago Waterjet, Inc.
Elk Grove Village, IL | 847-350-1898With a state-of-the-art production facility dedicated to high-quality water jet cutting, Chicago offers capabilities for virtually any material with accuracy as close as +/-.001. Chicago specializes in meeting today's demanding deadlines and its personal attention to detail provides its customers with consistent quality services at the most competitive prices. Call now!
Advanced Cutting Technologies, Inc.
Aberdeen, NC | 877-944-3028When you choose ADCUT, you choose a skilled, experienced crew for your waterjet cutting and abrasive jet cutting needs. ADCUT works with a huge variety of materials, offering superior waterjet cutting services to industrial & commercial clients and the personal consumer. Contact us for your project.
Waterjet Cutting - Hydro-Lazer, Inc.Products cut using water jets have clean, smooth cuts without any burrs, and since no heat is used during processing, the material properties like temperature resistance and color are not altered. Depending on the strength of the material being cut and the desired rate of production, water jet cutter nozzles spray water at pressures between 30,000 and 90,000 pounds per square inch (PSI).
The automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, food processing, lumber, architectural, building construction and electronic industries all use or manufacture products that go through the water jet cutting process during fabrication. Machinery components like gears, tiles and mirrors as well as car, train and plane components and stone flooring are often shaped by the water jet cutting process.
Most modern water jet cutting machines are fully automated and use CNC (computer numerical controlled) software to determine and control the route of the jet; the labor cost of water jet cutting processes can be low for this reason. A drawing of the desired shape or design is downloaded into CAD/CAM software, and the water jets follow its path.
Close precision reduces waste and the need for secondary machining processes. It does not create any harmful dust or particles that workers could inhale, and it produces high volumes of products with minimal waste or scrap material. The water jet cutters are mostly made of stainless steel and contain a water reservoir, abrasive containers and a high pressure water pump with a nozzle attached.
Both the water and any abrasives used are recycled many times through the machine. They are combined in a mixing tube, shot through a nozzle at high pressure and then re-circulated back into their separate storage areas. Water jet cutters are very effective and can cut many materials; the exceptions are brittle materials like some ceramic varieties as well as strong materials like diamond, which are too strong to be cut by water.