Laser And Plasma Metal Cutting

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Metal cutting is an important industrial need, and whole industry has emerged out of this. Before an industrial plant can build, assemble or repair products made of metal, they will always cut and shape the material to suit the requirements of a particular project in the creation of a product. Given that metals are generally hard and tough to cut through, metal cutting involves multiple processes and different tools. Metal cutting can be done either manually with simple tools like chisel and metal hacksaw or mechanically with the use of sophisticated methods such as laser and plasma. Laser Cutting: Laser cutting is a technology that uses a high-power laser beam to cut not only metals, but also other materials to precise shapes and patterns according to the cutting requirements. It is applied to many different kinds of materials where complex contours demand accurate, quick and force-free processing. Laser cutting does not show any distortion and normally, post-processing is not needed because the material often comes out perfectly as far as further processing to achieve a particular shape or pattern is concerned. In the past, this method was typically used for industrial manufacturing applications, but over the past few years, it has started to be utilized for applications that are far less demanding than industrial.


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