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Water jet cutting
Our advanced waterjet cutting machine allows us to produce complex shapes, in a broad range of materials, to extremely tight tolerances.
Producing a 0.8 mm jet of water at 60,000 PSI, the water-jet machine allows us to cut intricate shapes to tolerances of +/- 0.2 mm—removing 1 mm of material. Individual items may be cut to approximately 3 m x 1.5 m and to a depth of 200 mm.
A wide variety of materials may be cut by waterjet, including steel, stainless steel, granite, wood, aluminium, plastic, perspex, foam, carbon fibre, Kevlar and composite materials. Traditionally, composites were cut by diamond saw; however this process is limited to cutting straight lines—waterjet cutting can produce complex, intricate shapes.
The process also allows for extremely flexible quantity requirements to be met—from rapid prototyping for development work to full volume production. Regardless of quantity requirements, waterjet technology cost-effectively produces components to a consistent quality standard.
Water jet cutting produces no inherent material changes so, unlike laser cutting, there is no work-hardening of edges. Edges are left perfectly clean, without the need for further machining or labour-intensive finishing.
Our technical support team can advise on the most appropriate process for specific requirements and, if required, we will work with our established network of strategic partners to source materials.
We have produced components and materials across a range of applications, including the automotive, aerospace and defence sectors; our expertise has also been used in some of the country’s most high profile construction projects, including the major redevelopment of St Pancras Station, the new home of Eurostar.