Water jet cutting service is an erosive process that utilizes high-pressure water to cut through different materials and turn them into different shapes. It can be used to cut products such as food, textile, foam, rubber gasket, and so on. Once combined with an abrasive, water jet cutting becomes more powerful in cutting harder materials like stone, ceramic, aluminum, steel, glass, and more. The machines provide better alternatives to other cutting technologies like plasma or laser cutting and other traditional cutting techniques like punching and milling. The key advantage of this cutting service is that it requires no heat to cut through the material.
Without the use of such heat, water jet cutting service eliminates or minimizes the need for post-cutting heat treatment. This makes it even more useful in applications involving aircraft parts. Pure water-only cutting has various applications in cutting soft materials. It also offers a cleaner, wear-free method when working with food products like meat. When cutting softer materials such as foam, the process may result in stacking of various sheets and single-line cutting. When it comes to cutting harder materials like a gasket, then it is also very beneficial in producing low-volume prototypes. It also works perfectly in reducing the production of dust.
In addition, while the water jet cutting service leaves a small kerf after the cutting process, yet the stream makes the edges go smooth without sharp corners. Finally, it is recognized as a clean procedure because it generates no swath on the cut edges as well as the process involves no burning. When compared to plasma cutting, water jet works for many kinds of materials not just for electrically conductive ones. However, unlike plasma, it does not come as a handheld or portable device. Hence, it is better for in-shop applications and not for productions done in the fieldwork.
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