TPT May 2013

Cutting

Cutting

Photo: PSW Consultants (engineering) Ltd – UK

Today, an average-size or even a small tube and pipe plant is likely to command impressive cutting capacity, with a single highly flexible machine able to cut a variety of profiles either at the end of the tube or along its length. Employing one tool in a single cycle to cut round, square, rectangular, flat, oval, and virtually any other form, the unit will outperform cutters that only recently were state- of-the-art. Very likely it automatically loads and positions the tubes without operator intervention

and allows for storage of tube bundles. But some things never change, not even in a universe of 3D modelling, CNC profiling, and cold saw and plasma cutting. To cut or saw any tube is to create two new surfaces that must be clean, flawless, and caliper- precise. This is the province of professionals who see it as their responsibility to assist those who cut tube and pipe, by whatever method, to do it perfectly the first time.