Material cutting is the biggest segment of the laser application. Most of them are medium-high power metal laser cutting. The metals mentioned here includes stainless steel, carbon steel, copper, aluminum and so on.
Laser plate cutting turns to laser tube cuttingNowadays, domestic laser cutting machines have become quite mature whose power range can meet most of the demands of the applications. There are more than 600 enterprises in the laser plate cutting sector in which there are fierce competition.
2D laser plate cutting entered low-profit era. This forced many laser cutting machine manufacturers to search for new application and bigger profit. Luckily, they did find it and that is laser tube cutting.
In fact, laser tube cutting is not a novel application and many years ago, some enterprise launched similar products. But at that time, laser tube application had few applications and the price was huge, so laser tube cutting wasn’t widely promoted. Many manufacturers were facing big competition in the laser plate cutting machine market with low profit, so they turned to manufacture laser tube cutting machines whose laser source is fiber laser. For the time being, laser tube cutting market is still profitable with big potential, so those manufacturers continue to add new technology and new functions to the laser tube cutting machine, such as plate & tube laser cutting machine, auto loading and unloading laser tube cutting machine, tri-chuck laser tube cutting machine and so on to attract buyers.
Steel tube is applied in various industriesMetal tube has a wide range of applications in different industries. General tubes are normally 10 meters long or even 20 meters long. Because of different applications, these tubes need to be cut to different shape or different size to suit the specific need. There are 3 important processing techniques in metal tube processing: cutting, bending and welding.
In 2019, the steel tube production capacity in our country was around 84176000 tons, accounting for more than 50% of the total production. At the same time, our country is also the biggest steel tube consuming country in the world.
Steel tubes are mainly used in water supply system, drainage system and LPG transmission project. Nowadays, cold water supply systems have mainly changed to use plastic tube. But in electricity, engineering construction, home construction, automobile, agricultural machinery, and sports facility, steel tube is still the major player.
Advantage of laser tube cutting
Traditional steel tube cutting used saw to do the cutting. From manual to semi-automatic and to fully automatic, tube cutting technique reached the “highest ceiling” and met a bottleneck. Fortunately, laser tube cutting technique was introduced to the tube industry and it is very suitable for cutting different kinds of metal tubes. Featuring high efficiency, high productivity and high automation, laser tube cutting is very applicable in mass production without changing parts in the middle of the operation.
The advent of laser tube cutting machine revolutionizes the metal tube cutting industry. Laser cutting technique rapidly replaces many traditional low efficiency machinery cutting. And laser tube cuttings are adding more and more new functions, meeting almost all sorts of requirements of different kinds of tubes.
For the time being, laser tube cutting technique just began a few years ago and it has very great potential coming forward.
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