Structural steel manufacturing with Hypertherm solutions

Whether cutting steel girders for holding up bridges or steel beams for holding up buildings, Hypertherm plasma solutions are hard at work in structural steel plants around the world.

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Spend less time cutting, fitting, and welding your equipment

Hypertherm solutions help improve productivity, reduce costs, reduce floorspace and improve operator’s safety. Replacement of commonly used oxyfuel torches to plasma allows quantifiable gains in cut quality, speed of cut, and reductions in setup times, material distortion and fuel gas consumption.

Structural steel fabricators around the world use XPR™ plasma systems with X-Definition^® technology to improve cut quality, streamline operations, and increase market share by increasing their business opportunities.
A single Hypertherm HyPerformance^® plasma system in an automated cell can replace up to seven individual fabricating machines used for tasks like beveling, sawing, marking, coping, drilling, punching, and shearing.
Handheld plasma cutting systems are widely used in this industry as well when design changes or last-minute fit-up is necessary to keep the job on schedule. FlushCut™ consumables are perfect for creating rat holes and removing flanges with minimal secondary grinding.

Typical uses include:

Cutting plate to size
Piercing holes in steel plate
Cutting rods and tubes to length
Cutting structural beams, baseplates, flanges, gussets, frames, and girders
Coping beams and structural tube so on-site fit-up is perfect
Automated plate edge finishing of A,V, Y and K bevel angles for weld preparation

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Bevel cutting

Plasma bevel cutting for weld preparation, on CNC tables or robotic cells, produces consistent and accurate profiles, with high-quality cuts to avoid secondary steps.

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Hole cutting

Many jobs require the addition of holes to bolt two or more pieces or parts together, so hole production is an important part of most cutting operations.

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Flush cutting

FlushCut^® consumables for Powermax^® systems allow easy removal of protrusions, welded attachments, bolts, and fixtures from metal surfaces without cutting into the base material.

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Temporary attachment removal

Flush cutting with Powermax^® plasma systems lets you cut closer to base materials than ever before, reducing costly, time consuming secondary operations. Cleaner cuts with less damage to the base metal saves costs in reusable temporary attachments.

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Robotic plasma cutting

Robotic cutting systems let you cut any workpiece, including structural steel shapes, pipes, tubes, and domes. Combined with advances in robot programming, automated cutting solutions dramatically increase productivity, increasing cut speeds, cut quality, and productivity in low-volume runs.

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CAM programming

CAM software helps drive the manufacturing process. CAD/CAM nesting software is typically used for programming mechanized flat plate cutting, offering fabricators and manufacturers a single software solution for all of their profile cutting needs. This combination solution provides all of the necessary functionality to complete the job, from CAD concept, to part preparation, to nesting, to numeric code output.

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