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Tube Laser Cutting Services

Special Metal Alloys can offer their customers a NEW TUBE PROCESSING SERVICE for Tubular products in Stainless Steels and Nickel Alloys

Special Metal Alloys realise you will have to perform additional processing on your Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloy tubular products that you order from us.

That’s why we now offer Laser Tube Cutting Services.

How Tube Laser Cutting Helps You

Tube Laser Cutting will save time for you, cutting your stainless steel tubes and nickel alloy tubes to size, drilling , slotting or bevelling ends for weld preps.

These operations will be carried out to a high degree of accuracy repeatedly.

Laser cutting, or Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, is a high energy light beam that concentrates the energy to a pinpoint on the material.

By concentrating the energy it causes rapid localised melting and vaporisation of the material.

As the Laser beam follows the contour of the part required it melts the material as it moves. The molten metal is then blown away by an inert gas, i.e. Nitrogen for Stainless and Nickel Alloy products, creating a precise narrow kerf / line.

The accuracy and tight tolerances this process achieves means that intricate and difficult items can be produced without costly investment into tooling and labour costs.

Tube Cutting Services: Technical Data

  • process tubes up to ∅ 355 mm (14”)
  • bar weight up to 100 kg/m (67 lb/ft)
  • loading lengths up to 18 m (60’)
  • unloading lengths up to 18 m (60’)
  • laser source up to 3.5 kW
  • Automatic loading and unloading
  • cuttable materials: Stainless Steel, Nickel Alloys

PROCESSABLE SIZES STAINLESS STEEL / ALLOYS

Round Tube: from 12mm – 355mm Diameter Thickness : 8mm max

Square Sections: from 12mm – 250mm max Thickness : 8mm max

Rectangle Sections: from 12mm – 300mm x 200mm max Thickness : 8mm max

GRADES

Stainless austenitic steels

1.4301 / 304 1.4307 / 304L 1.4541 / 321 1.4401 / 316 1.4404 / 316L

1.4429 / 316LN 1.4435 / 316L 1.4436 / 316 1.4571 / 316Ti

Alloyed stainless steels

1.4539 / Alloy 904L 1.4547 / 254 SMO

Austenitic-ferritic steels

Lean-Duplex: 1.4162 – LDX2101 / 1.4362 – S32304

Duplex: 1.4462 – S31803 / S 32205

Super-Duplex: 1.4410 – S 32750 / 1.4501 – S 32760

Heat-resistant austenitic steels

1.4828/ 309 1.4841/ 310 1.4845/ 310S 1.4878/ 321H

Nickel-based alloys

2.4360 / Alloy 400 2.4816 / Alloy 600 2.4819 / Alloy C-276 2.4851 / Alloy 601

2.4856 / Alloy 625 1.4876 / Alloy 800 2.4858 / Alloy 825

Titanium

3.7025 / Grade 1 3.7035 / Grade 2

For further information on the Tube Laser Cutting services please contact one of our Sales Representatives on +44 [0]161 278 2386.

Or alternatively, contact us through this site or email your enquiry via sales@specialmetalalloys.co.uk

Please be aware that Minimum Order Quantities may apply on Mill orders