Water Jet Germany Supplies Cutting Machine to IDMC

Water Jet Germany, a Chennai-based company manufacturing and exporting water jet cutting machines, has supplied a water jet cutting machine to IDMC, Gujarat. T Veerappan, Chief Regional Manger, Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai inaugurated the water jet cutting machine at the company’s unit in Sriperumbudur. The machine of the dimension of 3m x 7m weighing over 4000kg will be used by IDMC in their plant at Anand, Gujarat.  Veerappan said, “There is a huge potential for water jet cutting machines in India and in future we will see even bigger machines being manufactured and used in India.”

Water jet cutting uses high pressure water to cut softer materials like rubber/foam, and abrasive jets adds abrasives (garnet sand) to water to cut harder materials like steel, granite and titanium. The high pressure water is forced through a tiny orifice to concentrate high energy in a tiny area to cut. The high pressure pump developing a pressure of more than 4,100 bar can cut up to 300 mm of steel.

The main advantages of the technology are it is a cold cutting process, the mechanism requires few secondary operations, the process causes no heat distortion or mechanical stresses and can cut with narrow kerfs and does not create any hazardous material.

Water jet cutting is used for stainless steel fabrication, floor designs in marble / tiles, letter cutting in brass / stainless steel, cutting of bullet proof glass, aluminum, titanium and composites for aircraft etc. Water jet finds applications in aerospace, architectural, automotive, defence, metal fabrication, marble and tiles and construction industry.