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♦ Clean cuts
♦ Finely sawn edges
♦ Perfectly chiseled profiles
The specialities under
review here are so strongly
associated with accuracy
and precision that, in an
industry renowned for
fidelity to set standards
and exact measurement,
they may seem to be first
among equals.
In the industrial setting,
excellence is never
an accident; and the
perfection that is expected,
and routinely found, in the
pieces coming off the line
in a modern tube cutting
mill come from a culture of
perfectibility.
A unit makes compound curve cuts while providing angular abutment of tube ends on
opposing tube surfaces. A laser-driven robotic cutter creates four unique and faultless
parts from a single tube. Cold saw equipment produces a dimple-free, burr-free cut with
a minimum of setup and operator expertise – anticipating today’s business ethos of
commitment to important savings in
time, labour, and money.
No more nor less than any other tube
making process, cutting, sawing,
and profiling are very advanced
technologies.
But their association with caliper
precision makes them worthy
exemplars of an industry that itself
was built on exactitude in the service
of productivity.
 Carbide tipped and HSS blade technology from WD Quinn Saw Co (see page 98)
Cutting, Sawing & Profiling
Technology
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 Tube laser cutting using technology from Rofin (see page 86)