Sunday, December 17, 2006

CMS UK now offers waterjet cutting systems

Tecnocut waterjet CNC cutting systems - with hundreds of systems installed worldwide - are now available from Nottingham based company CMS Group UK.
Tecnocut established in 1992 are specialists in the design and manufacture of CNC waterjet cutting systems with many hundreds of machines installed worldwide. * Mutual Benefits - CMS a large Italian company specialising in the design and manufacture of a range of sophisticated 5-axis CNC machining centres for a wide variety of applications. Further enlargement of CMS came in 2005 when Tecnocut joined the group.
Mutual benefits from the merge ensure Tecnocut have the opportunity of benefiting from the CMS global distribution network, with 25 branches operating in 120 countries world wide, whilst CMS are able to integrate the Tecnocut waterjet technology into some of their larger five axis machines typically used in the automotive and aerospace sectors where larger Z-axis clearance and articulating robictic cutting head is required * Specialist company - waterjet cutting system consists of three parts: pressure intensifier, working table and a CAD-CAM programming system.
Tecnocut can boast of being the only manufacturer in Italy who designs and produces the entire system in house.
The pressure intensifier is the heart of the waterjet cutting system, Tecnocuts Jetpower system consists of parallel, synchronized and independent pressure pumps that assures: a more constant and steady pressure level.
Various units are available ranging from 60hp-120HP.
* Applications - the success of the waterjet machine is its amazing flexibility without complex change over the machines can process almost any material, typically metal and metal alloys, brass, copper aluminum as well as glass and stone based products.
Set up time is further reduced as the system requires very little in the way of clamping of the raw material