Steel pipes are used in all walks of life. Metal pipes are widely used in different industries. General pipes are usually 10 meters or even 20 meters long before they are formed. After being distributed to various industries, they need to be processed into parts of different shapes and sizes to meet the needs of different industries due to different application scenarios. The three main processes of metal pipes are: cutting, bending and welding.
my country’s steel pipe output in 2019 was 84.176 million tons, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year, accounting for more than 50% of the world’s total output. my country is also the world’s largest steel pipe consumer. Steel pipes generally include surface-treated ordinary steel pipes and stainless steel pipes. In practical applications, the demand for pipe cutting is very large.
Steel pipes are widely used in water supply and drainage and liquid gas transportation projects. Nowadays, most cold water supply systems use plastic pipes. In electric power, engineering construction steel frame structure, home construction, door and window guardrails, automobiles/bicycles/motorcycles, agricultural machinery, sports facilities, etc., almost most industrial sectors use steel pipes in large quantities. In recent years, the application of stainless steel pipes in sanitary ware and furniture has attracted particular attention.
In the past, traditional stainless steel pipe cutting mostly used saw blade cutting, from manual to semi-automatic, and then to fully automatic. The saw blade cutting technology has reached the ceiling, and the pipe cutting efficiency cannot be improved. At this time, laser pointer pipe cutting technology began to enter the pipe industry, which is very suitable for cutting various metal pipes. It has the characteristics of high automation, high efficiency and high output. For pipes of different materials, there is no need to replace the corresponding saw blades, anyway. It is “one size fits all”, no need to stop in the middle, very suitable for mass production.
The emergence of laser tube cutting soon brought subversive changes to the original metal tube industry cutting process. Laser cutting has quickly replaced many traditional and low-efficiency mechanical cutting. Nowadays, laser pipe cutting machines continue to add new functions, such as automatic feeding, clamping, rotation, bevel cutting, suitable for round pipes, square pipes, flat pipes, etc. Laser cutting meets almost all requirements for pipe cutting.