Waterjet cutting

Water jet cutting on all types of materials, such as very hard countertops or the neat cutting of ceramic tiles. We carry out your precision cutting thanks to our high-tech cutting machines, equipped with 5 axes of useful cutting dimension: 4 x 2 meters.

Industrial machining process

Water jet cutting is an industrial machining process, which uses the projection of water under very high pressure (4000 bars), loaded or not in abrasive depending on the materials to be machined (metal, sheet, aluminum). It offers the possibility to cut practically all materials supporting water, regardless of their thickness, except tempered glass.

Cutting of all hard materials | Marbrerie Toulouse

Barthe specializes in water jet cutting of hard and soft materials, metals, sheet metal, stone or even glass. We work in particular for industrial and craft subcontracting, but also for artistic, technological and industrial projects requiring extreme precision in cutting work.

Benefits

Cutting with an aqueous liquid jet is a cold cutting process that therefore does not alter the molecular structure of the cut material. This cutting technology ensures the mechanical properties of each material, without heat treatment and without deformation.

It offers very high cutting precision: cutting tolerance up to 0.2 mm, surface quality of the fields up to Ra 1.6 μ.

The extreme precision, thanks to its orientable head, compensates for a minimum draft.

The different aqueous jet cutting processes

Abrasive water cutting is used for hard materials such as steel, titanium, stainless steel, aluminum, Dekton, ceramics, granite, stone, glass, metal, sheet...

Pure water cutting is used on thin soft materials such as composite, rubber, foam, plastic, leather...

Examples of materials cut by water jet (with or without the addition of abrasives)

• Hard materials: Steel – Stainless Steel – Titanium – Inconel – Stainless Steel etc.
• Non-ferrous materials: Aluminum – Brass – Bronze – Copper – Nickel alloy etc.
• Plastics and Polymers: Teflon – POM – PE – PEEK – Bakelite – Polyamide – Polyacetal - Polycarbonate etc.
• Minerals: Dekton - Ceramic Plates – Ceramic Tiles - Granite – Marble – Stone – Resin - Glass - Mirror – Magna – etc.
• Plants: Wood – Medium - Cross Wood – Root – Exotic Wood – etc
• New materials: Carbonne – Composite – Composite Materials – Fiberglass – Carbonne Fiber – Multi-material – Sandwich and complex materials - etc.
• Soft materials: Rubber – Foam – Silicone – Elastomers- Leather – Carpet etc.

Technical details of cutting tools for all materials 

• Usable dimension of the cutting table: 4 x 2 meters
• 5-axis cutting machine with tilting head from 0° up to 55°
• Max thickness: 200 mm
• Variable pressure up to 4000 bar
• Pure water jet size: 0.25 mm
• Size of the water jet + abrasive: 0.76 to 1.02 mm

Machines for ultra-precise and high precision cutting

Our latest generation 5-axis machine complements our two digital 5-axis and 4-axis machines in the precision and finishing work that only water jet cutting can provide. They will work in pairs on orders requiring machining work such as polishing, grooving, unhooking and a finer and more precise cut that only the water jet can perform.

Barthe also offers you the purchase or rental of ready-to-install gabions.

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