Applications of water jet cutting
The water jet cutting production process is employed worldwide in many industry sectors and applications, a small selection of which is listed below.
Industry Sectors:
- Aircraft and spacecraft—including composite products
- Architectural
- Arms and defence
- Automobile and automobile supplies—including carbon fibre products
- Construction
- Electronics industry
- Glass industry
- Marine and shipbuilding
- Medical Engineering
- Packaging and paper industry
- Sign makers
Applications
- Interior decoration, including inlay patterns cut into tiles, such as logos
and lettering
- Machine and apparatus engineering
- Precision Engineering
- Public art and sculpture
Waterjet cutting often compliments other technologies such as milling, laser cutting, plasma cutting, electrical discharge machining (EDM) and routing. Laser cutting and precision engineering companies often use water jet cutting services as a compliment to their services