Water Jet

Water jetting is a high technology used to precisely cut material using high speed and pressurized water. The biggest advantage of water jet cutting is that there is no deformation and strength loss in the material since no heat is generated during cutting. Compressed water with an ultra high pressure of 4000 bar, generated by a hydraulic pump, is delivered to a pneumatically controlled cutting head through special alloy steel pipes that are also resistant to very high pressure. There are diamond or ruby orifices ranging from 0.15 mm to 0.35 mm in diameter in this cutting head. High pressure compressed water is forced through this diamond orifice to increase the speed of sound to about three times and a water beam called a water jet is obtained. This water jet and abrasive mixture, which comes out of the nozzle tip at three times the speed of sound, can cut natural stones such as marble, granite, travertine, dolomite, limestone and onyx.