Structural Shapes
Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. offers a wide range of fabrication services, including processing tubes, structural steel, and pipes. Gulf States Saw & Machinery Co., Inc. tube-lasers offer superior laser cutting technology, and many incorporate additional processing functions to provide fabricators with added value.
Our system solutions allow for flexible production of small or large series with diameters from 10 to 324 millimeters, and pipe and profile lengths as high as 12.5 meters.
Discover how Cambus Medical uses the Coherent StarCut Tube laser-powered tube cutting machine and Select Laser Welders to create business success.
There is a cutting technology that suits every need. Users have two options: CO2 laser cuttingsystems or fiber laser cutting systems, depending on the material to be cut and the level of productivity desired.
Parts are held by automatic tabbing (do in FabCreator) and a set jaws on both the idler and drive chuck.
You can find laser systems that are high-precision and fast for cutting, welding and marking metals and plastics.
Micrometric Ltd's versatile Coherent StarCut tube laser cutting machine delivers speed and precision to medical and aerospace products.
Reduce the amount of components and save time. You can make tubular frames or metal structures that are easier to assemble and more precise. Your part can be completed in just one programming step and in one machining step.
Motion Dynamics is a leading manufacturer of neurological sub-assemblies, including steerable catheters and “pull-wire” assemblies, making use of our StarCut Tube machines for precision cutting of key components.
StarCut Tube's tube-cutting laser machine StarCut Tube provides the highest precision and contour cutting accuracy, at a range of +/-5um.
TruLaser tube 3000 fiber is a valuable laser tube cutting machine. It's perfect for novice users, or as a supplementary machine.
The very nature of a tube prevents the need for a machine with a very high-powered laser. Whereas flat sheet laser cutting machines now are available with laser generators as powerful as 12 kW, tube laser cutting machines usually only require a maximum of 5 kW of power. With a tube, you always have to think about the opposite side of the tube you are cutting. A more powerful laser simply would blow through the other side of the tube during cutting. (Of course, if you are processing a beam or a channel on the tube laser you don’t have to worry about another side.)
Some things are obvious. A fiber laser has a smaller laser "generator" than a CO2-resonator. Actually, the fiber laser is made by banks of diodes which are combined in a small module. These modules can have a power range from 600 to 1,500 W. To create the final powered resonance, multiple modules are spliced together. This is usually the same size as a small filing cupboard. The fiber-optic cables channel the light and amplify it. Fiber-optic cables transmit the same light as when they were generated, with no loss of power and quality. The fiber-optic cable is then adjusted and focused to cut the appropriate material.
Imagine that you need to put a through-hole at the center of a tube. It must be centered to the actual dimensions, not just one. This will make things more complicated. This is how tube manufacturing works.