LARGE FORMAT WATERJET CUTTING SETS METAL SERVICE CENTER APART

Metal service center JACQUET Southeast (Charlotte, NC) is now offering large-format waterjet cutting services to the southeastern U.S. at its new metal processing and distribution center in Charlotte, NC. The plant is capable of processing materials up to 21 ft x 13 ft on its Jet Edge Mid Rail Gantry waterjet cutting machine. The company also offers plasma cutting services and carries 19 different grades of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates in a wide variety of sizes and thicknesses.

A subsidiary of JACQUET Mid-Atlantic (Pottstown, PA) and JACQUET Metals ( Lyon Saint Priest, France), this processing center serves the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. It is one of five metal service centers the company has in the U.S., with other centers in Pottstown, Houston, Racine, WI, and Irvine, CA.

The processing center specializes in supplying and processing stainless steel and nickel alloys for a wide variety of industries, including power generation, chemical processing, wastewater treatment, aviation and aerospace, textiles and nuclear applications. With its water jet and plasma cutting capabilities, the company can offer standard shape cutting of rings or discs as well as intricate parts from customer drawings.

While the Charlotte metal processing and distribution center is new, the company is not new to the Southeast, explained Ryan Hendrix, manager/owner of the Charlotte facility. The company has been serving the region through its Mid-Atlantic facility for several years, and opened a sales office in Charlotte in 2007. "There are not a lot of companies stocking and processing stainless plate in the Southeast, so we are uniquely geographically located," said Hendrix, who noted that the firm decided to open a metal processing facility in Charlotte to meet the region's growing demand and to provide same or next-day rush services to its southeastern customers.

"We offer a level of customer service that sets us apart," Hendrix continued. "When you couple that with our ability to respond quickly to our customers here in the Southeast from our new facility in Charlotte, I believe we have a great deal to offer our customers. We are extremely excited to now have the ability to be able to offer next-day or even same-day cutting and shipping to our customers." Hendrix explained that he decided to install the waterjet system in Charlotte based on the company's satisfaction with similar equipment at its other U.S. service centers. The system in the Charlotte plant is the company's seventh Jet Edge unit nationwide.

"You can just do so much with a waterjet that we felt like we had to have that capability," Hendrix said. "Many of our customers find that they can save a good deal of money by having us waterjet pieces as opposed to other cutting methods, as it greatly reduces the amount of machining they have to do to the part once they receive it. We can offer such a nice finish on the edges by just waterjet cutting, and customers really respond to that."

To meet its customers' needs for large-format cutting, the processing center equipped its waterjet table with two Permalign II abrasivejet cutting heads and a 100 hp intensifier pump to increase productivity. They also added an optional mirroring package, which makes it possible to cut large parts twice as fast, independent programmable Z carriages, programmable height sensing, a fully-functional remote pendant, large-capacity bulk abrasive hopper, submerged cutting package, a closed-loop water filtration system, and a garnet removal system. The Mid Rail Gantry is capable of maintaining +/- 0.001 in linear positional accuracy (over 12 in) and +/- 0.001 in repeatability (bi-directional).

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