Floor designs with water jet cutting

Water jet cutting facilities are widely used in many industries and applications.

Example Industries are as follow:

Sign making

Schools and playground equipment

Packaging manufacture

Die making

Auto-mobile manufacture

Gasket work

Electronics industry

Example Water Jet Cut Components:

Plastic signs

Playground floor designs (more about it below)

Open and closed cell ejection rubber shapes for dies

Gaskets

Machine parts

Although the water jet cutting machine is relatively new to Partwell, purchased last year, Partwell have over 30 years’ experience in CNC machining bespoke components for all industries. It was a natural growth to invest in a water jet cutting machine to enable a quick approach to cutting two dimensional products from plastics but also other materials such as metals, synthetics, foams, rubber and ceramics etc. Historically machining intricately detailed three dimensional components on the state of the art 5-axis router machine. Investment in a water jet machine was a natural progression; it allows Partwell to extend the engineering facility to incorporate a more value for money cutting service of two dimensional components.

Here's one of the last Partwell water jet cutting cases for playgrounds.

A client approached Partwell with a requirement for converting a specialist material into shapes and numbers for a playground application.

The client felt quite strongly about using the specialist material as it was perfect for the playground environment – colourful, decorative, flexible, non-toxic, UV resistant, environmentally friendly and easy to clean and durable. Therefore they needed a suitable cutting solution to convert the sheet material into a range of numbers and shapes.

The material is very thin and quite fragile therefore lends itself perfectly to water jet cutting. It is the high water pressure of the machines that make the cutting of thin and soft materials fast with exceptionally clean edges.

Low Cost Cutting Services.

The client was surprised at the low cost cutting service, this was enabled by the customer supplying their own material, exceptionally fast programing of the machine and the two machine heads that cut simultaneously for low production time and therefore low production cost.

Design and Drawing Assistance.

The engineering sales office offers a wealth of experience in cutting of bespoke parts and components, this combined with various machine capabilities means we can help the client’s designs come true in the playground very easily. In addition to the water jet machine, the Lancashire based engineering factory also operates a state of the art 5axis CNC router, lathe, fabricating, press machines.

Content writer for Brick technology Ltd, Blackburn, Lancashire.