Water Injection Plasma Cutting Reduces Costs for Jacquet

This supplier of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates and parts recently purchased upgrades to four plasma cutting machines to cut rings, discs, and shapes with clean cuts and high edge quality for metal distributors and other fabricators in the chemical and petrochemical processing industries, the power generation industry and water waste treatment facilities.

As a leading provider of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates and parts, Jacquet Metals Southeast (Charlotte, NC) knows that faster, cleaner cuts is the way to keep customers coming back. That is why they recently purchased upgrades to four plasma cutting machines.

Jacquet provides stainless steel and nickel alloy plates and cut parts to metal distributors, fabricators in the chemical and petrochemical processing industries, the power generation industry (including nuclear and coal-fired power), and water waste treatment facilities. In these corrosive environments, customers need materials that are heat- and corrosion resistant, such as stainless steel and nickel alloy.

“We cut a lot of rings, discs, and shapes,” says Ryan Hendrix, the Jacquet Southeast Facility manager. “We use the Sabre DX with an m3 plasma system featuring water injection capability from ESAB Cutting Systems (Florence, SC) because we need clean cuts with high edge quality.”

Jacquet installed five new ESAB cutting machines from 2006 through 2008, and installed a sixth machine at its new location in Charlotte in 2010. The Charlotte location was the first to use the water injection plasma system. “We were so pleased with water injection – it absolutely gives the best results,” says Terry Engle, the CEO of Jacquet Metals USA (Pottstown, PA). “We jumped on it pretty fast and ordered four for all of our North American facilities. We didn’t order one at a time – we immediately retrofitted our cutting heads.”