Jacquet West Service Center Adds Waterjet
The new large-format Mid Rail Gantry waterjet cutting system from Jet Edge enables the metal service center to process full 8 ft x 20 ft or 10 ft x 20 ft plates.
Posted: April 8, 2015
Jet Edge Inc. (St. Michael, MN) is pleased to announce that Jacquet West (Carson, CA) is installing a second Jet Edge waterjet cutting system at its metal processing facility in Carson. The Mid Rail Gantry system is the shop’s twelfth Jet Edge waterjet nationwide. This new large-format waterjet system features a 12 ft x 21 ft table that enables the metal service center to process full 8 ft x 20 ft or 10 ft x 20 ft plates. Powered by a 60,000 psi 100 hp iP60-100 intensifier pump, the ball-screw driven waterjet system has the best repeatability in the industry at ±.001 in, and features dual independent cutting heads to double production.
The new system also has submerged or above-water cutting capabilities as well as height sensing capabilities to react to inconsistent plate height, providing maximum standoff accuracy from nozzle-to-plate.
A subsidiary of Jacquet Mid Atlantic (which, in turn, is a subsidiary of Jacquet Metals of Lyon Saint Priest, France), Jacquet West is one of five Jacquet metal service centers in the United States. The company also has service centers in Charlotte, Houston, Pottstown, PA, and Racine, WI, and recently acquired the Rolark Group service centers in Canada, with subsidiaries in Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal.
Jacquet specializes in supplying and processing stainless steel and nickel alloys for OEMs, fabricators and machine shops that support primarily the oil and gas, power generation, pollution control systems and water purification industries. The company’s North American service centers provide waterjet and plasma part cutting and stock 19 different grades of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates in a wide variety of sizes and thicknesses.
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