What Is Waterjet Cutting?
Waterjet cutting is one of today’s most advanced and versatile machining technologies. Its greatest advantage is the ability to produce highly precise cuts without generating heat, allowing the material to retain its original structure and mechanical properties. This is why more and more industries rely on waterjet cutting whenever dimensional accuracy, superior edge quality, and material integrity are essential.
How Does Waterjet Cutting Work?
Waterjet cutting uses an extremely high-pressure water jet operating at 4,000–6,000 bar. The water exits the cutting head at extremely high speed and is capable of cutting softer materials using water alone.
For harder materials such as steel, stainless steel, aluminium, titanium, granite, glass, and ceramics, a fine abrasive material (garnet abrasive) is added to the water jet. These extremely hard abrasive particles, combined with the high-velocity water stream, enable exceptionally precise and clean cuts, even in the toughest materials.
Did You Know?
The pressure generated by a waterjet pump is approximately 4,000 times greater than the pressure inside an average car tyre.
Why Is Waterjet Cutting Becoming Increasingly Popular?
Conventional thermal cutting technologies—such as laser, plasma, or flame cutting—separate material using heat. While these processes are highly effective in many applications, the heat can alter the material’s structure, cause distortion, or create internal stresses.
Waterjet cutting, by contrast, is a completely cold cutting process. No heat-affected zone (HAZ) is created, meaning the material’s mechanical properties remain unchanged. There is no surface hardening, structural damage, or thermal distortion. This makes waterjet cutting particularly suitable for precision components where even the slightest dimensional change or material alteration could affect the performance of the finished product.
Cold Cutting
No heat-affected zone, so the material structure remains unchanged.
Precise Geometries
CNC-controlled cutting, even for the most complex shapes.
Precision Without Compromise
The entire waterjet cutting process is CNC-controlled, enabling the accurate production of both simple components and highly complex geometries. The narrow kerf minimises material waste, while the clean cutting edge often eliminates the need for additional finishing operations.
Using our technology, we can process materials up to 150 mm thick. Waterjet cutting is an excellent solution for steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass, titanium, plastics, rubber, glass, ceramics, natural stone, and a wide range of composite materials.
One Technology – Countless Applications
Today, waterjet cutting is used across virtually every industry where precision and consistent quality are essential. Components manufactured using this technology can be found in mechanical engineering, food processing equipment, construction, interior design, decorative applications, prototype manufacturing, and series production.
Thanks to its versatility, waterjet cutting is often the preferred solution for projects where other cutting technologies cannot achieve the required quality or cost-effectiveness.
Why Choose Vízvágás Kft.?
Advanced technology alone is not enough to guarantee outstanding results. Experience, modern equipment, and a reliable partnership approach are equally important.
For more than 16 years, Vízvágás Kft. has specialised in precision waterjet cutting. With our modern machinery, high-precision CNC technology, and experienced team, we support our partners from one-off components and prototypes to full-scale production runs.
We believe that successful cooperation is built not only on precision manufacturing, but also on fast communication, reliability, and long-term partnerships.
“If you are unsure whether waterjet cutting is the right solution for your project, feel free to contact us. We will be happy to review your requirements and help you find the most suitable manufacturing solution.”
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