Waterjet Cutting Aluminum

Definitive Solutions & Technologies (DS&T) waterjet cuts Aluminum with no heat involved, leaving a clean, sand-blasted finish. Unlike other cutting methods such as lasers, waterjet cutting aluminum preserves the material’s properties at the cut edge and delivers a high-quality finish.

An additional benefit of using a waterjet is that aluminum parts can be nested tightly beside each other, resulting in significant material savings. We’ve cut aluminum as thin as .005” shim stock, all the way up to pieces that were 9 1/2″ thick. Lasers can only cut/melt approximately 3/8”, which greatly limits the types of projects they can handle.