Laser cutting technology is a very useful development that has occurred over the past half-century. Also, laser cut steel is an important application of laser cutting technology. Because various steel materials are widely used in life.

A high-density laser beam irradiates onto the steel surface to melt the material at the beam spot. This helps operators to cut custom parts and shapes out from a variety of steel materials with the highest precision. The laser cut steel metal parts helps improve the smoothness and reliability of many modern machines and equipment.

Laser cut steel materials

Steel refers to an iron-carbon alloy with a carbon content of less than 2%. According to different components, the steel falls into the carbon steel and other alloy steel. In terms of properties and uses, it includes structural steel, tool steel and special performance steel. Anyway, the metal laser cutting machine can cut most types of steel materials. The most common laser cut steel materials are stainless steel and carbon steel.

Steel materials that can be cut by a fiber laser cutter mainly include:

Carbon steel: steel with a particularly high carbon content

Low-carbon steel: carbon content is lower than the carbon steel

Stainless steel: adding a small amount of chromium in the steel to create corrosion resistance

Other steel alloy: adding one or more types of other elements in the steel to increase its strength

Laser cut steel thickness

In practical CNC metal cutting, the metal laser cutting thickness is related to various factors. For example, the type and power of the laser, cutting environment, cutting speed, and the quality of the metal laser cutter. Using a suitable auxiliary gas can also improve a certain laser cutting ability. So there is no absolute value for the laser cut steel thickness.

For example, laser cutting carbon steel mainly relies on oxygen combustion. While laser cut stainless steel mainly depends on laser power. Generally, a 1000W fiber laser cutting machine can cut carbon steel plates with a thickness of about 10mm. But it’s hard to cut stainless steel plates with the same thickness. Increasing the cutting thickness may be at the expense of the cutting edge quality and the cutting speed.

Laser cut steel machines

We recommend using a fiber laser cutting machine to cut steel sheets and tubes for mass production. It is ok to cut stainless steel and carbon steel sheets with a CO2 laser cutting machine. But the cutting thickness is small and the energy consumption is high.

Shapes of the steel materials mainly include steel sheets, pipes, and irregular-shaped steel bars. Therefore, our fiber laser cut steel machines can be simply divided into three major types for cutting sheets, pipes, and both sheets and pipes respectively.

Steel laser pipe cutting machine

The laser pipe cutting machine has a long and narrow shape, occupying a small space. It is mainly used for cutting various steel pipes and steel bars. All round, square, and rectangular steel pipes and tubes can be cut by the pipe metal laser cutter. Meanwhile, the steel laser pipe cutting machine can also cut V-, H-, L-, and U-shaped steel bars. These bars can be used for rails, metal doors and windows, construction, infrastructure, and other purposes.

 Released by Jinan APEX Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd.