Thermal cutting primarily means the use of energy in various forms to cut virtually any shape from iron and nonferrous materials out of sheets or large slabs. These are the grades of the material which are usually referred as “Flats” in the metal processing industries.
Thermal cutting is one of the most important production processes in the metal producing and metalworking industries (e.g. in Structural engineering, machine fabrication, Energy equipment manufacturing shipbuilding and plant manufacturing etc.).
Thermal cutting primarily means the use of energy in various forms to cut virtually any shape from iron and nonferrous materials out of sheets or large slabs. These are the grades of the material which are usually referred as “Flats” in the metal processing industries. The other type of metals is available in angle, channel, beams, pipes, rods etc. which are called as “Longs”. The series of article would cover primarily the cutting of the Flats & at a later date Longs.