Cutting Systems
With over a decade of innovation, Plazmax designs and builds industry-leading CNC plasma cutting systems tailored to the needs of engineering and manufacturing companies across Australia. Our cutting-edge machines deliver unmatched precision, performance, and durability—powered by the best technology and software available.
Plazmax CutAce
The Plazmax CutAce is the ultimate unitised plasma cutting system for manufacturers and engineers seeking efficiency and accuracy. Designed for exceptional cut quality on carbon steel, aluminium, and stainless steel, CutAce features Hypertherm’s outstanding power sources and offers customised tables sizes to fit your specific needs.
Engineered for speed, precision, and maximum productivity, the CutAce offers easy cleaning and maintenance, integrated remote support, and full compatibility with scribing and oxy-torch. Delivering best-in-class performance, it gives you a distinct competitive edge in modern fabrication.
Plazmax CutPro
When only the toughest will do, Plazmax CutPro rises to the challenge. Designed for ultra-heavy-duty performance, CutPro delivers precision in high-definition plasma cutting, bevel cutting, multi-torch configurations, and oxy-fuel systems—effortlessly handling the most demanding applications.
Available in two configurations, the CutPro Rail is a floor-mounted X-axis rail and gantry system, suitable for retrofitting over an existing or new table. Meanwhile, the CutPro HS features a modular pod design, offering virtually unlimited length for maximum flexibility.
Built to your exact specifications, the CutPro ensures superior productivity, precision, and reliability—tailored to meet the unique demands of your operation.
CNC Laser Cutting Machine: Brilliant, but is it the Best?
Everything in life moves on, as long as someone is working on improving it, and there are experts in every field dedicated to just that. Cutting metal is no exception, and it has come a long way since the days of brute strength and metal vs. metal. Along the way, several advances have challenged conventional thinking, with the result that this is now an area where 21st-century technology is well and truly shaking things up.
In the late 1950s, there was a race going on around the world to harness the attributes of light in a new way, concentrating it to create a power that could cut materials without them being touched by another material. To the public, this was mind-boggling stuff: if you didn’t have something as hard as a diamond exerting its physical superiority, or an incredibly tough, sharp metal blade doing its crude, unsubtle stuff, how was it possible to make something as simple as light do the trick?
But back in the laboratories and research institutes, things were happening that defied what we knew already. That’s the nature of scientific research: looking at questions from a different perspective and adopting approaches that perhaps seem destined to fail. The world was about to hear the word laser for the first time, and it was a suitably futuristic term to describe something revolutionary. A CNC laser cutting machine still sounds like something out of science fiction, but lasers are everywhere now, from DVD players to eye surgery, and they can do a great job of cutting materials. Read More
How The Laser Beat Oxy-Acetylene
When the laser was invented, it wasn’t the first time cutting had been done without a solid material overwhelming a softer one. Fifty years earlier, some French engineers had pioneered the use of acetylene gas ignited with oxygen to produce the oxy-acetylene welder and cutter, the high temperature being capable of melting steel, so it could either be cut and separated or melted and pushed together so that two parts fused as they cooled, a process they called welding. Lasers made this method seem primitive.
New Kid on the Block
The laser was king for several decades, but nothing lasts forever. Sooner or later, there will be someone who runs faster than Usain Bolt; there will be a better boxer than Muhammad Ali. In the world of cutting, it has already happened. As great as CNC laser cutters are, we now have the previously undiscovered phenomenon of plasma – superheated gas. Just as with lasers, the science is impenetrable to almost everyone, so it is pointless to describe in detail how it works. Let’s just say that electricity is involved, and it produces a reaction in the gas that results in extremely high temperatures in which the gas turns into plasma. This is the fourth state, following solid, liquid and gas.
What Can You Cut with a CNC Laser Machine?
A CNC laser cutter is versatile in that it can cut a wide variety of materials. It can even cut some that plasma machines can’t, because plasma depends on the material being a good conductor of electricity. That rules out wood, plastic, cork, paper and fabrics.
If the majority of your work is cutting metal, a CNC laser cutter will do the job up to a point, but it won’t handle the thickness that plasma can. Whether you’re dealing with mild steel, stainless steel, carbon steel, copper, brass, aluminium, cast iron, or even titanium, plasma can handle more than a laser. That’s just how it goes, and if you have been using your CNC laser cutting machine for years and it’s been fine, but you’re thinking of raising your game to stay ahead of the competition or to provide a better service to your customers, upgrading means going plasma.
Contact Us to Discuss Plasma vs Laser
We at Plazmax have been largely responsible for the dramatic improvement in CNC plasma cutters and their success in Australia, and we have a broad, in-depth knowledge of the industry. This enables us to give advice to anyone in the cutting business, while we also have the advantage of having stocks of fabulously powerful CNC plasma cutters, which we believe to be the way to go for the future.
Perhaps you would like to browse our website and see what we have available before talking to us about what you need. When you reach the stage where you’re ready to get down to brass tacks, you can call us or fill in the online enquiry form, and we will get back to you. Either way, we will be more than happy to discuss the pros and cons of CNC laser cutting machines and why we think you’d be better off with a CNC plasma cutter.
Committed to staying ahead of the curve, we invest heavily in research and development, ensuring our systems continue to set the benchmark for productivity and efficiency. When you choose Plazmax, you’re investing in superior quality, cutting accuracy, and a competitive edge.
Setting you up for success, Plazmax provides complete turn-key installation, on-site and remote training, and comprehensive support, including 24/7 breakdown service and remote diagnostics.