Laser cutting of sheet metal is an advanced technology for processing cutting various types of materials, widely used around the world. Speed, flexibility, accuracy, high quality, and low cost are the main advantages of this technology. Thermal heating of the required area of the sheet metal to create a melting zone and partial vaporization is achieved by exposing it to a narrowly focused laser beam with high power and coherence.

Further removal of molten metal from the cutting zone is carried out under the influence of process gas supplied to the cutting zone under high pressure. The metal is also partially vaporized from the cutting zone. As a result, laser cutting of sheet metal is geometrically precise and of consistent quality. There are virtually no cones, scale, cracks, or burrs.