Micro Waterjet LLC

13420 Reese Blvd., West
Huntersville, NC 28078

Tel: 704-948-1223
Fax: 704-875-0781

 

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Company Profile

Micro Waterjet, LLC was formed through a joint venture between Waterjet AG and Max Daetwyler Corporation to bring micro manufacturing services for advanced abrasive waterjet technologies to North America. We serve a broad range of markets including aerospace, automotive, electrical/electronic, job and machine shops, art and jewelry, medical, motorsports, watch components, and many other advanced manufacturing, specialty applications.
 
Waterjet AG, after 15 years in business, developed the Abrasive WaterJet Micro Machining® (AWJMM®) technology for its waterjet cutting machine, the first of its kind in the world. As a seasoned contract manufacturer, Walter Maurer, Director of Waterjet AG in Aarwangen, Switzerland, decided to co-develop a high-precision micro waterjet cutting technology to meet and exceed his customer’s expectations. His source of inspiration was a collection of unfulfilled customer inquiries he had collected over several years. Working with a regional technical institute in Switzerland, all of the important components such as pressurization, valve, piping, cutting head and abrasive system were analyzed during a two-year research project.  Today, the result is an abrasive water jet that is bridging the gap between existing cutting technologies including EDM and Laser.

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The MicroWaterJetTM was specifically designed to machine two-dimensional, high-precision and micro parts with a substantially smaller kerf width (0.08mm for pure water cutting; 0.3mm for abrasive waterjet cutting) compared to traditional abrasive waterjet machines (0.8 mm) primarily used to cut or rough out large shapes and/or thicker materials. More competitive with EDM and Laser Cutting, Micro Waterjet can cut without Heat Affected Zones (HAZ).

We use proprietary equipment developed with new Abrasive Waterjet Micro Machining (AWJMM®) technology to cut a wide range of materials, including heat sensitive ones, with a cutting accuracy of +/-0.01mm and a positioning accuracy of +/-0.003mm. Due to the small diameter of the jet it is possible to create sharp edged contours. And, with a kerf size of 0.3mm, a very high material efficiency is achieved.