Tube, Tape & Material Cutting Machines

Choose by the material and the required finished edge. A cold blade separates tube, hose or tape without deliberately melting it; check squareness, deformation and fraying on your sample. A hot knife can cut and seal compatible synthetic braid or webbing, but coatings and blends can change the edge. Ultrasonic cutting can seal suitable thermoplastic fibers and support shaped cuts, V-cuts, holes or print registration in the relevant machine configuration. It creates local heat and does not inherently provide a tighter tolerance or a better edge than a hot knife. Cotton and other pure natural fibers do not fuse by these methods. Agree the acceptable edge and measure trial pieces before selection.

A rotary chipless cutter parts the tube by displacing material, not removing it — avoiding saw chips inside the tube; check the cut edge for burrs and deformation on your sample. The WM-593 does this on Ø10–100 mm pipe with 0.5–6 mm walls. When the tube is armored or the section is small, a toothless-saw machine like the WM-183 (Ø1–30 mm) is the alternative; for programmed cutting of 6 m brass or aluminum bar, the WM-562CNC.

Yes — that is the standard build in this category. A splitting knife rides inside the tube while the cut-off works outside, so every piece leaves cut to length and slit lengthwise, ready for wire to be laid in. The WM-176 (Ø4–32), WM-583 (Ø5–60), WM-584 (≤Ø38) and high-speed WM-587 (≤Ø35, 0.003 × L) all cut and split in one pass.

The WM-565N cuts shrink tube up to Ø38 mm at ±0.1 mm; the WM-585 covers Ø1–30 mm with pneumatic cut-off. Cutting is only half the job — inserting the pieces onto wire and shrinking them is its own machine family, in the heat shrink processing category, including lines that cut, insert and shrink in one pass.

The material (and whether it is synthetic — that decides hot versus cold cutting), diameter or lay-flat width, cut length and tolerance, whether corrugated tube needs splitting, and target pieces per hour. Then courier 2–3 meters of the actual material: edge quality is a material property as much as a machine property, so we cut yours on video before you order.