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The customer is a decoration and customized furniture company, which uses a water jet cutting machine to make the decorative background walls of hotels.

The customer cuts quartz blocks for light guiding and transmission in photovoltaic products, with a precision requirement of 0.05mm. APW provides the customer with 4 units of basic water jet combo.

For a certain aircraft manufacturing factory that needs to cut a titanium plate with a length of 4.5 meters and a width of 2 meters, APW provides it with a 6025 super-large cutting water jet machine.

The customer cuts ceramic tiles and mass-produces under-counter wash basins. APW provides them with a 3020 basic water jet combo upgraded to an AC 5-axis model.

The customer conducts cold cutting on a sandwich material, with the outer layer being PVC plastic and the inner layer being an aluminum corrugated plate, and uses an APW 3020 basic water jet combo for the cutting task.

APW recently partnered with a major American textile manufacturer seeking an innovative solution for cutting industrial felt. Understanding the client’s need for precision and material integrity, APW provided a state – of – the – art water jet cutter system that uses pure water as the cutting medium.

The customer cuts EVA foam boards with a thickness of 10-30mm, which are used as the buffer and fixing layer in product packaging. APW provides a 5-axis pure water cutting machine for the customer.

The scope of water jet application cases is far from being limited to just cutting. Relying on its leading water jet technology, APW has successfully expanded its application fields to several crucial areas such as fragmentation, tunneling, and emergency rescue.

In the field of fragmentation, when dealing with hard rocks and concrete structures in mining operations and demolition projects, APW’s water jet technology can efficiently break large objects into appropriate sizes through the continuous impact of high-pressure water flow. Compared with traditional fragmentation methods, it reduces dust pollution and noise interference, making it more environmentally friendly, safer, and easier to control.

In terms of tunneling, whether it is tunnel excavation or underground engineering construction, the water jet technology can accurately break through rocks and soil layers, avoiding the potential collapse risks caused by traditional tunneling methods like blasting, and improving the stability and efficiency of tunneling operations.

In the huge and complex project of Shenyang Metro construction, the geological conditions are complex and changeable. Especially during the underground tunneling in the alluvial plain, it often encounters the obstacle of hard rocks, and traditional construction methods are often inefficient and pose high risks. However, APW’s water jet technology has provided an innovative and efficient solution to this difficult problem.

APW ingeniously integrated the advanced water jet application technology onto the shield machine, forming a unique tunneling system. When the shield machine encounters a rock layer during underground tunneling, the water jet technology breaks the rocks through ultra-high-pressure water flow with a powerful impact force. This technology has broken through the limitations of traditional mechanical rock breaking. Not only has it significantly improved the tunneling efficiency, increasing the tunneling speed by nearly 30% compared with the previous situation when encountering similar conditions, but it has also reduced the vibration and noise generated during rock breaking in the construction process, minimizing the impact on the surrounding environment and buildings.

At the same time, the precise control characteristics of the water jet technology avoid the waste of resources caused by excessive rock breaking and the subsequent cleaning burden, ensuring the continuity and safety of the construction. It provides solid technical support for the smooth construction of the Shenyang Metro and also offers extremely valuable reference experience for metro construction projects under similar geological conditions.

In emergency rescue scenarios, when people are trapped due to disasters such as earthquakes and landslides, APW’s water jet equipment can quickly and accurately break through obstacles and open up rescue passages. Its characteristics of non-thermal cutting and no vibration avoid causing secondary injuries to the trapped people, and every second counts in the rescue work. APW continuously explores the boundaries of water jet technology and brings more efficient and safer solutions to various industries through innovative applications.

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