April 2008
The pursuit of the perfectly vertical cut - a very high cutting speed with infinite consumable lifetime on a machine which requires no operator intervention and produces a part which requires no post cleaning - never ends. Messer Cutting Systems has developed new advances in plasma cutting technology, and these are now available to the local steel processing and profile cutting markets.
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