1983

Oxygen-injected plasma cutting transforms industry

Hypertherm blazes the path for production cutting of up to 1" carbon steel, devising a way to use oxygen as the cutting gas while introducing water at the tip of the nozzle. Featured in the HT400 system, this major innovation addressed the decades-old problems of rapidly deteriorating electrodes and oxidizing metal, and establishes Hypertherm as the world's premier high-current mechanized plasma cutting supplier.

1983