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Spiral Cutting vs Rotary Cut-Off for Silicone Tube
A 5 mm silicone-tube inquiry shows why a rotating blade does not prove spiral-cut capability. Define the helix, support and sample acceptance.
Read engineering guide →Tube, Tape & Material Cutting Machines
Cut-to-length machines for tubes, sleeves, webbing, sheet materials and selected wire or wire-rope applications: corrugated loom cut and slit in one pass, heat shrink tube to ±0.1 mm, braided sleeve and webbing hot-cut with sealed ends at up to 7,200 pieces per hour, ultrasonic shape cutting and hole punching, and metal tube parted chipless up to Ø100 mm. Options span six cutting technologies — cold blade, hot knife, ultrasonic, rotary chipless, toothless saw and laser. The material decides the technology; this page shows how. Send 2–3 meters of your tube or webbing and we cut it on video before you order.
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Six technologies, one question: what must the cut edge be?
The material decides the blade. Cold blade gives a clean square cut on tube and pipe — the default for corrugated loom, PVC and silicone. Hot knife is for synthetics that fray: it melts through braided sleeve and webbing and seals both faces in the same stroke — the WM-568 does 1–100 mm widths at 7,200 cuts/hour, the WM-576 takes 200 mm widths on a floor cabinet at 6,600/hour, the WM-572A reaches 220 mm, and the WM-579 adds a stacker so pieces leave counted and piled. Ultrasonic seals like a hot knife but cold-to-the-touch and precise enough for shaped work: the WM-574 cuts custom shapes in rope and webbing, the WM-581 makes V-cuts, the WM-598 punches holes in zipper tape and hook-and-loop, and the WM-580 positions cuts to printed marks on satin ribbon. Rotary chipless parts metal and rigid pipe by displacement — no chips, no burr: the WM-593 covers Ø10–100 mm with 0.5–6 mm walls. Toothless saw handles armored and copper/aluminum/stainless tube of Ø1–30 mm on the WM-183, with the WM-562CNC feeding 6 m brass and aluminum bar through a 3 kW CNC head at Ø0.6–48 mm. And laser: the WM-575 punches and cuts webbing with two 10.6 µm heads, no blade to wear.
Corrugated loom: cut and split in one pass
Wire loom usually needs a lengthwise slit as well as a cut, so the wire can be laid in later. The splitting knife rides inside the tube while the cutter works outside — one pass, both operations. By size and speed: the WM-176 covers Ø4–32 mm, the WM-583 extends to Ø60 mm with powered feeding at 10–60 pcs/min, the WM-584 takes mixed soft tubes to Ø38 mm, and the WM-587 is the high-speed build holding tolerance to 0.003 × L through Ø35 mm. The WM-162 bundles a 30 kg pay-off into the cabinet for reel-fed work. For heat shrink tubing specifically, the WM-565N cuts to ±0.1 mm up to Ø38 mm and the WM-585 covers Ø1–30 mm — and once the pieces are cut, the heat shrink processing category has the machines that put them on the wire and shrink them.
| Machine | Technology | Capacity | Speed / tolerance | Pick it for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WM-587 | Cold blade, cut + slit | Corrugated ≤Ø35 mm | 0.003 × L tolerance | The high-speed loom line |
| WM-583 | Cold blade, cut + slit | Ø5–60 mm | 10–60 pcs/min | The biggest corrugated diameters |
| WM-176 | Cold blade, cut + slit | Ø4–32 mm | — | The standard loom machine |
| WM-162 | Cold blade + built-in pay-off | Ø3–32 mm | 1.5 kW | Reel-fed loom, one cabinet |
| WM-582 | Cold blade | Hose & conduit Ø1–40 mm | ±0.5 mm | Mixed soft tube on one machine |
| WM-565N | Cold blade | Heat shrink ≤Ø38 mm | ±0.1 mm | Precision shrink tube pieces |
| WM-585 | Pneumatic blade | Heat shrink Ø1–30 mm | — | Shrink tube with 90 mm lay-flat |
| WM-576 | Hot knife, floor | Sleeve & webbing ≤200 mm | 6,600 cuts/h | Wide sleeve with sealed ends |
| WM-572A | Hot knife | ≤220 mm | 121 pcs/min | The widest hot cut here |
| WM-568 | Hot knife | 1–100 mm | 7,200 cuts/h | Braided sleeve at volume |
| WM-579 | Hot/cold + stacker | 1–98 mm | — | Pieces counted and stacked |
| WM-574 | Ultrasonic, shaped | Rope & webbing | — | Custom shapes with sealed edges |
| WM-598 | Ultrasonic punching | Webbing, zipper tape | 2,000 W | Holes without melt burrs |
| WM-581 | Ultrasonic V-cut | Webbing | 2,600 W | V-shaped sealed ends |
| WM-593 | Rotary chipless | Pipe Ø10–100 mm, wall 0.5–6 mm | — | Metal tube with no chips, no burr |
| WM-183 | Toothless saw | Metal tube Ø1–30 mm | — | Armored and copper/stainless pipe |
| WM-562CNC | CNC saw | Brass/alu Ø0.6–48 mm, 6 m stock | 3.0 kW | Bar stock, programmed lengths |
| WM-591 | Rotary knife, precision | Rigid pipe ≤Ø52 mm | 0.05 mm at 100 mm | The tightest tolerance in the category |
| WM-575S | Roll-to-sheet | Film & sheet ≤1,220 mm wide | 0.1 mm | Cutting roll goods into sheets |
Frequently asked questions
Hot knife, cold blade or ultrasonic — how do I choose for sleeve and webbing?
By what the edge must do. Synthetics (PET braid, nylon, polyester) fray when cold-cut — a hot knife melts through and seals both faces in the same stroke, which is why braided sleeve is almost always hot-cut. Cold blades are for materials that hold their edge (tube, pipe) or must not be melted. Ultrasonic gives the sealed edge without a glowing blade, holds finer tolerances, and does what hot knives cannot: shaped cuts, V-cuts, hole punching and mark-positioned cutting on printed ribbon. Cotton and other natural fibers do not fuse on any of them.
What is chipless cutting and when does metal tube need it?
A rotary chipless cutter parts the tube by displacing material, not removing it — no chips inside the tube, no burr to deburr. 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.
Can corrugated loom be slit open in the same pass as cutting?
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.
Which machine cuts heat shrink tubing, and what happens after?
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.
What should an inquiry include?
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.
Selection and troubleshooting guides
Engineering guidance for choosing this process and correcting the defects that affect finished-wire quality.
Selection guide
How to Choose a Tube and Pipe Cutting Machine
Choose tube and pipe cutting equipment by material, diameter, wall thickness, rigidity, cut mechanism, tolerance, end quality and chip-control requirements.
Read engineering guide →Troubleshooting guide
Tube Cutting Defects: Causes and Corrective Actions
Troubleshoot angled cuts, crushed tube, burrs, stringing, length drift, corrugated-tube splitting errors and feed slippage.
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