What are the benefits of metal shearing?
- Straighter and cleaner edges
- Faster cuts
- No chips
- Works with soft and hard metals
- Minimal waste
- Versatility
Shearing is a metal fabrication process that is widely used by many steel manufacturing companies to trim and remove unwanted materials from metal sheets. It uses tools or machines to slice the metal sheet with the right amount of precision.
Fortunately, metal shearing doesn’t need heat but a cold temperature so that a steel manufacturer can perform metal shearing better — making the metals look more attractive to the customers.
That being said, there is more to metal shearing than precision and aesthetics. Take a look at the many benefits of metal shearing!
What Is Metal Shearing?
Metal shearing is a type of metal-cutting process that uses force to cut the metal to its desired length. The force applied to this process is called shearing force.
What happens is the metal is held properly in place, the cutting size of the metal is determined, and the two blades use their force to cut through the metal. Moreover, one of the blades moves towards the metal, while the other blade is stationary against the metal during the metal shearing process.
Benefits Of Metal Shearing
Metal shearing provides several stand-out benefits over other steel-cutting methods. Read on to learn more.
Straighter And Cleaner Edges
Unlike other cutting processes that make the metal edges jagged or deformed, the metal shearing process uses a punch and straight blades, which forms straighter, smoother, and cleaner edges.
Even softer materials that are typically hard to cut and clean can be cut using metal shearing with a better result.
Faster Cuts
The metal shearing process is also faster than many other metal-cutting processes.
At Regan Industrial Sales, Inc., our expert metal fabrication team can quickly cut metal into pieces by running them through our shearing tool. Thus, we don’t have to wait for the shearing tool to warm up because when we turn it on, we can automatically use it to cut the metals. This makes metal shearing faster than plasma and torch cutting. In addition, faster cuts mean lessening labor costs, making our steel products in the Philippines more affordable.
No Chips
One of the top benefits of metal shearing is that no chips are produced. Chips are the excess materials when cutting metals. By opting for metal shearing, your cutting process becomes highly efficient by preventing excess waste in the form of these chips.
Works With Soft And Hard Metals
As we’ve mentioned, metal shearing offers no chips which helps the process work well with either soft or hard metals including steel, aluminum, bronze, and brass.
When cutting hard metals, higher-powered machinery is required to help cut the metals faster. Luckily, shearing tools are high-powered machines that can cut all types of metals. That’s why whether you’re cutting soft or hard metals, you are guaranteed that the metals you need for projects are of good quality — thanks to metal shearing.
Minimal Waste
Metal shearing produces little to no waste, which helps in protecting the environment. Less waste ends up in landfills and the manufacturing process speeds up, which cuts down direct carbon emissions.
Here at Regan Industrial Sales, Inc., metal shearing helps us to reduce the cost of production since no money will be turned into a wasted product as the metals are all equally cut into their desired size. We can cut the straight metals on sheetrock, and the blades can be mounted at an angle to help cut smaller metals in a short period. Thus, there’s no doubt that metal shearing is the only method that many steel manufacturers can adapt to because of its precise process.
Versatility
Given that metal shearing can cut all types of metals, it also offers versatility for different types of cuts. Shearing can be fulfilled at almost any length and diameter as small as 0.0750.
For our customers that require high output operations by using the metal shearing process, they are guaranteed perfectly cut the metals with minimal waste, which improves the overall level of efficiency of the metals. This is a good opportunity for different industries to trust our metal shearing process because it gives higher profit margins for you.
Key Takeaway
In this blog, we’ve walked you through the benefits of metal shearing. It is pivotal to your projects that require good quality cut metals. If you’d like to learn more about metal shearing and other steel products in the Philippines, contact Regan Industrial Sales, Inc. today and one of our friendly and highly-trained team members would be glad to answer your inquiries!
At RISI, our years of experience in the steel industry allow us to produce a wide variety of high-quality steel products. Our team has extensive knowledge of how to perform metal shearing to get the best results our customers deserve.
