Flame Cutting

Flame Cutting

American Tank has the capacity to flame-cut carbon steel and alloy metals through 36 inch thicknesses. Our oversized burning tables can handle up to nine full-sized plates, and our 50-ton overhead cranes can handle the thickest material.

Please contact us for more information.


Thicknesses

  • Flame cutting through 36 inches (914 mm)
  • Plasma cutting through 6-1/2 inches (165 mm)
  • Weights exceeding 50 tons (45,359 Kg +)

Materials

  • Thicknesses from 1/8 to 20 inches (3 mm to 508 mm)
  • Mill certifications and full traceability for all materials
  • All grades of steel
    • Stainless
    • Aluminum
    • Monel®
    • Inconel®
    • High-strength steel (T-1, HY-80, HY-100)

Large Multi-torch Burning

Offering the tightest tolerances in the industry.

  • Up to 9 plates on one table (100 x 252 inches / 2.5 x 6.4 m)
  • Width: 21 feet (6.4 m)
  • Length: 76 feet (23 m)
  • Weights exceeding 50 tons (45 metric tons)
  • 8 torch Oxyfuel cutting through 8 inch (203 mm) thick material

Three-dimensional Burned Shapes

Replace your forgings or castings with multiplane-cut heavy steel plate. Our 3-D shapes can be cut from in-stock material for rapid nationwide delivery. Costly patterns, molds and dies are eliminated. Learn more about custom shape fabrications.

Beveling

Our beveling robots are equipped with camera-guided systems, which help us to achieve high tolerances for weld seam preparations.

  • Equipped with two 5-axis robotic heads
  • Cutting capacity - 13 feet by 50 feet (4 m by 15.2 m)
  • Oxyfuel contour beveling through 11 inches (279 mm)
  • Plasma contour beveling through 1 1/4 inch (29 mm)
  • Height and Edge sensors to provide exceptional accuracy
  • Off-line programming for complex requirements

Kitting

  • Ready-to-assemble kits
  • Eliminate inventory
  • Reduce handling
  • Just-in-time (JIT) delivery

Additional Services

  • Flame stripping
  • Stress relieving & heat treating
  • Large plate straightening (2,500 ton / 2,268 metric ton capacity)
  • Grit blasting
  • Blanchard grinding
  • Machining to any degree
  • Non-destructive testing - ultrasonic and magnetic particle