Flat Laser Cutting Services UK
What Is Laser Cutting?
Laser cutting is a reliable and repeatable process that uses a focused laser beam to cut shapes and profiles from flat sheet metal plates. The laser generates intense heat at a pinpoint location, melting or vaporising the material while an assist gas (typically nitrogen) removes the molten material from the cut zone. This produces clean edges, fine details, and minimal distortion compared to traditional cutting methods.
Because laser cutting is all computer controlled, it offers consistent quality and repeatability. Complex geometries, tight tolerance and intricate features can be cut without the need for any physical tooling, this makes laser cutting ideal for both small batch components as well as high volume production.
Laser cutting is widely used across engineering, manufacturing and fabrication industries due to its speed, flexibility and high quality finish. Parts can be produced quickly with reduced waste, minimal heat affected zones and little requirement for secondary finishing, helping to streamline production and increase overall productivity.
Accuracy
Laser cutting produces consistent parts with tight tolerances, allowing complex shapes and fine details to be cut exactly as designed.
Repeatability
Once programmed, the laser cutting process delivers consistent results every time, ensuring each part matches the original specification across production runs.
Speed
High power fibre lasers cut quickly and efficiently, reducing lead times and making both small batch jobs and volume production faster to complete.
Reduced Secondary Operations
Clean cut edges and minimal heat distortion mean parts often require little to no additional finishing after laser cutting.
Our Flat Bed Laser Cutting Capability
Our flat bed laser cutting services are powered by multiple high performance Bystronic fibre laser machines, who are considered the industry leaders. We have a 10kW, 12kW and 20kW laser, this wide range of power output allows us to cut effectively across a broad spectrum of material types and thicknesses, while maintaining excellent edge quality and dimensional accuracy.
Higher power output enables faster cutting speeds, improved cut quality on thicker materials, and greater consistency across complex parts. This flexibility allows us to delegate jobs to the most suitable laser, allowing us to improve quality, productivity, and repeatability whether cutting thin detailed parts or heavy structural components.
We laser cut a wide range of materials, including mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper and even titanium.
Materials We Laser Cut
We combine proven expertise with modern laser cutting to achieve consistent results across a wide range of metals. Whether working with thin sheet or heavy plate, each job is delivered to a high, dependable standard.
Mild steel
Max thickness: 40mm
General fabrication, structural parts, brackets and frames.
Stainless steel
Max thickness: 50mm
Corrosion resistant parts for food, pharma and marine use.
Aluminium
Max thickness: 40mm
Lightweight components for panels, brackets and assemblies.
Brass
Max thickness: 20mm
Decorative and conductive components for trims and specialist parts.
Copper
Max thickness: 20mm
Electrical and thermal applications for conductive components.
Titanium
Max thickness: 20mm
High strength to weight parts for specialist applications.
Why Choose SSC For Laser Cutting?
Advanced Fibre Laser Cutting Technology
SSC Laser operates some of the most advanced fibre laser cutting systems in the UK, with laser power ratings up to 20kW. This allows us to cut everything from intricate profiles in thin sheet to heavy duty plate reliably and accurately.
We constantly deliver clean, consistent results across a wide range of materials.
Fast Turnaround & Responsive Service
Speed and reliability are central to our service, typical turnaround times for flat laser cutting are as little as two to four days, depending on the material and job complexity.
Fast working times extend beyond production, with the majority of customer enquiries answered within four working hours, helping to move projects forward without delay.
Quality Driven Laser Cutting Processes
Quality is built into every stage of our laser cutting process. Our experienced operators work with great care to achieve tight tolerances, excellent edge quality and repeatable results.
This is reinforced by our ISO 9001 and EN 1090 certifications, ensuring consistent quality control and traceability from order through to delivery.
Dedicated Support Backed by Experience
Every customer benefits from direct access to a dedicated point of contact who understands their requirements and supports them throughout the project. Backed by over 25 years of industry experience, our team brings deep technical knowledge across production, CAD, sales and customer support.
Many of our staff have been with SSC Laser for over a decade, providing continuity, expertise and a service you can rely on.
Laser Cutting Accuracy & Quality Control
Every part is produced using carefully controlled cutting parameters to achieve tight tolerances, clean cut edges and reliable repeatability across all materials and thicknesses.
Our quality control process focuses on dimensional accuracy, edge condition and overall part consistency. By monitoring cutting performance and inspecting finished components, we minimise variation and reduce the need for rework or secondary operations.
This attention to detail ensures laser cut parts fit correctly, perform as intended and maintain consistent quality across production runs. Whether producing a single component or a high volume order, our laser cutting service is built around accurate, reliability and confidence in the final result.
Mixed Gases
Design Support & Reverse Engineering
We accept a wide range of drawing formats, including DXF, DWG and STEP files, as well as PDF drawings. Our team reviews every submission, advises on cut feasibility and can optimise designs where needed to improve cut quality, efficiency or material usage.
We also offer a reverse engineering service for customers who do not have CAD files available. Using our QCT Inspecta measuring arm, we can accurately measure existing parts and recreate them digitally, ensuring critical dimensions and features are captured correctly. This allows us to produce replacement components, modified parts or improved designs ready for laser cutting.
From the initial enquiry through to finished components, our laser cutting process is straightforward, responsive and reliable. The result is accurately cut parts delivered on time, ready for assembly, fabrication or further processing.
Industries We Support
We support a wide range of industries across the UK, delivering laser cutting solutions tailored to each sectors specific requirements. The industries listed below represents just a selections of the sectors we work with, we are always happy to discuss new or specialist applications where laser cutting can add value.
Agricultural
Automotive
Architectural
Construction
Engineering
Highways
Marine
Oil & Gas
Pharmaceutical
Railways
Retail
Street Furniture
Laser Cutting FAQ
For flat profiles only, our common import type is DXF, DWG or NC (DSTV). We can import PDF’s however this is dependent of the quality of the PDF file provided. For folded profiles we prefer STP or IGS/IGES as these allow us to flatten out by the using the specified tooling, a detailed PDF is also ideal as this is what we issue to the shopfloor when we come to produce your part.
Yes, we are happy to cut free issue material as long as the quality is suitable for our lasers.
The traditional rule was that the thickness of the material was equal to the smallest diameter hole. But this has changed with the advances of laser technology allowing us to cut even smaller holes in thicker plate.
On our flat bed lasers, the materials we can currently process include mild steel (0.5-40mm), stainless steel (0.5-50mm) and aluminium (0.5mm to 40mm) in most forms. But the industry is changing with the advancement of fibre laser technology. We can also now cut Brass & Copper up to 20mm.
Machine suppliers quote plus or minus 0.2mm, though the reality is that this can vary significantly without constant servicing and maintenance. SSC may be able to work to tighter tolerances if requested.
It is probably the most cost-effective and fastest way of producing a clean and accurate profile.
This can vary dependent on optic cleanliness, but the optimum fiber laser beam is between 0.1mm - 0.2mm.
