2-Chuck Fiber Laser Cutting Machine for Metal Tube Cutting

The CK-6020-TH High-Speed Dual-Chuck Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine is specifically designed for high-volume metal tube processing, offering an ideal combination of high performance and exceptional cost-effectiveness. As an industrial-grade laser tube cutting solution, it delivers high-speed, high-precision cutting, low material waste, easy maintenance, and advanced intelligent functions.

Designed for the automated cutting of both standard and irregular metal tubes, the machine is widely used in industries such as fitness equipment, fencing and partition systems, agricultural greenhouses, HVAC ducting, warehouse racking, steel trusses, and general metal fabrication. It is an ideal solution for small and medium-sized manufacturers as well as large-scale production lines looking to improve product quality, increase productivity, and reduce manufacturing costs.

The machine features a professional side-mounted machine bed combined with a reinforced triangular frame structure, providing exceptional rigidity, structural stability, and load-bearing capacity. Even under prolonged heavy-duty operation, the robust frame effectively minimizes vibration and deformation, ensuring consistent machining accuracy throughout continuous batch production.

The machine is equipped with a high-efficiency pneumatic 2-chuck system designed for easy disassembly and maintenance, making routine inspection and servicing faster and more convenient. The dual chucks feature adaptive clamping capability, providing secure and reliable gripping of round tubes, square tubes, rectangular tubes, racetrack (obround) tubes, oval tubes, angle steel, channel steel, and a wide variety of custom profiles. With a maximum clamping diameter of 230 mm, the system accommodates tubes of various sizes and specifications.

To address common challenges in long-tube processing—such as reduced machining accuracy, unstable clamping, and tube sagging—the machine incorporates a dedicated forward-moving front chuck specifically designed for laser tube cutting, together with a synchronized intermediate tube support system. This dual-support configuration provides exceptional stability and precision when machining long workpieces.

During extra-long tube processing, the front chuck moves forward as required to provide enhanced support, while the synchronized support follows the movement of the tube in real time, continuously supporting the workpiece throughout the cutting process. This effectively minimizes tube sagging, vibration, displacement, uneven cut quality, and dimensional deviations at both ends of the tube, significantly improving clamping stability, overall machining accuracy, and finished-product yield for long workpieces. In addition, the optimized load distribution reduces stress and wear on the pneumatic chucks, extending the service life of critical components while lowering long-term maintenance and operating costs.

The machine is equipped with the BOCHU Intelligent Tube Cutting System, offering powerful functionality, intuitive operation, and a high level of automation. Intelligent features include automatic tube diameter detection, automatic laser focusing, high-speed fly cutting, intelligent nesting optimization, breakpoint resume cutting, and automatic optimization of cutting paths and processing parameters. When used together with BOCHU TubePro professional tube nesting software and its proven process database, operators can achieve time-saving, labor-saving, and material-saving production without repeatedly adjusting cutting parameters, allowing even first-time users to become proficient quickly.

The machine is equipped with a fully automatic loading system, enabling automatic tube feeding, automatic centering, automatic clamping, and continuous unmanned processing throughout the entire production cycle. This effectively eliminates the limitations of conventional manual loading, including low loading efficiency, positioning inaccuracies, and intensive labor requirements, significantly improving production automation and overall manufacturing efficiency. It is particularly well suited for high-volume, continuous production environments.

To further expand its processing capabilities, the machine supports optional bevel cutting according to specific production requirements. It is capable of producing a variety of bevel types, including V-grooves and K-grooves, making it suitable for pre-welding preparation, precision struct

Details of the 2-Chuck Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine With Feeding System

Heavy-duty side-mounted machine bed

The heavy-duty side-mounted machine bed undergoes stress-relief aging treatment to ensure exceptional structural rigidity, outstanding load-bearing capacity, and superior vibration resistance. It effectively absorbs vibrations generated during high-speed cutting, maintaining excellent dimensional stability without deformation even under prolonged heavy-duty operation.

Maxphotonics (Max) 3000W fiber laser source

Equipped with a MAX 3000W fiber laser source, the machine delivers stable beam quality and high electro-optical conversion efficiency, providing a reliable laser source for high-speed, high-precision cutting of various metal tubes and profiles.

BOCHU BLT310T intelligent laser cutting head

The machine is fitted with the BOCHU BLT310T intelligent laser cutting head, featuring integrated lens temperature monitoring, assist gas pressure monitoring, and collision protection to ensure safe, stable, and reliable cutting performance.

Pneumatic 2-chuck clamping system

The pneumatic dual-chuck system supports tube diameters of up to 230 mm and incorporates functions such as a forward-moving front chuck and short remnant cutting, significantly improving cutting accuracy for long tubes while maximizing material utilization.

Follow-up support system

A follow-up support device is installed at the center of the machine bed to continuously support the workpiece during processing. It effectively minimizes tube sagging and vibration caused by the tube's own weight, significantly improving cutting accuracy and finished-product yield.

Chain-type automatic loading system

Equipped with a chain-type automatic loading system, the machine supports various tubes and profiles. The magazine holds up to four tubes at a time, while the self-centering feature ensures fast, accurate, and continuous loading.

Drawers for collecting finished workpieces

Multiple drawers are installed beneath the machine to collect finished workpieces after processing. Operators only need to pull out the drawers to conveniently retrieve and organize the completed parts.

Inovance servo system

The laser cutter is powered by an Inovance EtherCAT absolute servo system, utilizing the EtherCAT protocol for rapid response, high positioning accuracy. It provides powerful and reliable motion control for high-speed, high-precision cutting.

High-precision transmission system

The transmission system combines high-precision linear guideways with precision-ground helical rack and pinion drives, minimizing transmission backlash while ensuring exceptionally smooth motion. This substantially improves positioning accuracy during high-speed operation as well as repeatability in continuous production.

Fully enclosed drag chain

A fully enclosed cable drag chain neatly organizes electrical cables, oil lines, and pneumatic hoses, preventing interference during machine operation while protecting them from dust, debris, and harsh workshop environments, thereby enhancing system reliability and service life.

Hanli 3000W industrial chiller

The chiller features a dual-circuit constant-temperature cooling system with a temperature control accuracy of ±1°C. It maintains the laser source and laser cutting head at their optimal operating temperatures for stable performance and is equipped with multiple fault alarm functions to ensure reliable operation.

BOCHU FSCUT3000DE-M system

The laser cutter adopts the BOCHU FSCUT3000DE-M EtherCAT-based control system specially developed for tube laser cutting. Combined with TubePro professional tube nesting software and the WKB-V6 wireless handheld controller, it provides intelligent, intuitive, and highly efficient machine operation.

Technical Parameters of the 2-Chuck Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine With Feeding System

Features of the 2-Chuck Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine With Feeding System

1. Heavy-Duty Side-Mounted Machine Bed

The laser cutting machine features a heavy-duty side-mounted machine bed constructed from large-section thick-walled steel tubes. The frame is fully welded and undergoes stress-relief aging treatment to eliminate residual welding stress, effectively preventing deformation, weld cracking, and structural fatigue during long-term operation.

The bed is supported by multiple high-strength support legs reinforced with steel tubing to form a rigid triangular support structure. This design significantly enhances the machine's overall rigidity, load-bearing capacity, and resistance to vibration and impact, providing substantially greater structural stability than conventional horizontal machine beds.

Even during continuous 24/7 heavy-duty production, the machine maintains outstanding cutting accuracy and positioning precision, effectively preventing accuracy degradation caused by frame deformation. The robust machine structure provides a solid foundation for high-speed cutting, precision machining, and long-term operational reliability.

2. BOCHU BLT310T Intelligent Laser Cutting Head

The BOCHU BLT310T intelligent laser cutting head features a compact design and an IP65 protection rating. Three layers of protective lenses effectively prevent dust, smoke, and moisture from entering the optical chamber, significantly extending lens service life while reducing maintenance costs.

An integrated high-frequency capacitive height sensing module provides rapid response and highly accurate automatic height control with a tracking accuracy of ±0.01 mm. The cutting head also features ±50 mm motorized automatic focusing, allowing it to quickly adapt to round tubes, square tubes, angle steel, channel steel, and various irregular profiles while maintaining both high cutting efficiency and superior cut quality.

Built-in assist gas pressure and protective lens temperature sensors continuously monitor operating conditions and provide real-time warnings of abnormal status, ensuring safe and stable cutting performance.

To further improve operational reliability, the cutting head incorporates a collision protection mechanism. In the event of an accidental collision, the lower cutting module automatically separates from the upper body, absorbing the impact and minimizing the risk of damage to the cutting head. This reduces repair costs and machine downtime.

For expanded processing capabilities, the machine can be optionally equipped with a BOCHU BLT5 Series laser cutting head, enabling bevel cutting functions such as V-grooves and K-grooves to meet pre-welding preparation and other advanced fabrication requirements.

3. Maxphotonics 3000W Fiber Laser Source

The machine is powered by a Maxphotonics 3000W industrial-grade fiber laser source, utilizing mature and proven fiber laser technology to deliver reliable performance across a wide range of metal cutting applications.

Operating at a wavelength of 1080 nm with an electro-optical conversion efficiency exceeding 40%, the laser provides high-speed, high-quality cutting of stainless steel, carbon steel, galvanized tubes, alloy tubes, and many other commonly used metal materials.

To ensure safe and reliable operation, the laser source incorporates multiple protection functions, including back-reflection protection, overvoltage protection, overload protection, overtemperature protection, and short-circuit protection, significantly improving overall machine safety and operational reliability.

The laser source features a maintenance-free design with no consumable components requiring routine replacement and a service life of up to 100,000 hours. Its high-purity, highly stable laser output enables rapid piercing, high-speed cutting, smooth cut edges with minimal burrs and dross, and excellent machining consistency for demanding tube processing applications.

4. High-Precision Pneumatic Dual-Chuck System

The machine is equipped with a side-mounted high-precision pneumatic dual-chuck clamping system that delivers stable and reliable pneumatic clamping force for secure workpiece positioning and indexing.

The standard chuck accommodates tube diameters of up to 230 mm, with an optional 350 mm large-diameter chuck available for processing oversized tubes. The versatile dual-chuck system securely grips round tubes, square tubes, rectangular tubes, angle steel, channel steel, and a wide variety of custom profiles.

For extra-long tube applications, the machine incorporates a forward-moving front chuck. By dynamically moving the front chuck closer to the cutting area, the unsupported length of the tube is significantly reduced, providing greater workpiece support and substantially improving clamping stability, cutting straightness, and overall machining accuracy while minimizing errors caused by tube sagging and vibration.

The machine also supports short remnant cutting, maximizing raw material utilization by minimizing leftover material at the end of each tube. This improves material yield, reduces production costs, and delivers greater economic benefits for manufacturers.

5. Follw-Up Tube Support System

The follow-up support system automatically adjusts its height in real time based on tube dimensions, cutting position, and workpiece movement, delivering continuous, stable support throughout the entire machining process. This ensures reliable handling of long workpieces and greatly enhances overall processing stability.

6. Automatic Loading System

The machine comes standard with a fully automatic intelligent loading system, offering a high level of automation that effectively replaces manual loading. By minimizing operator intervention, the system substantially increases production efficiency while significantly reducing labor requirements and operating costs.

Designed for exceptional versatility, the loading system supports the automatic loading of a wide range of standard and structural metal profiles, including round tubes, square tubes, rectangular tubes, angle steel, channel steel, H-beams, and various custom profiles.

A robust chain-driven feeding mechanism ensures smooth, reliable material transport with high conveying efficiency while minimizing the risk of jamming or misalignment. Combined with an automatic centering system and servo-controlled lifting mechanism, the loader intelligently adjusts its lifting height and support force according to the tube diameter, wall thickness, length, and other workpiece specifications, ensuring stable and accurate loading for different types of materials.

This loading process effectively eliminates common issues associated with manual loading, such as inaccurate positioning, tube misalignment, and unnecessary production delays. The material magazine accommodates up to four raw tubes at one time, enabling continuous unattended loading and uninterrupted production. By significantly reducing non-productive time spent on material preparation, loading, replacement, and alignment, the system increases effective machine utilization and overall production efficiency.

With fully automated material handling, intelligent adjustment, and stable feeding, the automatic loading system not only enhances production safety and reduces operator workload but also ensures consistently efficient production while lowering overall manufacturing costs.

7. Inovance EtherCAT Absolute Servo System

The drive system utilizes Inovance EtherCAT absolute servo motors, combining the industrial-grade EtherCAT high-speed fieldbus communication protocol with 23-bit absolute encoders to deliver exceptional positioning resolution and accurate position memory.

Unlike incremental servo systems, the absolute encoder eliminates the need for homing after power-up, allowing the machine to begin processing immediately after startup. This significantly reduces machine preparation time and improves overall production efficiency.

The servo system offers outstanding dynamic performance, featuring rapid speed-loop response, excellent motion tracking, and extremely low bus synchronization error. It enables precise multi-axis synchronized motion control, ensuring smooth, stable, and highly accurate machine movement even during high-speed operation, thereby maintaining outstanding cutting accuracy and machining consistency.

The servo motors also provide excellent overload capacity and strong resistance to load fluctuations, making them well suited for heavy-duty continuous production and frequent start-stop operating conditions. Combined with an efficient cooling design and a high protection rating, the system delivers reliable long-term performance with low failure rates, providing powerful and dependable motion control for demanding tube processing applications.

8. Kofon Planetary Gear Reducer

The servo system is paired with a Kofon high-precision planetary gear reducer, which provides speed reduction, torque multiplication, inertia matching, and load buffering. This enables the servo system to fully realize its performance potential while improving overall transmission efficiency and operational stability.

The reducer features a precision planetary gear transmission with high-accuracy ground gears, offering superior tooth profile accuracy, minimal backlash, and low transmission error. With a transmission efficiency of over 97%, it effectively minimizes power loss, maximizes power transmission efficiency, and significantly enhances the machine's load-handling capability and dynamic response under heavy-duty operating conditions.

The complete drive system combines high rigidity, high torque output, and low backlash to minimize positioning errors caused by transmission clearance. This results in higher motion control accuracy, improved machining consistency, and reliable long-term performance for high-speed, high-precision tube cutting applications.

9. Hanli 3000W Chiller

The laser cutter is equipped with a Hanli 3000W fiber laser chiller featuring a dual-circuit cooling system that separately controls the temperatures of the laser source and the laser cutting head. This ensures stable long-term operation of the optical system while maintaining optimal cutting performance.

The chiller provides high-precision temperature control with an accuracy of ±1°C, delivering continuous and stable cooling for extended periods of uninterrupted operation.

The unit also incorporates an intelligent fault alarm system with comprehensive monitoring and protection functions, including water flow detection, over-temperature protection, low water level protection, and overload protection. In the event of abnormal operating conditions, the system immediately issues an alarm and activates protective shutdown to ensure safe machine operation.

Designed for excellent environmental adaptability, the chiller operates reliably in ambient temperatures ranging from -20°C to 40°C, providing continuous, efficient, and dependable temperature control for the laser system.

10. BOCHU FSCUT3000DE-M System

The FSCUT3000DE-M integrates with TubePro professional tube cutting software and the WKB-V6 wireless handheld controller. The hardware and software work seamlessly together to provide an efficient, intelligent, and reliable control solution for tube processing.

The control system supports a wide range of intelligent functions, including automatic tube center finding, automatic laser focusing, high-speed fly cutting, and floating coordinate machining. It is compatible with round tubes, square tubes, rectangular tubes, racetrack (obround) tubes, oval tubes, angle steel, channel steel, and various custom profiles.

The system automatically optimizes cutting paths to reduce non-cutting travel time, improve material utilization, and increase overall production efficiency, further enhancing the machine's level of automation.

TubePro includes a comprehensive built-in tube processing database and can be used together with TubesT nesting software to perform intelligent nesting functions such as automatic nesting and common-line nesting. This minimizes material waste, improves nesting efficiency, and meets the requirements of high-volume production.

The included WKB-V6 wireless handheld controller utilizes stable wireless communication, eliminating the limitations of traditional wired pendants. Equipped with dedicated function keys and user-programmable shortcut buttons, it allows operators to conveniently perform machine start/stop, axis jogging, edge finding, autofocus adjustment, homing, and other setup and control operations from virtually anywhere around the machine, providing greater flexibility and ease of operation.

11. Auxiliary Systems

Automatic Lubrication System: The machine is equipped with a fully automatic lubrication system that provides scheduled and metered lubrication without manual intervention. During operation, the system continuously applies a uniform lubricating film to critical transmission components, effectively reducing friction and wear on the linear guideways, ball screws, and other moving parts. By eliminating the inconsistencies and delays associated with manual lubrication, the system ensures optimal lubrication at all times, significantly extending the service life of the transmission system while reducing maintenance requirements and improving long-term operational reliability.

Electrical Cabinet Air Conditioner: The electrical cabinet is equipped with a constant-temperature cabinet air conditioner, designed to effectively address issues such as dust accumulation, moisture, uneven heat dissipation, and large ambient temperature fluctuations. Featuring precise temperature control, the cooling system automatically adjusts its cooling capacity according to the workshop environment and machine operating load, maintaining a stable internal cabinet temperature. This prevents overheating of critical electrical components—including servo drives, controllers, power supplies, and other electronic devices—thereby reducing the risk of alarms, faults, and unexpected downtime.

Applications of the 2-Chuck Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine With Feeding System

Outdoor Equipment Industry

Industry Demands: High-volume cutting of carbon steel, galvanized steel, stainless steel, and alloy tubes for the production of photovoltaic mounting systems, outdoor security equipment brackets, streetlight poles, traffic guardrails, surveillance camera supports, landscape structural frames, protective frames for outdoor equipment, and hollow structural components for outdoor energy storage systems.

Reasons for Selection: Designed for high-volume production involving multiple materials and long workpieces, the machine's fully automatic loading system eliminates the inefficiencies associated with repeated manual loading and unloading of long tubes, ensuring continuous, stable production. Its high-precision cutting capability is ideal for manufacturing corrosion-resistant structural components such as solar mounting systems and guardrails with exceptional dimensional accuracy.

Fitness Equipment Industry

Industry Demands: Batch processing of 201 and 304 stainless steel tubes, precision carbon steel tubes, and thin-wall alloy round, square, and rectangular tubes for treadmill frames, exercise bike supports, strength training equipment, outdoor fitness equipment, handrails, hollow connecting components, and complex structural tubing requiring excellent flatness, straightness, and structural integrity.

Reasons for Selection: High-precision laser cutting ensures outstanding dimensional consistency for thin-wall and custom-profile tubes in mass production. This provides reliable assembly accuracy and structural safety for fitness equipment operating under continuous dynamic loads.

HVAC Industry

Industry Demands: Mass production of carbon steel, galvanized steel, and stainless steel tubes for ventilation ducts, heat exchanger tubing, pipe supports, HVAC mounting brackets, pipe connectors, fresh-air system components, central air-conditioning support structures, and fire ventilation system fittings.

Reasons for Selection: To meet the HVAC industry's requirements for diverse tube specifications, complex assemblies, and high sealing performance, the machine integrates cutting, hole processing, bevel cutting (optional), and intersection cutting into a single setup. This minimizes dimensional deviations while significantly improving the fit and sealing performance of pipe joints, supports, and heat exchange equipment.

Medical Equipment Industry

Industry Demands: Precision cutting of medical-grade 304 and 316L stainless steel tubing, titanium alloy tubes, and high-precision alloy profiles for hospital bed frames, rehabilitation equipment, medical instrument supports, operating room accessories, medical handrails, and lightweight hollow structural components.

Reasons for Selection: The machine utilizes non-contact laser cutting, eliminating surface contamination and deformation caused by conventional mechanical machining. This preserves the original surface finish of medical-grade stainless steel and titanium alloys while meeting the medical industry's demanding standards for cleanliness, precision, and material integrity.

Handrail and Guardrail Industry

Industry Demands: High-volume processing of stainless steel round, square, and rectangular tubes, as well as coated carbon steel tubing for stair handrails, balcony railings, bridge guardrails, municipal fencing, courtyard fences, shopping mall handrails, industrial safety barriers, and custom decorative railing systems.

Reasons for Selection: The automatic loading and feeding system eliminates the inefficiencies of manually handling long tubes, greatly increasing production throughput. High-precision cutting produces smooth, burr-free edges that provide accurate fit-up surfaces for subsequent bending and welding, ensuring superior installation quality and aesthetic appearance.

Kitchen & Bathroom Industry

Industry Demands: Flexible, small-batch production of 201, 304, and 316 stainless steel, galvanized steel, and thin-wall carbon steel tubes for kitchen and bathroom frames, storage racks, hardware supports, premium metal furniture, cabinet structures, balcony railings, bathroom safety rails, and decorative custom-profile tubing.

Reasons for Selection: Well-suited for highly customized manufacturing, the machine enables flexible production without the need for dedicated tooling. It rapidly accommodates different tube profiles while producing smooth, burr-free cut surfaces that improve assembly precision and surface quality, meeting the premium appearance and safety requirements of modern furniture and kitchen & bathroom products

Warehousing and Logistics Industry

Industry Demands: High-volume cutting of carbon steel, galvanized steel, and stainless steel round, square, and rectangular tubes for heavy-duty warehouse racking, automated storage systems, conveyor equipment frames, logistics handling equipment, forklift components, warehouse safety barriers, machine bases, and partition structures.

Reasons for Selection: For industries requiring high structural strength, dimensional consistency, and mass production, the automatic loading system significantly improves the cutting efficiency of heavy-wall structural tubes. Precise length control and clean cut edges ensure excellent assembly accuracy, maintaining the verticality and alignment of warehouse racking systems and conveyor equipment.

Structural Steel Industry

Industry Demands: Large-scale processing of structural round tubes, square and rectangular tubes, channel steel, angle steel, and curtain wall structural profiles for building frames, steel supports, embedded pipeline components, curtain wall connectors, construction safety structures, industrial trusses, and beveled tubes for structural welding.

Reasons for Selection: The laser cutting machine features a high-rigidity dual-chuck clamping system with a maximum workpiece capacity of 300 kg. It supports tube lengths of up to 6.5 m and standard processing diameters ranging from Φ15–230 mm, with larger chuck diameters available upon request. This enables efficient processing of structural steel tubes in a wide range of sizes while maintaining exceptional machining accuracy and productivity.