How thick can IK Plus laser cut?

Up to 30 mm mild steel, 16 mm stainless steel and 12 mm aluminium on a 6 kW fibre laser, material and grade dependent.

What is the laser bed size?

4000 x 2000 mm, so full standard sheets can be nested and cut in one setup.

How long a bend can IK Plus do?

Up to 4000 mm on a 160 tonne CNC press brake with a programmable back-gauge and approximately plus or minus 0.1 mm repeatability.

Which CAD formats does IK Plus accept?

DXF, DWG, STEP, IGES, SolidWorks and PDF drawings. Hand sketches and sample parts are also accepted and drawn up in-house.

Capabilities / Plant & envelope

Everything
we can actually do.

Every spec on this page, with nothing rounded up. What we cut, how thick, how long a bend, how much force. There is a calculator further down that you are welcome to use whether or not you ever send us a job.

6 kW fibre laser
160 T press brake
10 T overhead crane
15 kW compressor

Plant register

Every machine has
somebody's name on it.

Site Germiston

Shift Mon–Fri 07:00–17:00

PLANT 01

6 kW CNC fibre laser cutter

Power source	6 kW fibre
Bed size	4000 × 2000 mm
Max thickness	30 mm (material dependent)
Mild steel	Up to 30 mm
Stainless steel	Up to 16 mm
Aluminium	Up to 12 mm
Control	Precision cutting path, automatic height sensing
Nesting	CypNest / ProNest optimisation on every job

PLANT 02

160 T CNC press brake

Bending force	160 tonnes
Max bend length	4000 mm
Control	Fully CNC with programmable back-gauge
Repeatability	≈ ±0.1 mm
Bend types	Multi-stage, complex geometry, air bending
Tooling	Selected per material and thickness
Typical die	V ≈ 8 × material thickness
Surface	Tooling chosen to protect the finish

PLANT 03

10 T overhead crane

Heavy plate and large assemblies get moved in-house. No hired lifting gear, no waiting for it to turn up.

PLANT 04

15 kW air compressor

Assist gas and shop air, sized so the laser never sits waiting for pressure.

PLANT 05

2 × 350 W CO₂ welders

Fabrication, assembly and finishing here, so weldments never leave the building.

Material envelope

What we cut,
and where it stops.

Bed 4000 × 2000 mm

Bend 4000 mm / 160 T

Material	Max thickness	Typical grades	Notes
Mild steel	30 mm	S235 · S355 · plate & sheet	Clean edge, minimal burr through the range
Stainless steel	16 mm	304 · 316	Nitrogen cut for an oxide-free edge on thinner gauges
Aluminium	12 mm	5052 · 6082	Tooling selected to avoid marking the surface on bends

Thickness depends on material and grade. If your part sits right at the edge of that table, send it anyway. We will tell you honestly whether it cuts cleanly or whether you want plasma or waterjet instead.

Engineering tool

Work out your bend
before you draw it.

Method Air bending

K-factor 0.42

Tonnage, inside radius, minimum flange and bend deduction. Punch the numbers in and it will also tell you straight away whether our 160 T brake can do it. Free, no sign-up, nothing sent anywhere.

ResultAir bending

Die opening V—

Force per metre—

Total tonnage required—

Resulting inside radius—

Minimum flange—

Bend allowance—

Bend deduction—

if it says no, phone us anyway. there is usually a way round it

Air-bending estimate using P = 1.42 · Rm · t² / V, K-factor 0.42, inside radius ≈ 0.16 · V, minimum flange ≈ 0.63 · V. Real tooling, grain direction and whatever batch the steel came from will all move these numbers a bit. Treat it as a sanity check, not gospel.

Draughting office

We work from your file,
not a redraw of it.

Your native file goes straight to production instead of getting redrawn by hand. Redrawing is where dimensions quietly change, and nobody notices until the part is on site.

AutoCAD

2D draughting and DXF preparation

Inventor

3D parametric modelling

SolidWorks

Sheet-metal models and flat patterns

CypCut

Laser machine control

CypNest

Nesting and sheet layout

ProNest

Advanced material optimisation

The facility

All of it, one roof.

Address 44 Ilana Street, Delville

The IK Plus workshop floor with overhead crane — Workshop floor
Laser, brake, welding bays and crane, all within shouting distance.

10 tonne overhead crane above the IK Plus workshop — Material handling
10 tonnes overhead, so nothing waits for a hired crane.

An IK Plus operator running the fibre laser — Dedicated operators
Trained technicians who stay on the same machine, not whoever is free.

Book a floor walk See what comes off these machines →

Not sure your part fits?

The estimator checks size, thickness and bend force against these exact machines, and tells you before you commit to anything.

Check my part

Everythingwe can actually do.

Every machine hassomebody's name on it.

6 kW CNC fibre laser cutter

160 T CNC press brake

10 T overhead crane

15 kW air compressor

2 × 350 W CO₂ welders

What we cut,and where it stops.

Work out your bendbefore you draw it.

We work from your file,not a redraw of it.

AutoCAD

Inventor

SolidWorks

CypCut

CypNest

ProNest

All of it, one roof.

Workshop floor

Material handling

Dedicated operators

Not sure your part fits?

Everything
we can actually do.

Every machine has
somebody's name on it.

What we cut,
and where it stops.

Work out your bend
before you draw it.

We work from your file,
not a redraw of it.