HPM Structural Profile Cutting System

HPM is Vantix's dual-station structural profile cutting platform.

The front station processes structural profile, including H-beam, I-beam, channel and angle. The rear station handles flat sheet and plate, and the two stations can run synchronously rather than waiting on each other.

It uses a 5-axis cutting head with a continuous plus or minus 45 degree bevel range, which means weld-joint preparation happens during cutting rather than at a separate grinding station afterward. For a structural shop that is usually the difference the machine is actually bought for.

Yes. The HPM cutting head, a BLT442P with an AB-axis, bevels continuously through plus or minus 45 degrees. It produces straight cuts, V-cuts, Y-cuts and finished weld-joint preparation, with integrated auto-focus and zoom.

Cutting the bevel in the same setup removes the secondary grinding station entirely. In most structural shops that station is the constraint the weld team waits on, not the cutting itself, so removing it changes throughput more than a faster cutting speed would.

The HPM bed is built from modular 20 ft sections and extends up to 200 ft.

Because it is sectional, the machine can be specified for the beam lengths you handle now and lengthened later rather than replaced. That is a genuinely useful property for a structural shop, where the length of work you win tends to grow with the capability you install.

Motion components are rated IP67, on a stress-relieved welded bed with side-mounted rails.

The HPM ships with high-sensitivity light curtains, zoned PLC-controlled dust extraction and active workpiece compensation.

The light curtain arrangement is specified to be sign-off ready for procurement and safety review, which matters when a machine has to clear an internal safety process before it can be commissioned. That process is a common and avoidable source of delay between delivery and first production.

Site-specific requirements still need to be reviewed with your own health and safety authority, since jurisdiction and insurer requirements vary.

Four things tell us almost everything: the materials you run, the thickness range, your monthly volume, and where the current bottleneck actually is.

That last one matters most and is the one most often skipped. A shop that is slow because tube prep is manual does not need a faster sheet cutter, and a shop losing days to weld distortion does not need more cutting capacity. Buying against a bottleneck you have not identified is the most common way a good machine produces a disappointing result.

Send those four and we will recommend a starting configuration rather than guessing at a model.

Yes, and it is worth doing. The showroom in Lumby, British Columbia has cutting, welding and cleaning systems available to run.

Bring your own material and your own drawings. A machine cutting a vendor's demo part tells you very little, because that part was chosen to suit the machine. The same machine cutting your part, at your thickness, in your alloy, tells you almost everything you need to know.

Book ahead so the right configuration is set up and the material is ready when you arrive.

Financing can be arranged, and it is worked through during the quote process.

We do not publish fixed rates, terms or payment examples here, for a straightforward reason: they depend on the system, the structure you want, your business and the lender, so any number shown on this page would not be the number on your agreement. Publishing one would only make the real quote look like a change of terms.

Ask for financing to be included when you request a quote and it will be worked out alongside the machine specification.

Support scope, training, parts coverage and response commitments are set out in the quote package and the customer agreement for your specific system and location.

We keep those specifics out of a general FAQ deliberately. A support commitment is only worth anything if it is written into your agreement, and the right arrangement for a shop two hours from Lumby is not the same as one for a shop in Atlantic Canada. A number published on a web page is not a commitment to anyone.

Ask for it in writing at quote stage. That advice holds for every vendor you are evaluating, not just this one.