[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":16},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f28inapwu5h2on":3,"$fzqgqbbhjlpr5":12},{"slug":4,"category":5,"date":6,"headline":7,"lead":8,"image":9,"imageAlt":10,"body":11},"what-we-cut-most-often","TECHNOLOGY","2026-08-14","What we cut most often","A year of orders, counted: stainless steel takes more than half the volume, and 4 mm is the thickness that keeps coming back.","\u002Fvideos\u002Flasercut-cutting.jpg","The fibre laser mid-cut, the head tracking a glowing kerf down a sheet lying on the slat bed","Stainless steel accounts for 55.7 % of everything that goes through the machines, most of it 1.4301 \u002F AISI 304; carbon steel follows at 22.4 %, aluminium at 16.7 % and galvanised steel at 5.6 %. Thickness splits between two habits — 4 mm at 33.3 % for structural parts, brackets and frames, and 0.5 mm at 27.8 % for covers, shields and enclosures — while 5 to 10 mm turns up wherever a part has to carry load. The orders themselves arrive from four countries: Slovakia at 44.4 %, Austria at 27.8 %, Germany at 16.7 % and Slovenia at 5.6 % — what an online cutting service looks like once distance stops deciding where a part gets made.",{"items":13,"total":15},[14],{"slug":4,"category":5,"date":6,"headline":7,"lead":8,"image":9,"imageAlt":10,"body":11},1,1792578146091]