Looking to invest in a cutting machine that would improve the scope of service, a subcontractor chose a combined gas and plasma-arc system for versatility and high accuracy. H and JW Howells chose an ESAB Automation Hancoportal gas and plasma machine that is allowing H and JW Howells to provide an all-round profiling capability from a single investment. H and JW Howells supplies a wide range of customers from a range of different industries including aerospace, defence, mining and quarrying and petrochemical. The Hancoportal’s versatility has enabled their varying cutting requirements to be satisfied. Among these are profiling of mild and stainless steel, as well as aluminium, in thicknesses ranging from 10 to 200mm. Hancoportal can be equipped with both gas and plasma heads to cut a variety of different metals and thicknesses and has offered Howells levels of cutting versatility not available with their existing small optical gas cutting machine.