Designs of horizontal straight cutting bandsaws
A horizontal bandsaw cuts the workpiece with a continuous saw band, the saw bow lowering horizontally onto the material. This is the standard design for cutting tubes, profiles, solid material and beams to length in a straight cut. The machines on this page are built for the straight cut at a right angle, without a swivelling frame for mitres.
KNUTH offers these straight-cutting horizontal bandsaws in robust designs for workshop, steel fabrication and heavy engineering: with a sturdy column guide as well as twin-column and pivot-bow construction. Twin-column machines guide the saw band especially rigidly and reach high cutting capacity, while the pivot-bow design is more compact in build.
Which page is right? If you only need straight cuts at a right angle and run economical series production, these fully automatic machines are the leaner solution. As soon as you also want to cut angles or mitres, the way leads to the mitre cutting bandsaws. Those cut straight too, but add the swivelling frame and cover a wider span from the manual workshop machine to the fully automatic.
KNUTH also supplies further designs for other cutting tasks:
Applications and industries
Horizontal bandsaws stand at the start of the process chain. They deliver the cut lengths for machining, for weld preparation and for the steel and metal trade. Typical workpieces are round steel, tubes, flat and square profiles as well as solid material. A clean, square cut is the condition for the following steps to fit without rework.
The machines are used in metal fabrication, in the steel and metal trade and across mining, oil and gas and heavy engineering. Wherever straight cuts of equal length are needed in high quantities, a fully automatic horizontal bandsaw plays to its strength.
Fully automatic bandsaws for series production
The horizontal bandsaws in this category work fully automatically. The material is fed by a motor-driven or hydraulic feed, and the cut lengths and cut sequences run through a programmable control. This lets you produce consistent straight cuts in high quantity economically, even over longer runs with reduced operator effort.
A fully automatic bandsaw pays off wherever series of equal length are cut regularly. Feed and cut sequence are set up once and repeat reliably, which relieves the operator and keeps dimensional accuracy constant across the whole series.
Which horizontal bandsaw suits your production
The choice depends above all on the largest cross section to be cut and on the material. Round and rectangular dimensions determine which size fits. Added to this is the design: the column guide for more compact needs, the twin-column and pivot-bow construction for high cutting capacity and throughput. We help with the sizing through advice to your needs. Request a quote.
Materials and cutting performance
Horizontal bandsaws cut structural steel, stainless steel, aluminium and non-ferrous metals. Decisive for a clean result are the right saw band, the correct cutting speed and the feed, matched to material and cross section. Soft and tough materials call for different band types and speeds than hardened steel, and solid material different from thin-walled tubes. Choosing these parameters correctly raises both the tool life of the saw band and the cut quality.
The specific cutting ranges for round and rectangular cross sections are stated with the individual models in the product grid, so you can select the machine directly by the largest cross section you need.
Saw bands, accessories and material handling
Cutting performance depends largely on the saw band. KNUTH offers a matching programme of saw blades and accessories for different materials and cross sections. For material feed and the safe transport of long workpieces, roller conveyors round off the setup.
Why KNUTH
KNUTH is a supplier of machine tools with its own quality process. The series are selected and quality-tested in Germany, and every machine is built and documented to European testing standards, with documentation available on request. You receive European quality without the European price, together with advice on the right machine size and support through local service partners.
Service, spare parts and availability
A ten-year spare parts availability guarantee applies to every horizontal bandsaw. Common spare parts come from our central warehouse, with special parts sourced directly from the manufacturers. For running operation we work with local service partners. We will confirm the availability of a specific machine on request. Request a quote.
Further Machine Categories at a Glance
Here is an overview of our machine range. Select a category to learn more about individual machines and their technical data.
