You're Already Buying Eighty Percent of a Tube Laser. Why Not Get the Other Twenty?
The HYBRIX™ Combo Laser by PB Lasers gives you sheet cutting and tube cutting in one machine, one footprint, one investment. It's the most economical way to enter the laser business — because the cost is less than labor.
We'll help you decide if combo is the right call — or if you need dedicated machines.
You Need Two Machines. You Have One Budget. And Zero Floor Space to Waste.
You're cutting sheet on plasma — or outsourcing it. You're cutting tube with a cold saw, a bandsaw, or you're not cutting tube at all and subbing it out. Either way, you're paying twice: once for the sheet work, once for the tube work. Two processes. Two sets of post-cut labor. Two bottlenecks.
And you've looked at the numbers. A dedicated sheet laser plus a dedicated tube laser is two machines, two footprints, two investments. For a growing shop that does framing, structural, box work, table work, railings, or any combination of flat and tube — that's a lot of capital before the first cut.
The HYBRIX™ solves both problems with one machine. Not by compromising. By being smart about what you're already buying.
When you buy any laser, you're buying a resonator, a fiber optic cable, a cutting head, and electronics. That's eighty percent of the cost. The HYBRIX™ extends the gantry approximately three feet and adds the tube function. You're not buying two machines. You're buying one machine that does both — and the financial jump from sheet-only to sheet-plus-tube is a fraction of what a second machine would cost.
We Spent Thirty Dollars to Find You. Not Eighteen Million.
PB Lasers is not one of the big six. We don't have a twenty-million-dollar trade show budget. We don't have a service contract business model. We don't have a C-suite with four hundred people. That means we don't have their prices.
Our company is built on a concept called Means of Manufacturing™. The machine comes first. The machine has to run. The person operating it has to know it inside out — not because of a service contract, but because independence is the goal.
The HYBRIX™ exists because we asked a simple question: if a fabricator is already buying the resonator, the fiber, the head, and the electronics for a sheet laser, why should the tube function cost them an entire second machine? It shouldn't. So we built it as an extension, not an addition.
We don't sell machines. We create competent, independent operators who become long-term clients and buy the next piece of equipment from us because they trust us.
The Best of Both Worlds. In One Footprint. With Honest Expectations.
The Sheet Side
The HYBRIX™ cuts 5' x 10' sheet metal with the same precision, speed, and quality as a dedicated AURIX™ sheet laser. Same resonator. Same fiber. Same Boci cutting head. Same nesting software. The sheet side of the HYBRIX™ is not a compromise — it is a full-production sheet laser.
The Tube Side
The tube function extends the gantry approximately three feet and uses the same sheet laser cutting head to cut tube. This gives you full capability on closed profiles: square tube, round pipe, rectangular tube, and oval. Up to twenty-four-foot sticks. Up to three-eighths-inch thick.
Holes, slots, notches, miters — all programmed, all cut in one pass. Your cold saw and drill press sit idle. Your jigs collect dust. Parts come off the machine fitting together like Lego.
What You Need to Know: Closed Shapes Only
We're going to be straight with you because that's how we operate. The HYBRIX™ uses a stubby sheet-laser head for tube cutting. That head gets close to the material but it cannot enter the crevices of an I-beam or angle iron the way a dedicated tube laser's long snout can. The HYBRIX™ cuts closed shapes: square, round, rectangular, oval. If your work is primarily I-beam, C-channel, or open structural profiles, you need a dedicated TORIX™ tube laser.
But if your tube work is closed profiles — and for most fabrication shops doing framing, railing, box work, furniture, or general structural, it is — the HYBRIX™ gives you that capability without buying a second machine.
About 5% of shops have a tube laser at all. With a HYBRIX™, you'd be competing at a level most of your market can't touch.
Choose the Format That Fits Your Shop. We'll Make Sure the Machine Fits Your Business.
Single Bed, Maximum Value
The HYBRIX™ Open is the most economical way to enter the laser business. Period. An open-table, single-bed combo laser that gives you 5' x 10' sheet cutting and tube cutting up to twenty-four feet in closed profiles — all in one machine, all running on single-phase power at 3kW.
At 3kW on single-phase, you cut up to three-eighths-inch carbon steel on both the sheet side and the tube side. That covers the bread and butter of most small to mid-size fabrication operations. When you're ready for more power, the 6kW and 12kW versions are available with three-phase service.
The cost of this machine is less than the cost of labor. A lease-to-own payment works out to roughly the hourly rate of one employee — except the machine doesn't call in sick, doesn't take holidays, and gives you both sheet and tube capability in a single footprint.
Dual Bed, Production Ready
The HYBRIX™ Enclosed is for shops that have several employees, production volume, and a plan to grow. The enclosed cabinet with dual beds means one bed is cutting while you're loading the other. You never stop production to swap material. The enclosure keeps smoke contained, exhaust managed, and your OSHA exposure at zero.
Same 5' x 10' sheet bed. Same tube function cutting closed profiles up to twenty-four feet. Available in 3kW, 6kW, and 12kW. If you're running a shop with people in it, this is the format. When you have employees, there's a lawyers billboard on the highway that says "Have you been injured at work?" and you don't want to be the shop it's talking about.
Think of the enclosed dual-bed HYBRIX™ as future-proofing your shop. You have compliant technology, continuous production, sheet and tube in one machine, and something that adds to your enterprise value — not a compliance risk you have to explain away.
The 80/20 Rule: You're Already Buying Most of a Tube Laser.
When you buy a laser — any laser — you're buying a resonator, a fiber optic cable, a cutting head, and electronics. That's eighty percent of the cost regardless of whether it's sheet-only or combo. The HYBRIX™ adds approximately three feet to the gantry and gives you the tube function. You're not doubling your investment. You're adding a fraction of the cost for a completely new capability.
Think about that: for a small increment over a sheet-only laser, you get a machine that also cuts tube. Your competitors who bought a standalone sheet laser are paying fabrication shops to cut their tube work. You're doing it in-house.
When the HYBRIX™ Is the Right Call
- →Your tube work is primarily closed profiles — square, round, rectangular, oval
- →You do framing, railing, box work, table work, furniture, signs, or general structural fabrication
- →You have one budget, not two
- →You have limited floor space and can't accommodate two separate machines
- →You want to bring tube cutting in-house without a massive capital outlay
- →You're entering the laser business for the first time and want both capabilities from day one
When You Need Dedicated Machines Instead
- —Your primary work is I-beam, C-channel, angle iron, or other open structural profiles
- —You need bevel capability on tube — the combo does not bevel
- —Your tube volume is high enough to justify a dedicated TORIX™ running full-time
- —You need the long-snout head to reach into structural crevices
We'll tell you during our engineering conversation which path makes sense. If dedicated machines are the right answer, we'll say so. We'd rather sell you the right thing than sell you a combo that doesn't fit your work.
What Makes a HYBRIX™ Different
An Engineer. Not a Tech.
We send engineers who ran fabrication businesses, production, and have serious exposure to best practices. They don't just install the machine — they help you design how you build your products for the combo laser. On both the sheet side and the tube side. Seventeen parts become five. Four sides of welding become three. Jigs disappear. Profit starts to pour in.
We don't leave until you are producing. Not demonstrating. Producing.
No Service Contracts. By Design.
The goal is that you know this machine so well you don't need a service contract. That's why we invest more in installation. You pay more upfront for independence. You don't pay forever for dependency.
A Year of Consumables. Included.
50 protection lenses, 6 ceramic nozzles, 24 standard nozzles, 2 complete focal and collimating lens sets. Enough to run a year. The same consumables package covers both sheet and tube cutting because it's the same cutting head doing both jobs.
Software Included. No Subscription. Forever.
Fully featured nesting and CAM software for both sheet and tube — machine-side and desktop, permanently licensed. Plus ShopFlow IQ™ and Off-Cut IQ™ for job tracking and material management. All either included or available. All set up by the engineer during installation.
Built to Twice the Weight.
Annealed, heat-treated frame machined in-house. Double the physical weight of many competitors. UL-listed Schneider electronics. Max fiber resonator. Boci cutting head. Brand name chuck systems designed in-house, fabricated to our North American specifications.
The Most Economical Way to Enter the Laser Business. Because the Cost Is Less Than Labor.
On a lease-to-own, a HYBRIX™ combo laser costs you roughly the hourly rate of one employee on a standard work month. Except you're not getting one employee's worth of output. You're getting a machine that cuts sheet AND tube, runs both sides from the same resonator, and doesn't come with health benefits, sick days, or turnover.
If you're already outsourcing laser work — sheet or tube — the processing cost you're paying someone else nearly covers the lease payment. That's not a cost. That's a reallocation. You bring it in-house, you control the timeline, and the machine pays for itself out of what you were already spending.
Every payment is one hundred percent tax deductible. Section 179 lets you write off the full purchase price in the year you take delivery. Our in-house leasing approves you in forty-eight hours. A bank takes six to eight weeks and wants your house as collateral.
One machine. One payment. Two capabilities. At the cost of less than one employee you'd have to train, manage, insure, and replace when they leave.
Real Shops. Real Results.
Spider Industries — Wenatchee, Washington
Josh makes headache racks for pickup trucks. Old method: seventeen pieces, cut manually, drilled by hand, stuck into jigs. New method after our engineer restructured his designs: five pieces. Fold it. Three sides of welding. No jig. Cutting capacity went four times. One day equals one to two weeks of previous output. His welders aren't losing jobs — they're welding four hundred racks a month instead of one hundred.
Gary the Sign Maker
Never touched a laser. Needed a hundred signs with slots cut in square tubing. Finished the entire job solo in three shifts. No fabrication background. No helper. The training model works even for complete novices.
If Gary can do it, your shop can do it.
The Etsy Opportunity
One of our customers found a Tree of Life wall piece on Etsy — stainless steel, forty-eight inches in diameter. Paid eleven hundred dollars. The steel cost maybe a hundred and fifty. That's real margin from a laser and creativity. With a HYBRIX™, you have both sheet cutting for decorative art pieces and tube cutting for structural frames and stands. A Saturday of cutting, a few pieces listed online, and the monthly lease payment is covered before you ever touch a production job.
The machine that you were worried about affording pays for itself in side income.
"The system is very easy to understand and use — within an hour or two, we had a solid base and were up and running."
"Val went above and beyond — not just the machine, but helping us with SolidWorks and getting parts ready so we could actually start producing."
Not Trumpf. Not Bodor. Not a Toy.
If you're comparing us to a big-name combo:
You're paying for their trade show and their service contract ecosystem. The same combo that costs double or triple from a legacy brand delivers the same cut quality we deliver. And when the head gets discontinued in seven years, you're stuck. Our parts are available. They don't get discontinued.
If you're comparing us to a low-cost import:
We're an industrial-class machine. Twice the weight of Bodor. UL-listed components throughout. Chucks built in-house. Not a drawer-style hobby laser. Not the same category.
If you're considering a used laser:
First one drives it, second one pays for it, third one repairs it. A new HYBRIX™ with a two-year warranty, an engineer-led installation, and mission-critical spares in North America is a completely different risk profile. The numbers are closer than you think.
You Don't Get the Keys to the Airplane Until You Qualify as Co-Pilot.
A plasma is a go-kart and a chainsaw. A laser is an airplane with a glass cockpit. The HYBRIX™ is an airplane that also has a helicopter function. You need to understand both. Our engineer trains you on the sheet side and the tube side — the parameters, the nesting, the gas, the optics, the maintenance. You do it our way.
When the engineer leaves, you get a complete SOP for both sheet and tube operations. If you bring someone new on, the template is there. And if you have a son or daughter who's going to work in this business, they need to be there for the full installation.
You pay more upfront for competence. You never pay again for dependency.
Let's Find Out If Combo Is the Right Call for Your Operation.
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