The TORIX™ Series by PB Lasers is the tube laser built for North American fabricators who are done measuring, marking, and hoping the cut is square. From single-phase entry-level to 60-foot industrial production — there's a TORIX™ for the way you actually work.
Every Part You Cold-Saw, Drill, and Grind by Hand Is a Part Your Competitor Cuts in Seconds.
You're cutting tube with a cold saw. Or a bandsaw. Or you're outsourcing it and waiting weeks. Either way, every hole is drilled by hand. Every miter is measured manually. Every cope is ground to fit. And you're praying the guy running the saw isn't off by a degree — because if he is, the welder has to compensate everywhere downstream.
You're paying skilled labor to do grunt work. The welder isn't welding — he's grinding. The fitter isn't fitting — he's fighting parts that don't line up. Every jig you build takes time. Every assembly you rework takes margin.
A tube laser doesn't just cut tube faster. It eliminates everything that happens between the cut and the weld.
Holes, slots, miters, copes, notches, tabs — all programmed, all cut in one pass, all fitting together like Lego when they come off the machine. No jig. No drill press. No grinder. No prayer.
Maybe one in thirty shops in North America has a tube laser right now. If you're reading this page, you're thinking about becoming one of them. The question is whether you do it before your competitor across the street does.
Because when they do, they can make and sell parts cheaper than you can make them. That's not a threat. That's math.
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. A tube laser that competitors sell for one-point-four million dollars? We're at a fraction of that. No difference in cut quality. No gimmick features. Everything designed for production. Just the work.
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. When you know your machine, you make money with it. When you don't, you call us forty-three times in ninety days. That's bad for both of us.
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.
It's Not a Faster Saw. It's the End of the Saw.
A tube laser doesn't replace your bandsaw the way a faster car replaces a slower car. It replaces your bandsaw, your drill press, your grinder, your layout table, your jigs, and half the labor hours between the raw material and the finished weld.
The TORIX™ Series accepts round, square, rectangular, and oval tube — plus angle iron, C-channel, and I-beam on the dedicated production models. The machine cuts holes, slots, notches, miters, copes, and tabs in a single pass. Every cut is programmed. Every part is identical. Every joint fits the first time.
One of our customers was building headache racks for pickup trucks. Old method: seventeen individual pieces, cut manually, drilled by hand, stuck into jigs, four sides of welding. New method after our engineer restructured his designs for the TORIX™: five pieces. Fold it. Three sides of welding. No jig. Parts snap together like Lego. His cutting capacity went four times. One day on the tube laser equals one to two weeks of what they were doing before.
The tube laser doesn't just speed up your process. It redesigns your process. Fewer parts. Fewer welds. Fewer people. More output.
What Happens Next: The Welding Bottleneck
Here's what will happen when you have a TORIX™ running: you're going to produce more parts in a shorter period of time than you ever have in your life. That's the good news. The bad news is you're going to have a welding problem. Your cut output goes up dramatically. Welding becomes the constraint.
That's why we send an engineer instead of a tech — for selfish reasons. We want you to call us in twelve months and say: talk to me about a robotic welder. We'd rather earn that call than try to make margin off overpriced optics.
Every Inch of Material You Waste Is Money in the Dumpster.
On a traditional tube laser, the cutting head can't reach all the way to the chuck that's gripping the material. That leaves a "tail" at the end of every stick — sometimes six inches or more of usable material that gets thrown away because the machine physically can't cut it.
Three Tiers. Built for Where You Actually Are.
TORIX™ CORE — Entry-Level Single-Phase Tube Laser
This is not a toy. It's an industrial tube laser scaled to the reality of how smaller American businesses actually operate. Affordable semi-auto and auto-load options are available so you're not wrestling twenty-foot sticks by hand all day.
The TORIX™ CORE was designed to do one thing: bring tube laser capability to the shops that the big brands have ignored because they can't sell a million-dollar machine to a business with 200-amp service.
- Power
- 2kW fiber laser
- Max Profile
- 4.5" × 4.5" (round, square, rectangular, oval)
- Max Cut Thickness
- 1/4" carbon steel
- Footprint
- ~4' wide × 25' long — wall-mountable, front-loading
- Operator Position
- Left side or right side — configurable to your shop layout
- Power Requirement
- Single-phase 200 amps — no three-phase required
- Loading Options
- Manual, semi-auto, or auto-load available
- Designed For
- Small fab shops, farm operations, sign makers, repair businesses, job shops, artistic fabricators, single-operator businesses
TORIX™ EDGE Series — Industrial Production Tube Lasers
The TORIX™ EDGE Series is the production workhorse. These are full-size Zero-Tailing Tube Lasers (ZTL) that accept up to twenty-four-foot stock and handle profiles up to ten inches in diameter. Available in 3kW and 6kW, with chuck options ranging from 4.5 inches to 7 inches to 10 inches.
The footprint runs approximately seven to twelve feet wide by thirty-two feet long — sized to accommodate full twenty-four-foot sticks in an L-shape or hockey-stick configuration in your shop. Auto-loading and semi-unloading are available for high-volume, repetitive runs where you need the machine working while the operator is doing something else.
The TORIX™ EDGE is where you step into serious tube production. The dedicated long-snout cutting head gets into the crevices of I-beams, angle iron, and open structural profiles that a combo laser physically cannot reach. It bevels. It copes. It miters. And with Zero-Tailing Technology, it squeezes every usable inch out of every stick.
This is the machine that turns a fabrication shop into a production operation.
- Power Options
- 3kW and 6kW fiber laser
- Max Stock Input
- 24-foot sticks
- Max Profile Diameter
- Up to 10" (chuck dependent)
- Chuck Options
- 4.5" to 7", up to 10"
- Footprint
- ~7'–12' wide × 32' long
- Profile Capability
- Round, square, rectangular, oval, C-channel, angle iron, I-beam
- Zero-Tailing
- Yes — ~1–2" tail waste per stick
- Loading Options
- Manual, semi-auto, auto-load, and semi-unload available
- Bevel Capability
- Yes — 5th-axis bevel cutting
- Designed For
- Production fabrication shops, structural steel, job shops, trailer/ag manufacturers, handrail and railing companies
TORIX™ EXTREME Series — Heavy Structural and Industrial Scale
When the work is too heavy for a two-chuck machine, the TORIX™ EXTREME takes over. These are three-chuck tube lasers that handle profiles from ten inches all the way up to twenty-five and five-eighths inches in diameter. Available in input and output lengths of six meters, twelve meters, and eighteen meters — approximately twenty, forty, and sixty feet — or any combination of input and output length that fits your operation.
Power ranges from 12kW to 20kW. Auto-loading and auto-unloading are standard territory at this level. The third chuck supports the weight and inertia of heavy structural material through the entire cut cycle — because when you're processing 24-inch I-beams or heavy-wall pipe, two chucks can't hold it steady enough for precision.
The TORIX™ EXTREME exists for one reason: when the structural steel is too big, too heavy, and too critical for anything less.
- Power Range
- 12kW to 20kW fiber laser
- Chuck Configuration
- 3-chuck system for heavy structural support
- Max Profile Diameter
- Up to 25-5/8"
- Input/Output Lengths
- 6m (~20'), 12m (~40'), 18m (~60') — any combination
- Profile Capability
- I-beam, H-beam, C-channel, angle, heavy pipe, large structural sections
- Loading/Unloading
- Auto-load and auto-unload
- Bevel Capability
- Yes — full bevel on structural profiles
- Designed For
- Steel service centers, heavy structural fabricators, bridge and infrastructure, large-scale manufacturing, industrial pipe processing
TORIX™ Series at a Glance
| TORIX™ CORE | TORIX™ EDGE ZTL | TORIX™ EXTREME | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 2kW | 3kW / 6kW | 12kW – 20kW |
| Max Diameter | 4.5" | Up to 10" | Up to 25-5/8" |
| Stock Length | Front-load | 24' sticks | 20' / 40' / 60' |
| Chucks | 2-chuck | 2-chuck | 3-chuck |
| Zero-Tailing | — | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-Load | Available | Available | Standard |
| Power Req. | Single-phase 200A | Three-phase | Three-phase |
| Footprint | ~4' × 25' | ~7–12' × 32' | Custom to length config |
| Open Profiles | Closed only | I-beam, C-channel, angle | Full structural range |
- Power
- 2kW
- Max Diameter
- 4.5"
- Stock Length
- Front-load
- Chucks
- 2-chuck
- Zero-Tailing
- —
- Auto-Load
- Available
- Power Req.
- Single-phase 200A
- Footprint
- ~4' × 25'
- Open Profiles
- Closed only
- Power
- 3kW / 6kW
- Max Diameter
- Up to 10"
- Stock Length
- 24' sticks
- Chucks
- 2-chuck
- Zero-Tailing
- Yes
- Auto-Load
- Available
- Power Req.
- Three-phase
- Footprint
- ~7–12' × 32'
- Open Profiles
- I-beam, C-channel, angle
- Power
- 12kW – 20kW
- Max Diameter
- Up to 25-5/8"
- Stock Length
- 20' / 40' / 60'
- Chucks
- 3-chuck
- Zero-Tailing
- Yes
- Auto-Load
- Standard
- Power Req.
- Three-phase
- Footprint
- Custom to length config
- Open Profiles
- Full structural range
What makes an TORIX™ different.
Every other manufacturer sends a technician who shows up, makes two cuts, and hauls ass to the airport. Sharing everything is counterproductive to him making a living on the next service call.
We send an engineer who has run fabrication operations and led processes in the field. When you ask "can the TORIX™ do this," he tells you yes, here's how, here's the risk, here's what it saves. Then you make the decision.
We don't leave until you are producing. Not demonstrating. Producing.
In two years, you'd be mad at us if you paid for a service contract and realized you could have bought a new truck. The goal is that you know this machine so well you don't need a service contract. You pay more upfront for independence. You don't pay forever for dependency.
Every TORIX™ ships with a full first-year consumables package — protection lenses, ceramic and standard nozzles, focal and collimating lens sets. Enough to run a year without blinking. We won't rake you over the coals on optics two years from now and we won't discontinue your cutting head to force a new purchase.
Fully featured nesting and CAM software comes with every TORIX™. Machine-side and desktop nesting, both permanently licensed. No monthly fee. No annual renewal. No subscription attached to your production output.
The TORIX™ frame is annealed, heat-treated, and machined in-house — literally double the weight of many import competitors in the same category. UL-listed Schneider electronics throughout. Max fiber resonator. Boci cutting head. Parts available, not sealed into a proprietary contraption that forces a new head purchase.
ShopFlow IQ™ tracks jobs from PO to delivery. Off-Cut IQ™ tracks every remnant — measured, labeled, racked, searchable. Our engineer sets them up during your installation. No separate subscription.
Before You Hire Another Person, Do This Math.
On a lease-to-own, a TORIX™ tube laser costs you roughly twenty-one to twenty-eight dollars an hour on a standard work month. What do you pay the guy running the cold saw, drilling holes, and grinding miters? Twenty-five, thirty, forty dollars an hour? And he still can't produce what this machine produces in a single shift.
The machine doesn't call in sick. It doesn't need health benefits. It doesn't show up hungover and throw off every downstream weld. Every payment is one hundred percent tax deductible. Section 179 lets you write off the full purchase price in the year you take delivery.
If you're already outsourcing tube cutting and waiting four to five weeks for parts, you almost have a free tube laser. 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.
A leasing company approves you in forty-eight hours. A bank takes six to eight weeks and wants your house as collateral. There's a reason smart fabricators lease.
Proof.
Spider Industries — Wenatchee, Washington
Josh makes headache racks for pickup trucks and railings. Old method: seventeen individual pieces, cut manually, drilled by hand. Pray the guy cutting isn't off a degree. The whole rack went into a jig. Four sides of welding. New method after our engineer restructured his designs for the tube laser: five pieces. Fold it. Three sides of welding. No jig. One day on the laser equals one to two weeks of previous output. His welders called a meeting — they were scared they'd lose their jobs. The engineer told them: you're not losing your jobs. You're welding four hundred racks a month instead of one hundred.
Josh bought the machine sight unseen.
Gary the Sign Maker — First-Time Solo Operator
Gary makes roadside signs. He'd never touched a laser in his life. He needed a hundred signs cut with slots in square tubing so sign panels could slide in from the side. We gave him one window. He finished the job by himself in three shifts. No fabrication background. No helper.
If Gary can do it, your shop can do it.
The Structural Nightmare — The Only Messer in America
One of our prospects has the only Messer structural plasma and flame cutting table in the United States. Three exist in the world. The machine is three to four years old. Four different technicians have been sent to service it. None of the four had ever seen the machine's control system before. Remote server updates wipe all cutting parameters. The company has been down for months. Their previous Messer caught fire.
If only three people in the world have seen your machine, you're not buying equipment. You're buying a dependency.
The Legacy Brand Horror Stories
A farmer in Illinois with a Trumpf CO2 — down eighteen months. A quarter million dollars in parts and service. The problem was a mirror. They sent three techs who'd never seen the machine. The fourth one found it in two days.
A fabricator with an HSG laser — down four months out of twelve. The head got ripped off the gantry. Over a hundred thousand dollars lost in one outage. Twelve thousand dollars to rebuild a head that had an O-ring failure. The O-ring cost a dollar fifty.
An enterprise manufacturer spending a hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year on crashed heads — at twenty-six thousand dollars each — from a legacy brand that charges fifty-six thousand dollars just to upgrade from 5kW to 6kW.
These aren't hypothetical. These are phone calls we take every week.
Not BLM. Not Bodor. Not Even Close to Either.
If you're comparing us to a big-name legacy brand:
You're paying for their trade show budget and their C-suite — not a better cut. The million-dollar tube lasers don't out-produce a TORIX™ EDGE on the work most fabricators actually run. We deliver the same cut quality at a fraction of the price. No gimmicks. Just the work.
If you're comparing us to a low-cost import:
Different category. Lighter build, assembled from mixed suppliers, no real engineering to North American spec, no parts support when you need it on a Tuesday. We're nearly double the physical weight. UL-listed components. Chucks built in-house. Not in the same tier.
If you're considering a used tube laser:
The first one drives it. The second one pays for it. The third one repairs it. A used tube laser sold from one shop to the next usually shows up with an unknown service history, no consumables, no software license, and no engineer behind it. New TORIX™ costs less than most people expect and comes with a clean slate.
You Don't Get the Keys to the Airplane Until You Qualify as Co-Pilot.
A plasma cutter is a go-kart and a chainsaw. A tube laser is an airplane with a glass cockpit. You have to understand focus depth, gas combination, beam alignment, power ramping, nozzle selection, and bevel compensation.
It's not scary if you know what you're doing. And when our engineer leaves your shop, you will know what you're doing.
We train Full Metal Jacket style. You do it our way. We teach you how to get to every parameter yourself — not just hand you a sheet of numbers without context. Because the first time something is different about your material, your gas, your ambient temperature, you need to understand why you're adjusting what you're adjusting.
Bring your son or daughter to installation. Bring the kid who's been running the bandsaw. Bring whoever is going to operate this machine in three years. Our engineer trains the people who will actually run it — not just the owner who signed the check.
When the engineer leaves, you get a complete standard operating procedure — a training document — so if you ever bring someone new on, you have a template. You're not playing broken telephone.
You pay more upfront for competence. You never pay again for dependency.
Our mission is to bring productivity back to North American manufacturing.
Every tube laser we sell is a step in that direction.