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2. Other cutting methods
There are many glass-cutting techniques other than wheel cutting, which are at different stages of development or industrialization: saw or abrasive wheel cutting, waterjet cutting, laser cutting, ultrasonic cutting... Among these constantly evolving techniques, we have chosen to give only an overview of laser cutting and waterjet cutting in this section. Readers are referred to other documents if they wish to deepen their knowledge of these techniques (cf. ).
2.1 Laser cutting
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This list is not exhaustive. Readers will find the characteristics of the cutting methods on the corresponding websites, or in the patents published by the various companies mentioned.
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