Brands of Cutting Torches

Smith Equipment

• This company, founded in Minneapolis, has been manufacturing cutting and welding torches since 1916. Currently located in Watertown, South Dakota, the company sells a wide range of cutting torches, welding torch tips, gas mixers, regulators and other accessories. The company has the reputation among welders as creating high-quality products. The company's products can be bought through its website or at many welding supply stores. Prices for a cutting torch set can range from $400 to $600 or more, at the time of publication.

Victor Gas Equipment

• Victor has been making cutting and welding torches since 1913. The company, currently headquartered in Denton, Texas, sells cutting torches, welding torches, regulators, mixers and cutting tips for all sorts of uses, for both home welding needs to heavy duty industrial applications. Victor Equipment sells its brands through welding suppliers scattered throughout the United States. At the time of publication, a typical cutting torch set can cost between $300 and $500 or more.

Harris Products

• Harris Products' range of cutting torches is generally less expensive than those sold by Smith or Victor, but these torches are widely sold and available at general hardware stores like Home Depot. Harris Products has been in the welding business since the original company's founder developed the Oxygen-acetylene torch in 1899. It sells a full range of light duty and industrial cutting torches and accessories. Cutting torch sets can cost as little as $350, at the time of publication, and are sold through distributors across the U.S.

Northern Tools

• Northern Tools doesn't just specialize in cutting and welding torches. The company also manufactures an enormous selection of construction and home maintenance products. Because of this, the cutting torches could be considered lower quality than those of more specialized manufacturers. A Northern Tools Cutting set can cost as little as $150 dollars at the time of publication, and include various torches and tips. The company sells through its website and by way of various third-party vendors.

Miller Electric

• Miller Products, founded in 1929 and based out of Northern Wisconsin, manufactures and sells arc cutting torches and welders. Unlike Oxygen-fuel cutting torches, these devices use electricity to superheat air until it forms into plasma, which leaves the torch nozzle at temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees F. Plasma cutting torches are particularly useful for metals such as stainless steel and aluminum, which warp excessively when cut by oxy-fuel torches. Miller Products is the largest manufacturer of electric cutting equipment in the U.S. and sells plasma torches and their accessories through its authorized vendors.