Product backlog and long shipping times

As shared earlier this month, Hypertherm is experiencing longer than normal lead times for most plasma systems. Despite our successful management of lead times for all of 2020, several pandemic related issues combined with strong demand has led to a significant backlog.

We are doing everything we can to manufacture and get systems to you as quickly as possible. This includes aggressively expanding our supply base to ensure we have the parts we need to quickly manufacture systems. We are also increasing forecasts with existing suppliers, sourcing new suppliers, and adding manufacturing capacity. Unfortunately, these actions are going to take time as most of our suppliers are experiencing the same staffing challenges and material shortages that we are. At this point, we do not expect lead times to stabilize until the second quarter of the year.

As of today, estimated lead times from our United States distribution facility are as follows.

Powermax30 XP and Powermax30 AIR – 4 weeks
Powermax105 and Powermax125 – 8 weeks
Powermax45 XP, Powermax65, Powermax85 – 10 weeks
HPR and XPR – 12 to 14 weeks
MAXPRO200 – 13 weeks
Parts, torches, and consumables – 1 week