Apparatus for cutting a thermoplastic pipe, including: guide for movement along a direction; a unit mobile along the guide; a first actuator for moving the mobile unit along the guide, the mobile unit including a rotation unit to rotate about a thermoplastic; a second actuator for rotating the rotation unit; a locking unit with gripping elements interacting with the pipe and movable between open and closed configurations, the gripping elements and rotation unit coupled to allow, in the closed configuration, longitudinally blocking the rotation unit to the pipe along the direction; a cutting tool, carried by the rotation unit, for cutting the pipe and configured to move radially to the pipe; a third actuator, carried by the rotation unit to move the cutting tool radially to the pipe; a compression device acting on a cut edge of the pipe; a heater for heating the compression device.

The disclosure relates to a method for slicing food products using a slicing machine, including: arranging at least one product calibre on a feeding unit of the slicing machine, feeding, by the feeding unit, the at least one product calibre along a feeding direction to a cutting device of the slicing machine, and slicing, by the cutting device, the at least one product calibre into slices to form portions. Each portion comprises one or more slices, with the at least one product calibre being sliced at least in sections with a preset slice thickness, but at most up to a preset end-piece length. Immediately before the end of slicing the product calibre, one or more final slices are sliced with a reduced slice thickness or an enlarged slice thickness, with the reduced slice thickness and/or the enlarged slice thickness being determined, in particular by a control unit of the slicing machine, in such a way that the at least one product calibre is sliced essentially, preferably exactly, up to the preset end-piece length.

An apparatus for the orbital cutting and calibration of tubes is provided. The apparatus has a rotor having a central hole through which a tube to be cut is movable along its longitudinal axis, the rotor being drivable to rotate about a first axis of rotation coinciding in use with the longitudinal axis of the tube that is supplied to the apparatus. The apparatus has a cutting device having a first support body mounted radially movable on the rotor and a cutting tool carried by the first support body, and a calibration device having a second support body mounted to be radially movable on the rotor and a calibration tool carried by the second support body.

Described is an apparatus for processing a pipe made of thermoplastic material; each pipe extends along a longitudinal axis and has a first end and a second end; the apparatus comprises an element for chamfering a portion of the first end of the pipe the element comprising at least one processing tool having a respective processing surface; heating means associated with the processing tool are configured for heating the processing surface of the processing tool to a predetermined temperature.