Schuler delivers laser blanking line to SET Enterprises

Schuler Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., has delivered a laser blanking line to SET Enterprises, Chicago, a supplier of blanks and slit multiples to the automotive industry. According to Schuler, this is the first high-output system of its kind used in North America.

SET will use the laser blanking line, with its combined laser power of 12 kW, to produce blanks for exposed and unexposed automotive stampings beginning in 2019. The machine features three laser heads with the ability to simultaneously cut blank shapes of all types with straight line cutting speeds of more than 328 FPM from a coil-fed, continuously forward-moving strip of coiled metal, itself traveling at speeds up to 196 FPM.