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Laser Cutting - Page 50
- From The Welder
Multiaxis laser workcell quickly processes even highly reflective materials
- Jul 22, 2016
- Product Release
IPG Photonics Corp.’s multiaxis laser workcell welds and cuts most metal components, enclosures, and fabrications. Configurable with high-efficiency CW lasers or high-peak-power QCW lasers, the workcell provides fast processing of even highly reflective materials, the company says. Available...
- From The Fabricator
Mazak Optonics partners with Fox Machinery Associates
- Jul 19, 2016
- News Release
Elgin, Ill.-based Mazak Optonics Corp. has partnered with Fox Machinery Associates as its distributor based in Bridgeport, Pa. Fox Machinery Associates serves manufacturers and job shops in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia focusing on Mazak’s line of laser...
- From The Fabricator
Penn United adds laser cutting capabilities
- Jul 13, 2016
- News Release
Cabot, Pa.-based Penn United has added an Amada FLCAJ 3015 fiber laser to its capabilities. The laser system has a 2,000-W fiber engine, the capacity to hold 60-in. by 120-in. sheets, and cuts up to four times faster than conventional CO2 lasers, the company states. The system also features an...
- From The Fabricator
Coil-fed fabricating
Most manufacturers associate coil processing with the metal forming industry. They also likely assume the punching and laser cutting combination machines consume sheet metal. Elleci S.p.A., a metal fabricator in northern Italy, has a new line in place that will require many manufacturers to alter their preconceived notions about coil consumption in a fabricating facility.
- From The Welder
Rofin expands fiber laser production capacities
- Jul 7, 2016
- News Release
Rofin has expanded its fiber laser production by adding an assembly line at its factory in Hamburg, Germany. The expansion allows the company to meet increasing demand for low-power fiber lasers. The new assembly line is designed specifically for the production of compact fiber lasers with one...
- From The Fabricator
A ticket of entry to laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Jul 5, 2016
- Article
Alkras has introduced a laser small enough to fit on the gantry of a cutting table. It’s being marketed as a ticket of entry for those fab shops—especially small ones—that have not yet entered the laser cutting arena.
- From The Fabricator
MC Machinery Systems/Mitsubishi Laser holds groundbreaking ceremony
- Jul 1, 2016
- News Release
Machine tool manufacturer hopes to occupy new headquarters late in 2016.
- From The Fabricator
Hypertherm’s 2015 CSR report shows progress toward 2020 goals
- Jun 30, 2016
- News Release
Hypertherm, a Hanover, N.H.-based manufacturer of plasma, laser, and waterjet cutting systems, has issued its annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, measuring 2015 progress on the company’s social and environmental goals. The report, available at www.hypertherm.com/csr, shows...
- From The Fabricator
Cutting to the chase on gas delivery for CO2 lasers
- By John Karpus
- Jun 29, 2016
- Article
A working knowledge of the ways in which purity, pressure, and flow affect how lasers use gases is key to setting up a gas delivery system that both works correctly and is cost-effective.
- From The Fabricator
3 questions to ask for better laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 28, 2016
- Article
Brent Donner, president of DLC Manufacturing and Fabrication, has spent almost a decade as a laser cutting consultant. Over that time he has noticed several fundamentals that many operators miss: properly cleaning and polishing the optics, centering the nozzle, and calibrating the beam focus.
- From The Fabricator
LIA names 2016 Schawlow Award winner
- Jun 24, 2016
- News Release
Laser Institute of America (LIA), Orlando, Fla., has announced that LIA Fellow, 2014 LIA President, and 2016 ICALEO® Nanomanufacturing Conference Chair Dr. Yongfeng Lu has been selected as the 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Award recipient in recognition of his longstanding record of laser industry...
- From The Fabricator
Laser machine switches from sheet to tube processing
- Jun 23, 2016
- Product Release
The LC5 from BLM Group USA is a compact laser machine with automatic loading/unloading that can process both tube and flat sheet. It can be equipped with either a CO2 laser source with power up to 4.5 kW or a fiber laser source with power up to 5 kW. The machine can handle tube up to 334 in....
- From The Fabricator
Laser power meter measures high-power lasers
- Jun 16, 2016
- Product Release
Ophir Photonics Group has introduced the Helios compact laser power meter for measuring solid-state lasers such as diode, fiber, and Nd:YAG with powers from 100 W to 12 kW and energies from 10 J to 10 kJ in industrial processing applications. The power meter includes PC software and...
- From The Fabricator
Hypertherm establishes new website, tagline
- Jun 10, 2016
- News Release
Hypertherm, a Hanover, N.H.-based manufacturer of plasma, laser, and waterjet cutting systems, has launched a new website at www.hypertherm.com. Visitors can compare different cutting technologies and platforms, troubleshoot cutting challenges, and connect with the company’s experts around the...
- From The Fabricator
Bystronic to introduce new fiber laser at open house June 15-16
- Jun 7, 2016
- News Release
Bystronic Inc. will introduce the new ByStar Fiber laser cutting machine with Fiber 6000 laser source to the North American market at its open house, June 15-16, 2016, in Elgin, Ill. The laser is designed for users that want to cut their entire range of orders on the fiber laser, from stainless...
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