Engineering firm invests €5m in laser tech over five years to boost production
€5 million investment in the last five years reduces Dromone Engineering's unit production costs
€5 million investment in the last five years reduces Dromone Engineering's unit production costs
Panasonic fibre lasers fulfil the requirements for the new generation of laser welding systems, revolutionising the welding of plastic components
Panasonic has acquired US high brightness direct diode laser maker Teradiode for an undisclosed sum
Greg Blackman investigates the advances being made in direct diode lasers and asks whether these systems can compete with fibre lasers
Sanin Zulic and Sunil Pathak share how laser shock peening can be used to improve residual stresses in additively manufactured parts
Mark Zediker, Jean-Michel Pelaprat and Andrew Dodd share how early results are already demonstrating the advantages of blue lasers in additive manufacturing
Alexandre Rondepierre and Olivier Casagrande demonstrate a new approach that overcomes existing laser shock peening challenges
An brief look at laser cutting and some of the technology developments made in recent years
Richard Stähr and his colleagues are using laser drilling to produce perforated acoustic liners for insulating aircraft noise
Oliver Haupt and Jan Brune describe how deep-UV excimer lasers can overcome microLED display manufacturing challenges
Matthew Dale learns how additive manufacturing is optimising the production of rocket components
Frederic Schell and Christoph Zwahr describe how direct laser interference patterning can augment additively manufactured medical implants