PROFILE

At a TWI event in July, Dr Paul Hilton, technology fellow for laser materials processing at the welding institute, gave his personal highlights of 50 years of TWI laser processing. Greg Blackman was there to listen to the presentation

Edmund Optics has traditionally served the scientific markets, but now the optics provider is expanding into materials processing. Tom Eddershaw spoke to the company at Laser World of Photonics in Munich, Germany in June

Tim Gillett discovers how French laser company Quantel has survived and thrived since its formation in 1970