With the successor model Photonic Professional GT2, Nanoscribe, the world's leading manufacturer of 3D printers for microfabrication, offers new solutions for additive manufacturing and maskless lithography. Thanks to optimized hardware and software components as well as IP-Q printing material especially developed for larger volumes, high-resolution microstructures up to a height of 8 mm can now be produced for the first time.

II‐VI has introduced its HIGHmotion 2D advanced remote processing head for battery laser welding

II‐VI has announced the introduction of its next-generation 12 kW BIMO-FSC laser cutting head with extended materials processing capabilities

Spectrum Technologies has introduced its latest laser-based wire marking and stripping systems

LSS Laser-Sinter-Service introduced its new RAPTOR series of 3D printers at Formnext this year

Posalux SA has introduced a newly designed machine for electronics fabrication that employs SCANLAB GmbH’s highly integrated precSYS 5-axis scan sub-system

Synova has introduced a new laser machining centre, the LCS 305, which has full five-axis capability in processing complex 3D geometries with exceptional accuracy and speed

II‐VI Incorporated has unveiled its DirectProcess 900 direct diode laser engine with active rectangular-beam shaping for micro materials processing

The Corona CFX-5000 is an all-fibre laser with programmable beam characteristics that bring together the speed and cost advantages of traditional fibre lasers with the superior thick metal edge quality of CO2 lasers

The flexible laser system is available in two power levels of 200W and 500W and is optimised for manual use or for integration with a robot