Cailabs develops welding head for high power ring beam shaping
4 March 2021
The new CANUNDA-HP laser welding head is suitable for submillimetre ring beam shaping at powers up to 16 kW
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MKS Instruments announces new industrial power meter for blue, green and infrared lasers up to 12kW
20 January 2021
The Helios Plus has all the features of the Helios for measuring a wide range of high power lasers in production operations, as well as the ability to measure additional wavelengths, such as blue and green lasers used in copper welding in the automotive industry
Jenoptik develops custom F-Theta lens for battery production
14 January 2021
The new F-theta lens is specially designed for the application of laser foil cutting for batteries with 1,064nm lasers
The optimised topology of the housing reduces the e-drive's overall weight by 10 per cent. (Image: Porsche)
Porsche manufactures e-drive housing using 12-laser 3D printer
13 January 2021
The e-drive unit measures 590 x 560 x 367mm and was built in 21 hours using SLM Solution's NXG XII 600
II-VI's remote laser processing heads will be combined with Coherent’s fibre laser technology. (Image: IIVI)
II-VI and Coherent collaborate to develop turnkey automotive welding solutions
8 January 2021
The collaboration will see II-VI's remote laser processing heads combined with Coherent’s Adjustable Ring Mode fibre laser technology.
Nuburu awarded eight new patents across 3D printing and materials processing
6 January 2021
The patents cover material processing with visible Raman lasers, in addition to the technology required to build these single mode visible lasers
Lasers can be used to cut vehicle doorings, ABC pillars and any other structural part in a car body made out of press-hardened steel.
Laser technology trends in automotive production
11 December 2020
LSE speaks with Martin Kuhnhen, head of Jenoptik’s Light & Production division, about the usage of laser technology on automotive production lines
Constructive concept of a lightweight container for municipal waste collection. (Image: Fraunhofer IWS)
Electric refuse vehicles to be built using lightweight materials
8 December 2020
New containers made from light metals and fibre composite plastics will replace the heavy steel superstructures of classic waste trucks
Nuburu's latest AI-1500 laser offers 1.5kW of power (Image: Nuburu)
Nuburu completes $20m Series B funding round
8 December 2020
Nuburu’s total funding is now nearly $50 million, and will be used to accelerate the development of its high-brightness AI Series
The production cells will manufacture complex car body parts for electric vehicles. (Image: Jenoptik)
Jenoptik receives major order from automotive industry
14 October 2020
Three productions cells have been ordered to help manufacture complex car body parts for electric vehicles at one of Gestamp’s plants in Germany.
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