Laser manufacturer Trumpf has formed a new North American sales partnership with its subsidiary SPI Lasers

Laser manufacturer Trumpf has formed a partnership with US additive manufacturing firm Sintavia in order to accelerate the penetration of its TruPrint metal printers within the global aerospace industry

Photonics group Jenoptik has relocated its business to a new building on a modern, sixteen-acre engineering campus in Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA

The global market for laser systems for materials processing reached a record volume of $12.6 billion in 2016 after increasing 6.8 per cent

IPG Photonics has reported annual sales exceeding $1 billion in 2016, an increase of 12 per cent year-over-year

AWL-Techniek, a Dutch producer of automated welding machines, has opened a new branch in Mexico at the end of 2016

Electrox and Tykma have merged in order to further activity in North America and build on Electrox's recent European success

A report by Transparency Market Research has labelled North America as the largest market for photonics, but that Asia Pacific is the fastest growing driven by demand for instruments from India, China and Japan. The report predicts the global photonics market value to increase to $765.89 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 5.8 per cent from 2014 to 2020.