At Vicenzaoro T.GOLD (January 17 - 22, 2020, Vicenza, Italy), Coherent will once again showcase a range of systems which offer advanced functionality and exceptional ease-of-use, thus providing jewelers and goldsmiths with better and faster results, while also lowering their costs. In pavilion 9, booth 30, Coherent will present a range of products from manual welders to fully automated manufacturing systems. Desktop and Performance series manual welding systems: these products enable the (...)
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SLS creates a new potential for design in medical technology
Laser sintering technology enables medical technology designers to print plastic objects for feasibility studies within a very short time. The functional prototypes largely have the same properties as injection-moulded parts. EEM AG goes one step further: It manages a balancing act between the production of prototypes and small series. ‘The spine is the key to health’ - Cyrill Aemisegger, responsible for development, technology and production at EEM AG, reminds us of this 2000-year old quote (...)
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Tube processing made easy
With the ByTube 130, Bystronic is launching a brand new laser cutting system that offers manufacturing companies an easy entry into tube processing – a field of business with a bright future. In the past, many metal processing job shops and original equipment manufacturers have limited their operations to the processing of sheet metal. In doing so, they have missed out on sales opportunities. With the new ByTube 130 laser cutting system, manufacturing companies can now gain access to new (...)
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K 2019: Coherent with new laser solutions for polymer processing
Laser manufacturer Coherent will present a range of sub-systems and systems that service a variety of plastics processing tasks, including welding, cutting, degating and marking. Whatever the application, these tools enable the plastics fabricator to reduce production costs, improve quality and yields, and implement more environmentally friendly processing. One key product on display will be the Coherent ExactWeld 230 P, a complete turnkey tool that enables particle-free high-throughput (...)
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Precision glass processing supports the trend towards heterogeneous integration
Laser Induced Deep Etching (LIDE) for thin glass opens new perspectives. "With the new LIDE precision process, we are enabling microsystems technology to exploit the full potential of glass," explained Dr. Roman Ostholt, Vice President LIDE at LPKF, in a presentation at the 3D Systems Summit 2019 in Dresden, Germany. The examples ranged from through glass vias to glass embedding and glass capping solutions with almost vertical walls. Glass substrate for embedding fan-out packages featuring (...)
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Coherent Creates a Center of Excellence for Industrial Laser Processing Systems and Sub-Systems
Coherent Inc. has significantly expanded its Gilching, Germany micromachining and sub-system facility, and completed the relocation of the company’s laser marking group from nearby Gunding. This “Center of Excellence”, designated as Coherent Munich, will be a significant upgrade to the organization’s applications and R&D capabilities, and affirms Coherent’s commitment to the industrial materials processing and manufacturing segment. Coherent Munich’s primary focus will be twofold: 1) (...)
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Evosys Laser GmbH wins popular founder award
Two and a half years after its foundation, Evosys Laser GmbH was awarded the founder prize of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Nuremberg. The prize is awarded annually for particularly innovative and successful company foundations. Evosys Laser GmbH was honored as one of the most successful business start-ups in the region at the award ceremony of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The prize, which was created by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Nuremberg for Middle (...)
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A matter of time
Producing highest quality watch cases is RM Lifestyle’s passion. Renowned manufacturers of top-of-the-range watches such as JS Watch expect this quality. RM Lifestyle has thus acquired an automated and customised engraving and marking system for engraving cases bottoms according to customer wishes. The company has thus gained independence from external suppliers and gained process stability and flexibility for itself and its customers. JS Watch watches are highly appreciated by connoisseurs (...)
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Laser blanking lines exceed expectations
Laser blanking lines don’t require dies, but can’t match the productivity of conventional blanking lines: This commonly held assumption has now been proven false based on real production data collected by a Schuler customer. Over the course of the first year in production, Schuler’s newly developed systems outperformed the contractually agreed upon yields by 20 to 100 percent, depending on the specific part produced. This means that, in some cases, output was double the contracted amount. A (...)
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LPKF ProtoLaser R for Structuring LTCC Carbon Tape
The LPKF ProtoLaser R is the first com-pact laboratory laser with an ultrashort-pulse laser source. Its unique strengths are most obvious in the cold processing of thin layers. In a re-cently presented tech paper, it demonstrated its precision on a special material. With a laser spot size of just 15 µm, it was able to structure and cut 0.2-mm-thick carbon tape for LTCC manufacturing. The tech paper presents the test layout as well as the results in the form of microscope images with (...)