Doubling laser cutting productivity (Jan 26, 2010)
As the old expression goes, something’s gotta give. Combined vertical and horizontal growth from new and expanding markets left irrigation systems leader Lindsay Corporation needing greater metal cutting capacity and fabrication throughput from its available manufacturing space. The company found the solution in a Cincinnati CL-850 laser cutting system, combining higher power and speed with a dual-pallet work changer.
Metals
East Granby, Conn. – Joining Technologies, an innovator in laser cladding, electron beam and laser welding applications, is a 2010 winner of Connecticut Quality Improvement Award’s CQIA Innovation Prize for its Infinite Web, a laser cutting and welding system for splicing iron and nickel-based strip alloys.
Read More >>Temecula, Calif. – Goboman has commissioned a laser cutting system from LPKF: the P6060 for the domestic manufacturing of custom gobos. This investment in a sophisticated laser cutting system enables the company to produce highly accurate custom gobos with an instant turnaround, bringing back work that was previously outsourced to Asia.
Read More >>Milpitas, Calif. – JDSU has announced that it has collaborated with Amada, a manufacturer of machine tools for metal fabrication, to develop a new high-power 4 kW fiber laser. The fiber laser has been integrated into a new sheet metal cutting system that Amada plans to start selling to the Japanese market in May 2011, followed by a global market introduction in June 2011.
Read More >>Woodinville, Wash. – Sportworks, a contract manufacturing and value engineering company, announced it will make its Mazak SpaceGear U44 3D laser cutter available to U.S. Pacific Northwest businesses.
Read More >>East Granby, Conn. – Joining Technologies Inc. has introduced Infinite WebTM 355, a laser cutting and welding system for splicing iron and nickel-based strip alloys. An all-in-one design incorporates laser welding and cutting with a single head.
Read More >>Rolling Meadows, Ill. – BEST Inc. announces the release of SMT metal stencil fabrication capability. In conjunction with long-time metal stencil fabricator, MRC, Fremont, Calif., BEST will be servicing Midwest clients with metal stencil requirements.
Read More >>Non-Metals
Rolling Meadows, IL – Converters, engineers, chemists, materials scientists and manufacturers will be able to obtain immediate on-site no-cost materials analyses of suitability for finishing, marking, and other detailing with laser die cutting from Spartanics Laser Die Cutting Materials Applications Laboratory.
Read More >>Rolling Meadows, IL – Converters, engineers and manufacturers seeking to use rapidly advancing laser die cutting technology for new product innovations can now determine if the materials they use can be handled by laser die cutting technology by sending samples for engineering studies and analyses to the new Spartanics Laser Cutting Applications Laboratory for Materials Research.
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