As with traditional welding techniques, materials are melted in the weld zone, although laser-based techniques use quicker heating and cooling cycles (Figure 1). These rapid thermal cycles are a ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

OXFORD, Mass., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPG Photonics Corporation, the leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, today announced the launch of LightWELD, a new handheld laser welding ...

Applications engineer Jay Eastman observes the action of a laser weld-bond, a materials joining technology developed at the Edison Welding Institute (EWI) of Columbus, Ohio. The technology combines ...

At last month’s LASER World of Photonics exhibition in Munich, Germany, industrial solutions and laser giant Trumpf presented a new materials processing laser system solution specified to improve ...

Figure 1. Various test samples that have been laser welded in an applications lab (a) and a low-density polyethylene fluid container welded with a diode laser system (b). Direct welding of plastics is ...

In the medical device world, laser welding encompasses a wide range of applications and part sizes. However, when laser-welding process cannot be fully verified, FDA requires that manufacturers ...

Partnership with AMT GmbH achieves laser-assisted metal flux-cored welding for easier wet fabrication. Pile treatment: laser-assisted metal flux-cored welding. Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH), together ...