At MD&M West, Emerson demoed its Branson laser plastic welding portfolio, including a Galvo welder that uses photons to weld plastics without vibration and contamination. As Machine Design’s content ...

Plastic welding systems maker Dukane Corp. is expanding its equipment portfolio with the acquisition of Blackhawk Technology Group LLC, a contract manufacturer of laser plastic welding services and ...

Industrial lasers are used to process engineering plastics across many markets. Some examples of the common processes are shown in Figure 1, including laser marking, cutting, and welding.

Leister has released an air-cooled laser system for plastic welding, providing a lower cost of entry for incorporating this precision hermetic plastic joining technology. CHICAGO--(BUSINESS ...

Laser plastic welding has grown in popularity for medical applications because it reliably joins a wide range of materials, including dissimilar materials. At the same time, the process uses no ...

K 2016 marked the world debut of laser-based infrared welding, from Bielomatik Leuze GmbH + Co. KG. The company in Neuffen, Germany, said laser-based infrared welding is totally particle free and ...

A growing U.S. economy has led to increased demand for plastics welding equipment in a range of markets, and that has resulted in Forward Technology (Cokato, MN ) expanding operations. A manufacturer ...

In the recently successfully-completed German R&D project SeQuLas, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) and three industrial partners have developed a novel joining process to produce ...

Even a few years back, standard CO 2 lasers were utilized by major manufacturers in factories for welding applications. Massive systems installed in separate rooms away from the actual production ...