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• 26 August 2010
  NEXPRESSO project is now open
  The first call for pre-market components is now open
• 26 August 2010
  Two Machines delivered from MACH 2010
  Wood-burning stove manufacturer and vitreous enamellers, A J Wells & Sons Ltd from the Isle of Wight have ordered and taken delivery of two machines directly from the recent Mach 2010 exhibition, a Bystronic Byspeed 3015 4.4kW Laser cutting machine together with a Bystronic Xpert 150Tonne X 3 Metre Ten axis Pressbrake
• 26 August 2010
  ES Technology focus once again on TCT
  Following the success of last year’s exhibition, where significant interest was shown in the LaserCUSING® process from Concept Laser, ES Technology as exclusive UK distributor will return to TCT in 2010 as a key contributor
• 18 August 2010
  II-VI has unveiled its new portable Lens Stress Analyzer (LSA)
  Even the best of lenses can go bad. Thermal stress, mechanical stress, and contamination can all cause a lens to fail. When that happens, business can suffer from costly downtime or, in the event of catastrophic lens failure, even costlier laser system repairs
• 18 August 2010
  Advanced Optical Technology Product update: ACE™ Laser
  Advanced Optical Technology now offer special versions of their ACETM short-pulse E-O Q-switched Nd:YVO4 lasers operating beyond 100kHz, the maximum of the standard range
• 17 August 2010
  Laser Cutting PETG Sheets
  Laser cutting is a material process ideally suited when applied to PETG, as used to create blister packaging, display units and bottles
• 17 August 2010
  50 Years of Lasers - 20 Years of Laser Positioning from SCANLAB
  SCANLAB AG celebrates its 20th anniversary this year
• 16 August 2010
  Sixth Bystronic Laser cutting machine for Advanced Engineering Techniques
  AET, based in Sheffield, manufacture a range of sub contract engineering components for various customers as well as a range of professional grass care equipment of their own design
• 16 August 2010
  SPI Lasers declares CE Marking of pulsed and CW/M system products
  SPI Lasers, a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers, today announced that it declares CE Marking on all redPOWER “R4” CW/M and redEnergy “G3” pulsed products
• 16 August 2010
  LED powered signs provide new levels of clarity and flexibility
  Lasermet, experts in laser safety, have recently launched their new Ultra Range of large area LED powered signs, which offer extremely high clarity at all ambient light levels and total flexibility in the legends and colours that can be used
• 16 August 2010
  Laser marking Delrin cases to aid product traceability
  
• 13 August 2010
  Subcon Laser at the Cutting Edge for 21 years
  Most people will remember their 21st birthday for one reason or another, Subcon Laser certainly will, after it has emerged from one of the most dramatic and deep hitting recessions ever to hit the manufacturing industry
• 13 August 2010
  Lasermet LS-20High Integrity Laser Beam Shutter
  The Lasermet LS-20 Safety Shutter is intended to provide a means of preventing accidental exposure to a potentially harmful laser beams
• 13 August 2010
  PRO560 ball screw driven linear stage has wide support for high precision industrial positioning
  Standard and high speed version available. PRO series ball screw driven stages now supplied in widths of 115, 165, 225, 280 and 560mm for high accuracy, heavy load positioning in harsh industrial environments. Hard top & side sealed design provides superior protection than bellows alternatives
• 13 August 2010
  Update from University of Nottingham laser group
  Over the last year four students have completed their PhD’s in laser processing from the University of Nottingham laser group
• 12 August 2010
  Coherent Introduces Highest Power Ultrafast Amplifier System
  A new Ti:Sapphire ultrafast laser amplifier from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) delivers over twice the power of any comparable product
• 12 August 2010
  Sized up laser cutting
  Trumpf has developed a 2D laser machine for the processing of extra large sheets, up to 16 x 2.5m. Based on its twin-headed TruLaser 7040, the TruLaser 8000 comes with a range of options
• 12 August 2010
  Rofin’s Market-Leading Stent Cutting System Uses a Femtosecond Laser
  The new StarCut Tube Femto is one of the first systems to offer cold laser cutting for medical device manufacturing
• 11 August 2010
  High Q Laser in Rankweil, Austria, presents the “femtoTRAIN™ Ti:Sapphire”, the most compact, all-in-one, all-diode-pumped, Ti:Sapphire oscillator in the market
  The “femtoTRAIN™ Ti:Sapphire” offers femtosecond light pulses with a duration of <100 fs at a repetition rate of 73 MHz and an average power of up to 400 mW. It is available at fixed center wavelengths of 790, 800, 810, 850 or 870 nm, respectively
• 10 August 2010
  LVD Group reduces its carbon footprint
  LVD Company nv, Gullegem, Belgium -- a leading Belgian manufacturer of sheet metalworking machine tools and offline software - has recently installed solar electrical cells on 16.500 square meters of the rooftops of two of its Belgian facilities in a pro-active drive to reduce the groups’ energy costs and to offset its carbon footprint
• 10 August 2010
  Technology Innovation Fund
  NPL has just launched a new Technology Innovation Fund which provides an exciting and rare opportunity to work with NPL for a fraction of the normal cost. You can draw on NPL's unique combination of industry knowledge and world-leading scientific expertise to help your business
• 10 August 2010
  Cutting Foil-Coated Paperboard Packaging
  Paperboard is widely used for packaging and cartoning food products to provide rigidity and mechanical support. Laminating an ultra-thin aluminium foil to the paperboard adds oxygen and moisture resistance that serves to prevent spoilage of food
• 10 August 2010
  Rofin’s PowerLine L Series Designed for High-Speed Micro Material Processing
  Rofin has introduced a new laser series for high-speed micro material processing, with a special focus on photovoltaic manufacturing
• 9 August 2010
  New PRO280LM side-sealed direct-drive stage has increased width for heavy load submicron industrial positioning
  PRO-LM series now available in widths of 165, 225 and 280 mm for high accuracy heavy load positioning in harsh industrial environments. Hard top & side sealed design provides superior protection than bellows alternatives
• 9 August 2010
  Sirah’s PrecisionScan takes pulsed dye laser operation to new limits
  Sirah have re-invented the pulsed dye laser with the re-design of their most sophisticated dye laser – the PrecisionScan. Distributed in the UK and Ireland by Photonic Solutions, the new PrecisionScan offers the same level of precision mechanics, wavelength accuracy and reliability as the previous model PrecisionScan but now boasts superior operational features in a more compact unit