LaserCoil Technologies LLC, based in Napoleon, Ohio, launched in 2011 with a new approach to laser blanking from coil stock. The innovative technology went through over three years of developmental research and planning at the Automatic Feed Company (AFCO), an organization known for pressroom automation with nearly 65-years of manufacturing expertise focused on metal blanking. […]
Month: January 2017
Weekly Lasers Wrap Up – Week of January 9th, 2017
The Laser Institute of America LasersToday.com Weekly Wrap-Up aggregates industry news, conference updates, and LIA happenings. Here is the latest: Laser Industry News Medical indwelling catheters, implanted into the body for up to three months at a time, tend to be prone to infections. A multi-discipline study is aiming to develop an optic-fiber delivered UV […]
Laser Generated Side-emitting Fibers for Anti-microbial Applications
By Alan Conneely Medical indwelling catheters used for vascular, respiratory and urological procedures, are implanted in the body for up to 3 months at a time and are therefore very susceptible to infection. In fact Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is perhaps the most common device-associated infection in hospitals with over 1 million infections per […]
Weekly Lasers Wrap Up – Week of January 2nd, 2017
The Laser Institute of America LasersToday.com Weekly Wrap-Up aggregates industry news, conference updates, and LIA happenings. Here is the latest: Laser Industry News Could quantum computing make the jump from the lab to practicality? If Google, Microsoft, and other industry leaders have their way, it could be a reality sooner than expected. Moving away from […]