By: Paul Colby Background Bimetallic cylinders are pressure vessels functioning as a component in a system to melt plastics with abrasive additives such as glass and minerals. These vessels have been manufactured the same way since the 1950‘s. Xaloy has developed and patented a new technology that will improve the useful life of bimetallic cylinders […]
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New Advancements in Direct Metal Deposition Technology
By: Dr. Bhaskar Dutta POM Group Inc. POM’s patented close loop Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) process allows precision metal deposition using a laser and a coaxial powder delivery system. Besides this, DMD systems include DMDCAM, a comprehensive 6-axis CAM software solution to generate deposition paths for contour, surface and volume geometry, adopting different deposition path […]
Hot Wire Laser Cladding with Solid & Cored Wire
By: Wayne Penn Alabama Laser Hot Wire Laser cladding developed at Alabama Laser along with Lincoln Electric offers improved performance over traditional cladding techniques. Improvements include: no wasted filler material, production repeatability and stable production rates. The deposit has a pure metallurgical chemistry and the base material has a small heat affected zone. Alabama Laser […]
Spectra-Physics Celebrates 50th Year in Commercial Laser Industry
Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation Brand, announces the company is celebrating 50 years of pioneering new laser technologies, products and solutions for industry and science. Notably, the company became the first commercial laser company in 1961, less than a year after the invention of the laser. Spectra-Physics will begin the celebration of this milestone year at […]
Femtosecond Laser Opens Up a Wide Range of Applications in Micro and Macro Areas
Femtosecond laser opens up a wide range of applications in micro and macro areas thanks to a previously not attained mean output power of 1.1 kW. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT have developed an amplification concept for femtosecond lasers (fs laser). As a result, they have been able to achieve mean […]