Laser cutting produces efficient, precise cuts with smooth, uniform edges in both small and large runs on materials up to 1 ...

Critical aerospace and automotive manufacturing and assembly require simple, high-powered lasers to cut through metals and ...

Tennessee-based Cupples’ J&J Co. has added a 50-kW Cutlite Penta with bevel laser cutting machine. It can oxygen-cut materials up to 4 in. thick and cut with mixed gas through materials up to 2 in.

Steel and aluminum are ubiquitous in Americans’ lives. A stainless steel refrigerator holds aluminum soda cans.

“But as higher-power PCSEL modules are developed, we expect to see PCSEL-based laser processing systems used across a range of industrial manufacturing applications, including metal cutting.