We have been operating as a laser cutting company since 1998 and we have seen and experienced huge changes in technology. In the last 22 years we having grown from running one eight year old 1.3KW laser cutting machine to last week when we brought our fourth Trumpf 5030 laser cutting machine online, growing our capacity even further.
Optical fibre lasers were first demonstrated in 1961 by Elias Snitzer. Fibre lasers required almost two decades of development before any of the first commercial devices appeared on the market in the late 1980s. They are now used for many applications including cutting, welding, additive manufacturing (3D printing) and as sensors. The beam intensity, duration and heat output of a fibre laser can be controlled minutely, so they lend themselves to precision functions.
Fibre is the most recently available form of laser cutting, with commercial machines only coming onto the market in 2009. In 2007 Salvagnini, an Italian technology company, began investigating the potential of applying fibre laser technology to cutting sheet metal. They were heavily invested in the manufacture of CO2 laser cutting machines, but realised that they were only achieving incremental performance improvements. The L1Xe fibre laser, capable of cutting up to 18mm thick steel, was introduced to the world at the EuroBlech exhibition in 2008. Salvagnini shipped its first fibre laser cutter in March 2009.
Our fibre laser machines cut up to 20mm thick stainless steel and 25mm mild steel, balancing our requirements of power, speed and precision. If you would like to take advantage of our services, please don’t hesitate to contact our sales team on 01376 327 182 or email [email protected].