Landscape Shifting for Laser Materials Processing

Jul 28, 2023

From Scoring Soup Cans to Engraving Trophies, CO2 and DPSS Lasers Are Proven WorkhorsesLasers are an established tool in converting lines and are widely used in the food industry to score soup, coffee or beverage pouches creating an easy-open function. They are also used to drill foils for vegetable packages, making them breathable. And cigarette strength is controlled through the drilling of cigarette paper. Other applications for lasers are in the medical industry where they are used to cut components like blood testers. Digital printing or production lines also use lasers for kiss cutting of labels and for grinding paper. In most laser converting cases, organics and plastics are the materials being processed, thus making a diamond CO2 laser, emitting a wavelength of 10.2 µm, the ideal laser source.