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Case Studies

Below you will find a selection of interesting Case Studies covering a range of laser marking and laser cutting applications. We aim to update these for you on a regular basis so you should check back every so often to see what’s new.

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Laser Marking of Rubber Axle bumper: Automotive Application

Laser Marking of Rubber Axle Bumpers Most organic based materials are better marked using CO2 in terms of their energy abortion values being high. The only major issue is contrast levels. Rubber is no exception, as you can see from the image, the laser effectively melts the rubber creating an engraved mark. Where the material

Automotive
Laser Engraved Ceramic Blocks

Laser Marking of Ceramic Block: Part identification

Laser marking of Ceramic Block During the component manufacturing process, these ceramic blocks are cut in half creating a matched pair. The matched pair must be clearly identified as a pair for the remainder of the process. Laser marking the top and bottom sections of the block with a serial number, ensures the two halves

Semiconductor
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Laser marking of engine block sand mould

Laser Marking of Engine Block Sand Mould – Cosworth This is one of the most exciting applications we have been involved with.  The challenge is to resolve the tracking of information, regarding engine build for investigation if failures occur. The initial idea was to place a 2D code onto the engine casing however, this would

Automotive
Laser Marking of Fashion accessory

Laser marking of fashion accessory – Bracelet

This fashion accessory will be very familiar to many people, but is the laser marking of fashion accessory as familiar. The designer wanted to ensure that his product could be singled out from the rest, and therefore designed a logo that could be laser marked onto the end balls. These small magnetic balls were 3-5

Fashion
Laser engraving gold jewellery

Laser engraving gold jewellery

Laser Engraving Gold Jewellery A start-up company wanted to experiment with lasers, with a view to offering some form of personalisation, on a range of jewellery being offered to its potential market. The majority of the products were based around gold plated finishing. The Nd:YAG seemed to provide the greatest flexibility, enhanced by the larger

Fashion
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Deep engraving of medal by Laser for Gold Plating

Deep Engraving of Medal by Laser – Thinklaser Employee The product will be used as part of the awards at a charity fund raiser organised during 2013. Wanting the deep engraving of medal to stand out, the organisers designed the medal from Aluminium and arranged for it to be gold plated. The laser engraving was

Leisure
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Deep laser engraving of lucky charm disk

Deep Laser Engraving of Lucky Charm Disks This 98 mm stainless steel disk is representative of laser engraving.  The decorative lucky charm, has been plated in 24 ct. gold to make it a truly unique product destined for distant shores. The process is quite slow, in that the laser has to remove the materials in

FashionLeisure
Deep laser engraving in Stainless Steel

Deep Laser Engraving of Stainless Steel

Deep Laser Engraving of Stainless Steel This 35 mm diameter disk, manufactured from stainless steel has been plated in 24ct. Gold. The laser engraving on each side being representative of deep laser engraving of stainless steel. There seems to be an increasing market for the supply of customised products, the more unusual the better. You

FashionLeisure
Laser Marking a Brand

Laser Marking a Brand: Audio connectors

Laser Marking a Brand Application – Dynamique Audio Highend audio equipment accessory, the aim being product branding of the connector by laser marking a brand or logo on it. The main body being finished with a very thin polymer coated surface. The fiber laser pulsing at a very low level, removes the coating, to expose

Leisure
Brass instrument wells

Laser marking of brass instrument well

Laser Marking of Brass Wells – WDS A simple looking job that is a little more complicated than you first think. The brass cup is inserted into the instrument panel and requires to be aligned in a certain orientation. However, the assembly process means that you cannot see the front of the well during assembly.

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Laser marking of glass

Laser Marking of Glass using fibre lasers

Laser Marking of Glass – Happy Couple Dave and Georgie A request from the bride-to-be, to create a wedding day \favour\ for her guests. The glass bauble is coated on the inside with various painted coatings providing the finished colour, in this case a white base colour. Nd:Yag Pulsed laser marking, at a very low

FashionLeisure
laser marking with Thermark aston martin foot plate

Laser Marking with Thermark and Aluminium to Create High Contrast Marking.

Laser Marking with Thermark Application – Aston Martin The laser marking of a foot plate was processed as follows. First of all, the aluminium is processed using a surface additive, in order to produce a high contrast from the laser marking. The thermark coating is applied, and then the marking is processed. Where the laser

Automotive