We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new team leader in Hok, Alexander Storck.
Production is in safe hands.
Alexander was previously team leader at the press department in Skillingaryd and has now had the chance to test his wings on the larger unit up in Hok.
Nd:YAG: A solid-state laser where the laser-active medium is a YAG crystal doped with neodymium. It provides a wavelength of around 1064 nm, high precision, and the option of both pulsed and continuous operation. Nd:YAG is often used for finer details, thinner materials, and the combination of cutting/welding.
Disc laser: A further developed solid-state laser where the laser-active material is a thin disc mounted against a cooling plate. This provides very stable beam quality, high efficiency, and is well suited for automated high-volume production in metal, with narrow cuts and good repeatability.
Eccentric pressing is a method of sheet metal pressing that uses an eccentric press to shape or cut metal using high, repeatable strokes.
The picture shows a pressed detail.
A fiber laser creates light in a diode-pumped, rare-earth-doped glass fiber (often ytterbium). The same fiber both amplifies and guides the light to the cutting head. There, the beam is focused to a very small point of high energy density. The result is a narrow cutting gap (kerf), high speed and good detail reproduction-especially in thin to medium-thick sheet metal and in reflective metals such as aluminum and copper.