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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lasers support manufacturing training, education</title>
      <description>A UK school has acquired a Universal Laser VL200 system from ES Technology to enhance the manufacturing facilities and learning experience of students.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ES Technology</category>
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      <title>5-axis CNC laser drilling machine introduced</title>
      <description>Mitsui Seiki has introduced a small, vertical, Nd:YAG laser drilling machine in answer to aerospace companies' wishes for a more accurate system to be used on engine components.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Mitsui Seiki</category>
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      <title>Laser drilling machine offers more accuracy</title>
      <description>Mitsui Seiki has developed a small, vertical, Nd:YAG laser drilling machine for 300mm3 parts for aerospace engine parts makers who wanted a higher-speed and more accurate laser-drilling machine.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Mitsui Seiki</category>
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      <title>Fibre laser usage includes welding plasdtics</title>
      <description>Fibre lasers can be used for plastics welding for the medical and mobile phone industries, scribing and cutting polymers for the automotive industry and ablation of thin films.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>SPI Lasers UK</category>
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      <title>Cutting/machining micro-components with lasers</title>
      <description>Laser technology satisfies the need for the fine cutting and micro machining applications to be found across a diverse range of products and industries.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rofin-Baasel UK</category>
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      <title>Laser cuts and welds at speed, precisely</title>
      <description>A 1kW disk laser system precisely cuts and welds thin sheets at speed, producing very fine seam geometries and is also ideal for robotic 3D cutting.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Trumpf</category>
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      <title>Fiber lasers challenge near infra red lasers</title>
      <description>Fiber lasers are challenging near infra red lasers as the best process for plastics welding for medical industries, scribing and cutting polymers for automotive industry and ablating of thin films.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>SPI Lasers UK</category>
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      <title>Largest range of laser systems shown</title>
      <description>Systems dedicated to jewellery manufacture and repair, jewellery marking, internal marking of glass products and the manufacture of point of sale displays were shown at a recent UK fair.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rofin-Baasel UK</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rfi/rfi215.html</link>
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      <title>Laser machining has friendly, flexible software</title>
      <description>Laser systems for micro-material processing have a flexible user-friendly software for laser marking, cutting, engraving, welding, and drilling.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Latronics</category>
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      <title>Lasers work and split brittle materials</title>
      <description>Among various solid state laser developments to be shown at LASER 2007 is a thermal laser beam separation process to split brittle materials such as glass, ceramics and semiconductors.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Jenoptik</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/jen/jen129.html</link>
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      <title>Laser diode bar improves coating, welding</title>
      <description>A very high brightness laser diode bar having up to four times the brightness of a typical 10mm bar is designed for efficient beam shaping for metal coating, cladding and welding.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Bookham</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/boy/boy143.html</link>
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      <title>8kW laser is reliable in welding and cutting</title>
      <description>On show at Laser 2007 was an 8kW CO2 laser that combines the highest output capacity in welding and cutting applications with the highest possible level of process reliability.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Trumpf</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/tru/tru269.html</link>
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      <title>Laser etching lowers flat screen TV prices</title>
      <description>Advanced, high power lasers have replaced conventional wet-etch photolithography to make pixel patterns and so lower the cost of manufacturing flat-screen television sets.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Powerlase</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/poj/poj111.html</link>
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      <title>Lasers to manufacture plasma display panels</title>
      <description> Lasers have been developed for the manufacture of plasma display panel televisions and will increase the speed and flexibly of the rapid laser patterning manufacturing process.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Powerlase</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/poj/poj109.html</link>
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      <title>High power Nd:YAG lasers have many uses</title>
      <description>High power diode pumped Nd:YAG lasers are well suited for diverse applications such as removal, cleaning, and insulation of various materials in different markets.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rofin-Baasel UK</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rfi/rfi196.html</link>
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      <title>Laser drilling system has more intelligence</title>
      <description>A Nd:YAG laser drilling system with its increased intelligence and new features, will help increase an air engine builder's complex component producability and productivity.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Laserdyne Prima</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/lrd/lrd115.html</link>
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      <title>Top-Hat laser beam shaper launched</title>
      <description>Top-Hat laser beam-shapers accept a 4.0mm Gaussian beam and creates a 200 micron diameter Top-Hat spot at an 80mm working distance.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Laser Components (UK)</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/lrc/lrc109.html</link>
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      <title>Web site details laser machining/processing</title>
      <description>The latest developments in laser-based multi-axis drilling and processing can be found on a Web site covering uses in aerospace, turbine engine, medical and critical part manufacturing.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Laserdyne Prima</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/lrd/lrd114.html</link>
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      <title>High precision laser profiles medical implants</title>
      <description>High precision laser cutting system profiles medical implants such as stents or other precision components and speeds are ten times higher than with the first machines.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rofin-Baasel UK</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rfi/rfi180.html</link>
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      <title>Laser machining processes thicker materials</title>
      <description>The need to process materials whose thickness is outside the scope of its current manufacturing plant was the main reason why Beakbane investing in its new Trumpf L3030 2D laser-machining centre.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Trumpf</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/tru/tru248.html</link>
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      <title>Software chosen for five-axis laser machining</title>
      <description>CADCAM software has been selected for a radical five-axis laser machining process that offers lower cost and higher speed against EDM for machining complex geometries in turbine blades.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Delcam</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/dea/dea206.html</link>
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      <title>High beam quality pulsed YAG profiles finely</title>
      <description>In medical device manufacture, pulsed Nd:YAG lasers now can do the work of profiling increasingly finer, structures.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Rofin-Baasel UK</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/rfi/rfi122.html</link>
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