BUsiNEss NEWs
PHOTOniCs PeOPLe
special light source company Heraeus Noblelight has appointed rick slagle as its business development manager for optoelectronics for the North American market.
semiconductor laser developer intense has appointed Kevin Laughlin to the position of chief executive offi cer.
Kenji uehara has joined laser interferometer and optical profi ler manufacturer 4D technology as its Asian regional manager.
Matthias Peters has joined toptica photonics as its oEM sales manager responsible for the sales of toptica’s oEM products, including diode lasers, multi-laser engines and ultrafast fi bre lasers.
Wavefront metrology specialist EsDi has named Donald Pearson as its chief executive offi cer. pearson joined EsDi in March 2007 as sales and marketing director.
ulrike Helfferich has started work as the sales director for the German market for roper industries brand princeton instruments, while employed with its sister company roper scientifi c.
Newport has announced that Christopher Cox has joined the company’s board of directors. cox is a partner in the law fi rm Bingham Mccutchen and prior to that served as the 28th chairman of the Us government’s securities and Exchange commission.
Linus Zoller has been appointed as the new managing director of Jenoptik’s optical systems company Eisenach-based photonic sense. Zoller replaces Hendrikus Nijssen, who is leaving the company on 31 December to pursue new professional opportunities.
Boeing’s 787 uses composites extensively
Lasers can effectively cut, mill and drill carbon fi bre reinforced plastics (CFrP) without compromising the material’s integrity, an ongoing study by JK Lasers and Liverpool John Moores University has found. Mechanical milling and drilling has been known
to cause costly heat damage, chipping, delamination and tool wear, because of the composition of CFrP and the high heat conductivity of carbon fi bre. ‘CFrP can be used in a wide range of industries to
create new products such as the lighter, more fuel effi cient Boeing 787. The preliminary results of JK Lasers’ research in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University suggest that lasers are more than capable of rising to the challenge,’ rugby-based JK Lasers worldwide technical key account manager, Mohammed Naeem said. ‘By revolutionising the quality of CFrP processing
without compromising the material’s strength and stability, lasers will help drive down the costs associated with carbon composite manufacture in the years to come.’ For the study a 200W JK200FL fi bre laser was
used for trepanning and milling CFrP with a scanning head and cutting and drilling CFrP using more conventional process heads. The researchers found that compared to mechanical cutting and milling the JK200FL’s small spot size produced a much cleaner edge and had minimal thermal damage. The research has also found that in composites of 1mm thickness or more the JK200FL laser could spiral drill holes and produce a cut with only a very slight burn-back, which was limited to the top layer of fi bres only.
lasers process composites best say researchers
Newport’s performance softens with third quarter slowdown
Sales for Newport in the third quarter saw little growth over those during the same period in 2010, because of a signifi cant decline in the microelectronics sector.
Net sales in the third quarter,
ending 1 October, were $125.6 million, an increase of 0.3 per cent over the same period in 2010. The lack of growth was blamed on an industry-wide slowdown in the
6 ElEctro optics l DECEMBEr 2011/JANUArY 2012
microelectronics market that led to reduced demand for Newport’s products in that sector. New orders also saw a year-on-
year decrease, falling 8.4 per cent in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2010. The sales increase of 0.3 per cent was only achieved, because sales held up in Newport’s other markets. Newport’s chief executive offi cer and president robert Phillippy
said: ‘We continued to deliver a solid fi nancial performance in the third quarter, despite a reduction in sales to semiconductor equipment customers resulting from the slowdown in that industry.’ During 2011, Newport acquired
the fi rms High Q Technologies and Ophir Optronics and Phillippy said he expected those companies to add to Newport’s sales in the fourth quarter.
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