MEMBER PROFILE SPI Lasers
Leading Designer & Manufacturer of Fiber Lasers
SPI Lasers, a wholly owned subsidiary of the TRUMPF group, is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers for welding, cutting, marking, drilling and micromachining.
The company’s product portfolio covers numerous application process areas across a wide range of industries including automotive, electronics and the medical device sectors. “SPI Lasers technology solves manufacturing problems; it moves the boundaries of what is possible, making good products better and enabling new designs,” according to a company statement. “Operations can be carried out faster and more accurately with an SPI Laser for better reliability, less waste and improved productivity.”
SPI Lasers sells its products globally and has its major
business operations, including R&D and manufacturing, in the UK, US and Asia, as well as worldwide sales and customer support. Drawing on over 40 years expertise, SPI Lasers also provides post-sales technical support, staff training and sample processing in our own specialist applications laboratories.
SPI Lasers was established in 1999 to exploit technology developed by the renowned Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.
Its core competencies
and intellectual property in developing special optical fibers and Bragg gratings were initially applied to the manufacture of
optical components telecommunications.
In 2002 the business was refocused on the design and manufacture of fiber lasers for industrial manufacturing. The company released its first commercial products at Laser Show 2003. SPI Lasers was listed on the UK stock market 2005. SPI Lasers was acquired by TRUMPF in September 2008. This year, SPI Lasers acquired JK Lasers, a leading manufacturer of high-power fiber lasers for industrial use.
SPI Lasers employs more than 300 people globally at manufacturing facilities in Southampton and Rugby in the UK; applications labs in Southampton, Shanghai and Santa Clara, CA; service centers in Southampton, Rugby, Santa Clara, Shenzen, Shanghai and Seoul; and with a sales presence in China, Korea, Europe and the US. “In addition we have a number of partner organizations and distributors spread across the globe who can support our customers,” the company says.
18 LIATODAY FOCUS: LASERS IN MANUFACTURING JULY/AUGUST 2015
SPI Lasers joined LIA in 2004 and has been a Gold Sponsor of ICALEO®
since 2006. “SPI Lasers has also proudly served
with members on the LIA Board of Directors during most of our years of membership. We have also participated actively on various conference committees, educational offerings and initiatives.”
) and Summit, “which is quickly becoming an essential forum for those looking to industrial laser technology as a means for reinvigorating manufacturing in the USA.”
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LIA is “a vital membership organization for any company interested in the use of lasers for industrial applications. LIA puts us in touch with partner companies, academic institutions, industry colleagues and end users for industrial lasers. SPI Lasers has also invested its resources to help LIA launch and sustain the Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®
for long-distance, high-speed
SPI Lasers focuses on producing nanosecond pulsed fiber lasers from 10 W to 100 W and CW fiber lasers from 200 W up to 4 kW. The ns-pulsed lasers are used primarily for marking and micromachining, while cutting and rapid prototyping are done with the CW lasers.
The company “is always evaluating the intersection between our fiber laser technology and advanced applications with manufacturing application.” Present developments include air-cooled pulsed lasers at >100 W and water-cooled CW lasers to 6 kW.
In recent years, “the number of suppliers offering basic fiber lasers for marking has exploded, with several new suppliers particularly in China offering 20 W marking lasers. This trend has driven base pricing down by a factor of two and has dramatically split the marking and engraving sector into a base market (which seeks a readable mark at the lowest possible price) and a premium market, where particular details of the marking are important for quality and product differentiation.”
“SPI Lasers has responded to these changes by developing the most comprehensive portfolio of pulsed fiber lasers in the industry. Our product range allows our OEM customers to differentiate themselves from the generic marking machines with laser capabilities that create highly specialized marks, deep engraving or textures.”
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