Member Innovations Buffalo Filter Launches New, Improved PlumePen® Pro


Surgical Smoke Evacuation Pencil Buffalo Filter recently launched its new, improved PlumePen® Pro Surgical Smoke Evacuation Pencil at the AORN Surgical Conference & Expo 2016 held in Anaheim, CA April 2-6, 2016. PlumePen Pro now offers surgeons the flexibility and option of longer surgical smoke capture ports making the exchange of blades easy and plume capture tailored to the blade length.


“Our growing portfolio of surgical smoke evacuation pencils is the result of our strategic focus to add value to our procedural solutions,” said Kimberly M. Addison, Director of Marketing. “The re-launch of PlumePen Pro validates our continued commitment to improve the operating room. We will continue to develop user friendly solutions that protect the ones that care for us from the hazards associated with surgical smoke inhalation and exposure.”


For more information, visit www.filtrationgroup.com.


Precision Laser Scanning Announces Ultra-compact Polygon Scanners for High Speed Laser Scanning Faster and more powerful lasers require faster scan rates. Polygon scanners are 10 to 100 times faster than galvanometer scanners. However, polygon scanners, with their controllers, can be very bulky, making it difficult to implement high speed laser scanning technology into small spaces.


Precision Laser Scanning announces its GeckoTM series of


ultra-compact polygon scanners. Gecko’s have the motor polygon assembly mounted directly to the control board and the size of the control board has been drastically reduced with application specific ICs. High efficiency allows use without a bulky heat sink.


A complete motor polygon assembly with


controller can be made having a footprint smaller than a credit card!


Microscopy and biomedical applications have always had size constraints. As UAVs get smaller, polygon scanners used for LIDAR must be reduced in size, weight and power consumption. Autonomous vehicles including self-driving cars may use compact polygon scanners for collision avoidance. The small size and low mass of a Gecko polygon scanner is optimum on the end of a rapidly moving robotic arm. ULTRAFAST lasers require polygon speed to fully utilize MHz pulse rates in material processing.


For more information, visit www.precisionlaserscanning.com.


Members In Motion


Grand Opening of the Photonics Cluster on RWTH Aachen Campus


The International Laser Technology Congress AKL’16, organized by Fraunhofer ILT, welcomed more than 500 laser technology experts and 100 scientists, business leaders and politicians to the Campus Talk during the evening event. These guests saw as property developers Landmarken AG and KPF architects officially handed Fraunhofer ILT the keys to the new Photonics Cluster building. Following the “Photonics Cluster – Tailored Light” talk, guests had the opportunity to visit the new building and take a look at its research facilities and offices.


For more information, visit www.ilt.fraunhofer.de.


LPW Technology Granted Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2016 LPW Technology are extremely proud winners of a Queen’s Award for


Enterprise in International Trade 2016. The


Queen’s Award is the most prestigious corporate achievement that any UK business can attain and is a seal of approval for outstanding performance. Entrepreneur Dr. Phil Carroll founded high tech company LPW, producers and suppliers of metal powders and applications development used in 3D printing, just nine years ago from his kitchen table in Cheshire.


The company is now a global market leader with 60 highly skilled staff working from LPW’s head office in Runcorn, Cheshire, a fast growing facility in Pittsburgh, an office in Germany, and a network of resellers around the world.


In addition to supplying high end metal powder to the additive manufacturing industry, LPW houses world leading laboratory equipment to optimize and analyse powder, and has developed a unique portfolio of products and software to increase yield and reduce risk in the AM process.


LPW’s team have unrivalled knowledge in developing applications and specialist materials particularly for the high- tech aerospace, F1 and medical implant industries.


LPW’s overseas sales have grown by over 300 percent during the last three years with the proportion of sales exported increasing to 70 percent of total sales.


For more information, visit www.lpwtechnology.com.


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