SHOP SOLUTIONS Continued from P31
Fiber Laser Makes the Cut at West Coast Job Shop
P
rior to opening his job shop, Larry Rosevear honed his sheet metal fabrication skills by building dune buggies—a lot of dune buggies. That’s where he realized that laser cut- ting was much faster than his plasma cutter. “My company Suspensions Unlimited was selling 100 cars
per year,” said Rosevear. “I purchased my fi rst used laser in 2000. I was getting my work done in two hours, and the laser was sitting idle for six hours a day. So I began doing little odd jobs and cutting my own parts. Soon I began cutting parts for other people, and we received more and more orders. Eventually, the business grew so quickly that the company evolved into a 100% job shop.”
In 2001, Rosevear opened up his new company, Laser Innovations, in Anaheim, CA. The fl edgling company began
operations with just a laser, a waterjet, and a press brake. “The job shop business was easier to predict than the dune buggy business,” said Rosevear. “My early clientele were my customers who had purchased dune buggies. We were getting business through word of mouth, and soon I was building parts for my previous dune buggy competitors who saw the quality of the laser.” Today, the company has grown into two 8700 ft2 buildings for a total of 17,400 ft2
(808 m2 (1616 m2 and services have also grown to include multiple CO2 )
). The equipment list lasers,
waterjet cutting, welding fabrications, sheet metal and all types of custom fabrication. And the company’s customer list has evolved by adding the following industries: medical, display, military, automotive, construction, and manufacturing. By 2014, Laser Innovations continued its growth and Rosevear began his search for additional laser capacity. He attended the 2014 FABTECH show in Atlanta with a friend who owned a job shop in Utah. “My friend owns three Prima Power CO2
lasers that have automation, and he told me that I
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