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Leading the way in the field of custom laser processing since 1979, Laserage provides industry with various laser capabilities. Using our own custom designed CO2 and Nd:YAG laser systems, Laserage can precisely cut, drill, scribe, weld, and heat treat a wide variety of materials to your specifications.
Answering the challenging needs of industry, Laserage provides various production services. Laserage is equipped to handle small quantity to high volume production. Application feasibility studies and prototype development are also provided with quick turnaround. The custom laser systems, operated by Computer Numerical Control (CNC), permit accurate repeatability of each process for recurring production runs.
Laserage also performs secondary operations such as sub-assembly, testing and packaging. Regardless of the service provided, each operation is supported by a highly trained staff of engineers, laser technicians, and quality control specialists.
Laserage is registered to ISO 9001:2000 as a world class supplier that takes quality very seriously. Laserage uses the ISO guideline as a quality system basis in every aspect of operation.
The laser, which was discovered during the late 1950's, has rapidly developed into a safe and efficient tool with uses ranging from delicate surgery to industrial materials processing. LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification of Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
The intense beam of coherent light can be precisely directed to heat, melt, or vaporize select areas of almost any type of material. Laser energy, which is many times the intensity of the sun's surface, enables Laserage to process materials ranging from the hardest ceramic or super alloy to soft rubber or plastic with comparable ease. An important feature of the laser is that the finely focused beam results in a minimal heat affected zone (HAZ), and virtually no material distortion. Unique characteristics such as these afford the design engineer an opportunity to consider applications previously thought impossible, and may very well stretch the imagination into new vistas of technology.
The laser is clearly one of the newest acceptable alternatives to old century tooling technology now available to both product and tool designers. Evolving to a viable production alternative during the laser twenty-five years, the laser is a dependable new fabrication method for the next century.
- The intense heat of the industrial laser literally vaporizes or melts any material, hard or soft, in the beam's path.
- The exceptionally fine focal point of this beam is controllable to within only a few thousandths of an inch. This permits very tight tolerance control, and concentrates the heat to a smaller area, or heat affected zone (HAZ). The result is the least part distortion of any other heat related cutting technology.
- The fine focal point also assures a very narrow kerf in even the hardest materials facilitating accurate dimensional control.
In addition to cutting, drilling, or scribing (scoring) conventional materials such as ceramics, stainless steels, and ultra hard super alloys, the laser is also effective on such difficult to cut materials as quartz, plastics, polymers, phenolic resins, silicone rubbers, and certain types of glass. Because it is a non-contact energy source, the laser is particularly applicable to many composite materials, such as those used in gaskets, or even porous materials which are used in such products as hard or soft filters. Laserage has laser processed widely diverse materials such as reticulated ceramic to nitro-cellulose and cable insulation.
  
The laser is an excellent tool for welding many materials. Its focused beam delivers an intensity of heat with heretofore impossible pinpoint accuracy at speeds unmatched by conventional welding methods. This precise concentration of intense heat results in a very narrow weld bead with weld penetration control as close as plus or minus .001". The heat affected zone (HAZ) is again minimized assuring minimal dimensional distortion. These weld characteristics provide more reliable welds, more repeatedly on smaller, thinner parts.
The availability of such a unique, precision heat source opens the door for the design possibilities of selective heat treating of large, or small steel parts from prototype quantities to high volume production. Performed today on only a limited scale, Laserage can envision zone hardened shafts or spot annealed flat stampings custom designed to meet the ever broadening needs of tomorrow's more sophisticated applications.
Feasibility, cost estimating, customer liaison, and setting manufacturing parameter are the functions of the Engineering staff at Laserage. Our metallurgical, industrial and mechanical engineers work closely with customers to determine application requirements, and then design the tools and fixtures needed to proved high quality processing.
 To support the engineering staff, Laserage has a complete metallurgical laboratory. The lab provides Laserage with extensive on-site metallographic capability. Designed primarily to support manufacturing, the lab also serves to help engineers develop new applications for the laser.
Using the parameters determined by the engineers, a staff of skilled laser technicians prepare programs that run the CNC lasers. Laserage is also totally integrated electronically for transfer of customer computerized data. These programs can be stored for future production runs. The laser technicians also set up and maintain the laser systems to ensure accurate processing.
Laserage engineers have custom designed all of the laser systems to make them more efficient and productive. A custom laser with specially designed optics, along with unique work station construction, convert standard laser systems into multiple beam systems. Several systems are semi-automated or fully automated. For high volume jobs, these unique systems are able to out produce conventional lasers, and provide superior quality at a very competitive price.
Quality is the responsibility of everyone at Laserage. We are an ISO 9001:2000 registered world class manufacturer and supplier of laser services. Our certificate number is L112006 for "the precision laser processing of materials for all industries and the manufacturing of complex cable assemblies."
At Laserage we believe in Total Quality, continuous improvement and Quality at the Source. During a production run, various techniques are used to monitor quality including Statistical Process Control (SPC).
A complete range of quality support equipment is available throughout the facility including computerized optical measuring equipment, a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), Cirris hypot and continuity tester, other optical comparators, microscopes and gauging devices.
Thank you for taking the time to review this material on Laserage. Since Laserage was founded in 1979 we have grown to become one of the largest and most diverse laser processing facilities in the world.
Our priority has been to build relationships with our customers based on honesty and integrity. In addition, we have always been committed to Excellence at every level of our operation. As a result, Laserage was awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification.
At Laserage, we continue to view our employees as our most valuable resource. Through the commitment of these dedicated people and our ongoing "Focus on Excellence" program, our goal is to be the Largest, Highest Quality, Best Value and Most Responsive laser services company in the world.
We have developed a management structure that focuses our efforts on meeting or exceeding our customer's needs. Within each specific Product Group is the capability to customer interface, engineer, manufacture and insure the Quality of its own products. The benefits to our customers are higher Quality, shorter lead-times and more cost competitive manufacturing.
Together with our commitment to "Focus on Excellence" and the latest in laser technology, Laserage is committed to serving you. Please contact us with your application.
We look forward to working with you.
Steve Capp
President & CEO
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