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Laser Drilling Laser drilling is a non-contact process that utilizes laser beams to remove material and produce holes. Laser beams, or extremely focused radiations of wavelengths, use heat energy to alter materials by vaporizing or burning away surface layers until a hole is created.
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Philadelphia, PA  |  800-523-2759

Lasermation is your leading laser cutting services manufacturer. We are dedicated to manufacturing high-quality products with quick turnaround times, superior customer service, and competitive prices. We attribute our success to our continuous improvement and lean manufacturing.

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Lasermation, Inc. $$$

Maple Grove, MN  |  763-425-4755

Great Lakes Engineering is a trend setting manufacturer of surface mount stencils, precision laser cut parts, and photo chemical etched parts. We work with a wide range of materials, including Stainless Steel, Copper, Brass, Titanium, Nitinol, Nickel, Kovar and many others.

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Great Lakes Engineering, Inc. $$$

Tamaqua, PA  |  888-218-2260

Our teams at Remaly Manufacturing Company, Inc. utilize state of the art equipment to provide you with laser cutting capabilities. Our teams provide cutting services for a wide range of materials such as steel, aluminum, stainless steel, monel and much more.

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Remaly Manufacturing Company, Inc. $$$

Gurnee, IL  |  847-855-9200

Our fiber optic metal laser cutting capabilities include Stainless steel, Aluminum, CRS and other ferrous and nonferrous metals. We can laser cut flat blanks, stencils, signs, prototypes, and custom formed fabricated parts.

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American Industrial Company $$$

Bellmawr, NJ  |  800-210-5000

When it comes to laser cutting, Mercer Gasket & Shim is your industry leader. For over 100 years, we have been providing laser cutting services to a variety of industries. Our facilities are equipped to do laser cutting on a wide range of materials, including plastic, stainless steel, rubber, and aluminum. We are ISO 9001:2008 certified.

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Mercer Gasket & Shim $$$

New Berlin, WI  |  800-879-4418

Sharpe Products specializes in custom pipe and tube bending and tube laser cutting. With three powerful, 4kW laser cutting systems, and a robotic, multi-axis 3 kW laser cutting system, we cut round, square, rectangle and open profiles, up to 6-inch OD. Typical cutouts include angles, copes, notches, perforations, slots, or other custom hole patterns, either before or after tube bending. We...

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Sharpe Products $$$

Honeybrook, PA  |  610-273-3364

We offer precision laser cutting services, using state of the art CO2 lasers that offer sharper, faster and more precise finished products than our competitors. BenCo Technology’s laser cutting services are capable of creating extremely accurate products from hard or soft, thick or thin materials. Our team of experts have the experience to work with you to come up with the perfect,...

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BenCo Technology, LLC $$$

Chesterfield Twp, MI  |  586-598-6900

As a full-service metal fabrication company founded in 1990, Prototech Laser provides high-quality precision work for industries such as defense and automotive. With a dedication to providing innovative solutions, Prototech offers machining, welding, plasma cutting, as well as CNC laser cutting, laser drilling, laser marking, and more, using state-of-the-art industrial laser cutters.

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Prototech Laser, Inc. $$$
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Laser drilling serves industries such as medical, semiconductor, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing, and is essential for fabricating products including engine blades, irrigation needles, fuel injectors, flow control devices and nozzle guide rings. Laser drilling, which is a laser cutting process works by precision-controlling the heat energy achieved by short, rapid laser pulsations through a combination of CNC machining and CAD computer programs. CAD is the actual computer program that takes the dimensions of the desired tool and tells the computer controlling the machine, the CNC, what to do.

The focused laser beam is able to remove surface layer materials to form holes of varying diameters and depths. Several different laser drilling processes can be used including: single-shot laser drilling, which uses a single high-energy laser pulse; percussion drilling, which uses multiple short-duration, low-energy pulses; trepanning, where a pilot hole is created and then multiple laser pulses enlarge the hole through circular motions; and helical drilling, using multiple laser pulses in circular motions in a downward spiral.

Laser drilling can perform precise high speed drilling in virtually every existing metal and certain plastic materials such as silicone; it can also permit the drilling of holes in exotic alloys not possible with traditional methods such as wire EDM and CNC punching. Materials compatible with laser drilling include mild steels, stainless steels, titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, galvanized steels, nitinol, inconel, ceramics and diamonds.

An inexpensive process, laser drilling has been made popular due to rapid prototyping and the ability to maintain tight tolerances as small as 10-20 microns. It often works in conjunction with other laser cutters to create specialized tools such as gaskets, which sometimes have holes requiring the laser drilling as well as the laser metal cutting machine that shaped it. This is just one example of how the laser cutting industry is vital to the production of the small tools that make our world run. Aesthetically, there are also secondary services available at CNC machine shops that provide laser cutting services, such as polishing, painting and anodizing.

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