Choosing The Right Laser for You

Laser cutting process is an invisible beam of light instead of the traditional mechanical knife, with high precision, fast cutting, not limited to the cutting pattern limitations, automatic layout to save materials, smooth incision, low processing costs and other characteristics, will gradually improve or replace the traditional metal cutting process equipment.

First, the mechanical part of the laser cutter head and the workpiece without contact, in the work will not cause scratches on the surface of the workpiece; laser cutting speed, smooth and flat kerf, generally without subsequent processing; cutting heat-affected zone is small, plate deformation is small, the slit is narrow (0.1mm ~ 0.3mm).

No mechanical stress on the cut, no shear burr; high processing accuracy, good repeatability, no damage to the surface of the material; CNC programming, can be processed for any planar surface, can be a large format of the whole plate cutting, no need to open the mold, economical and time-saving.

Second, the current market application direction of laser cutting equipment mainly has the following three categories:

The first category is used for decoration, advertising, lighting, kitchenware, thin sheet metal parts, electrical cabinets, elevator panels, engineering panels, high and low switchgear processing materials, such materials are generally thin, the thickness of 1-5mm stainless steel plate material, with medium power laser cutting machine can be cut, this type of material cutting can be considered to buy a yag laser cutting machine or 500W fiber laser cutting machine.

The second category is to cut plastic (polymer), rubber, wood, paper products, leather and natural or synthetic organic material materials, because these items are not metal products, the laser absorption is not the same, so this type of material is best to use CO2 laser cutting machine for cutting.

The third category is the thickness of 8-20mm mild steel and 12mm stainless steel, this type of material needs to use high power laser cutting machine, in order to quickly and instantly cut, you can consider purchasing a high-power fiber laser cutting machine or high-power CO2 laser cutting machine.

Therefore, we are in the choice of laser equipment, not only according to the characteristics of their products and materials, but also to consider the laser equipment performance, so that we can find the laser equipment suitable for their industry products.