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Valve manufacturer chooses laser systems

News image17 February 2012
UK-based Fort Vale Engineering, a provider of valves and fittings for transportation in the road tanker and tank container industries, has invested in laser-based product marking solution from ES Technology

OPTIX project aims to tackle terrorist attacks

17 February 2012
European Commission-funded project OPTIX (Optical Technologies for the Identification of explosives) is developing a transportable system for the standoff detection and identification of explosives, using LIBS, Raman and IR spectroscopy

Cutting disc production kept precise with laser displacement sensors

17 February 2012
A manufacturer of carbide cutting tools for metalworking is using high precision laser displacement sensors from Micro-Epsilon to measure the width and height of cutting discs

Raman spectroscopy scanner to defeat terrorists' liquid explosives

8 February 2012
Passengers could carry liquid items larger than 100ml onto aircraft in future if a new spectroscopy based technology is deployed at airports

Precision is the shape of things to come for security key profiles

5 January 2012
German company Aumat is now using high precision laser displacement sensors to examine security key blanks' surface profiles prior to production

Black markings for Sabbath bikes with YAG laser

16 December 2011
Titanium racing bikes made by Sabbath are to get black durable markings produced by a multimode Q-switched YAG laser

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