Applications News

Plastic welding in automotive industry

9 March 2010
Beam shaping systems from Limo have been used to boost the efficiency of plastics welding processes significantly, and have been used by a Tier 1 parts manufacturer in the automotive industry

Fusion research facility uses six giant lenses

9 March 2010
Six huge lenses are being used to measure plasma density and temperatures up to 23 million degrees C at 130 different locations inside the MegaAmp Spherical Tokomak (MAST) experiment at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire

US naval air division turns to spectrometry

2 March 2010
The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has contracted McPherson for the design and production of a spectral test, calibration, and light delivery system

Portable FTIR analysis used to determine diesel purity

1 March 2010
A2 Technologies has announced that its PAL and iPAL portable FTIR analysers are being used for measuring the biodiesel fatty-acid methyl ester content (per cent FAME) in diesel fuels

PSA Peugeot Citroen choses TruDisk

26 February 2010
Trumpf has announced that over the next two years, PSA Peugeot Citro�n will be equipping its production sites with additional, next-generation TruDisk disk lasers