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IPG Photonics Launches LightWELD™, Revolutionary Handheld Laser Welding System
IPG Enters Handheld Welding Market to Provide Fabricators a More Simple and Flexible Solution OXFORD, Mass., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPG Photonics
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[{"type":"text","content":"IPG Enters Handheld Welding Market to Provide Fabricators a More Simple and Flexible Solution\nOXFORD, Mass., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPG Photonics Corporation, the leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, today announced the launch of LightWELD, a new handheld laser welding system. The LightWELD product line enables fabricators to benefit from the greater flexibility, precision and ease of use enabled by laser-based solutions over traditional welding products.\n Designed and built with patented and patent pending IPG fiber laser technologies, LightWELD represents a paradigm shift from all other handheld laser welders available due to its extremely small size and weight, and unique air-cooling. This groundbreaking portability is realized from the same continuous innovations by IPG that increased laser output powers and decreased form factors year-over-year. Compared with traditional MIG and TIG welders, LightWELD enables dramatically faster welding, is easier to learn and operate, and provides consistent, high-quality results across a wide range of materials and thicknesses with low heat input and aesthetic finishes with minimal or no filler wire. “The LightWELD handheld laser welding system is another example of revolutionary fiber laser innovation for which IPG is renowned,” said Trevor Ness, SVP Worldwide Sales. “This is the first truly functional and portable laser welder that brings superior laser technology to the hand welding market for the first time in history.” Simple controls, including 74 stored preset and user-defined process parameters, allow novice welders to be trained and welding in a matter of hours, reducing labor costs while increasing quality, consistency and productivity. Experienced users of traditional welding methods such as MIG and TIG will benefit from the more rapid and flexible processing capabilities of LightWELD, which welds thick, thin and reflective metals with minimal distortion, deformation, undercut or burn-through. Unlike traditional methods, welding fixtures are simpler or not needed, metals do not need to be pre-brushed or ground completely clean, and even novices can reliably weld materials with dissimilar thicknesses and high/low electrical conductivity. In addition, the heat-affected zone is minimized, as is the need for traditional post-processing grinding or polishin...