26/10/2003
JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik GmbH creates the 1st Jenoptik Laser Forum

A new JENOPTIK technology allows textile materials to be weakened by laser. The company JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik GmbH, represented in Spain and Portugal by IDASA, has organized the 1st JENOPTIK Laser Forum.Customers, users and specialists in the laser machining of materials met on 1 October at JENOPTIK's Application Centre for Customers.

JENOPTIK's laser experts presented the latest development and most recent applications in six workshops. The technologies and the laser machines could be examined and tried out at the Application Centre for Customers. Eleven different laser machines for machining non-metallic materials could be found in more than 1,000 m² to demonstrate to customers the suitability of lasers as a tool for specific applications. Around 200 visitors from industry and research attended the 1st JENOPTIK Laser Forum. JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik customers were given specific information about the current position of laser machining technologies. Laser machines from the VOTAN product range, which can be used for cutting, welding, perforating and ablating the surface of non-metallic materials, are supplied throughout the world by this company in the JENOPTIK Group, with the co-operation of IDASA in the Iberian peninsula market. The IDASA-JENOPTIKgroup has the capacity to meet any industrial cutting need thanks to blending the knowledge and experience of both companies, always applying the best solution to the customer's needs.

Latest development: JENOPTIK works textile materials using lasers.

Laser machining of textile materials was shown to a wide audience for the first time at Laser-Forum. Airbags are increasingly being fitted in car doors and seats, hidden behind a textile covering. The textile material raises specific problems in the opening areas. Until now, the opening areas have had special seams, which are costly to manufacture and impose certain limits on the design. Now, the opening areas can be defined by laser, as in the plastic materials for the instrument panels.

he specific problem raised in working with textile materials is the "knit" or weave of the material, which allows the light to pass with irregular intensity. With the VOTAN (Textil) machine,JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik has managed to develop, to the point of serial production, laser equipment that weakens textile materials on their reverse side, so that they open in predefined areas. In contrast, the face of the material remains intact. This new technology has been applied for the first time in the new BMW series "5" model.

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