Precision Laser Welding Equipment
Optimise YOUR Manufacturing with High-Performance Laser Welding Systems
We provide specialised laser welding equipment tailored to your manufacturing needs in the UK.
Whether you require handheld units or fully automated systems, our laser welding systems are designed to enhance precision, efficiency, and reliability in your production process.
WELDING CHALLENGES
Enhancing Efficiency and Precision in Modern Welding
Production delays, material waste, increased labor costs, and challenges in welding certain materials or achieving precise weld characteristics can all impact efficiency. These issues affect profitability, hinder innovation, and limit growth opportunities.
Laser welding provides a modern solution, offering unmatched precision, speed, and versatility. With the ability to produce clean, strong welds across diverse materials—and the option for automation—laser welding can significantly boost production efficiency and elevate product quality.
High-Quality and Cost-Efficient Laser Welders
Our laser welding systems are proudly manufactured by Diodela, a leading Lithuanian company at the forefront of advanced laser technology in the European Union. Lithuania’s status as a growing tech hub ensures that we deliver top-tier, innovative equipment while adhering to strict EU standards.
By leveraging Lithuania’s competitive pricing, we offer exceptional value—world-class quality without the high costs, making our laser welders a smart, cost-effective choice for your manufacturing needs.
Advantages of Laser welding
Minimal Physical Distortion: Laser welding effectively avoids thermal and physical distortion, particularly beneficial when joining thin large sheets, resulting in a pristine end product without the need for additional processing.
Low Welding Oxidation: By providing precise heat input to the desired area, laser welding ensures narrow full penetration welds, resulting in aesthetically pleasing final results with minimal welding oxidation.
High Speed: Laser welding boasts remarkable efficiency, surpassing traditional methods such as MIG and TIG welding by more than 5 and 10 times, respectively.
Reliability: The high-quality Lithuanian industrial design ensures durability and reliability.
Complex Joint Creation: Our laser technology enables the creation of intricate joints with ease, that are not achievable with traditional welding techniques.
Low Heat Application: Laser welding employs a low-heat application, minimizing damage to components or materials during the welding process.
High-Strength Welds: Laser welding produces welds that boast both consistency and high strength, ensuring the integrity of the joint. Laser welds can be monolithic without filler metal.
Excellent Mechanical Properties: Laser welding preserves the material’s structural properties, ensuring that the welded components retain their original mechanical characteristics.
Ultimate Precision: Laser welding offers unparalleled accuracy, even for users without a welding background, due to the absence of laser light reflection, easy manipulation, and precise heat input to the targeted area.
Capability for Long and Wide Sheets: Our laser welding systems enable the welding of sheets with different steel grades and dimensions, facilitating versatile application across various projects.
Cost-Efficient Solution: OptoWeld’s laser welding systems consume 40% less electricity than average MIG machines when welding materials like 3 mm stainless steel, offering significant cost savings.
Sustainability: Our laser welding systems are designed to be energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, aligning with sustainable manufacturing practices.
Smart and easy use: With an integrated touch screen interface, our laser welding systems enable users to save welding parameters for future use, ensuring consistent results and saving valuable preparation time.
Unmatched Precision
Laser welding delivers superior accuracy and consistency, resulting in flawless welds and reduced rework, enhancing the overall quality of your product.
What metals can you weld?
Laser welding offers exceptional versatility, capable of joining a wide range of metals. Explore our dedicated page to discover the specific metals we can weld with precision and efficiency.
Carbon Steel
Achieve strong, precise welds with minimal distortion. Ideal for structural components and applications requiring high strength.
Aluminium
Create lightweight, durable joints. Suitable for aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronics industries.
Stainless Steel
Produce clean, corrosion-resistant welds. Perfect for food processing, medical equipment, and marine applications.
Titanium
Laser welding is particularly suited for titanium due to its ability to produce high-quality welds with minimal contamination.
Frequently Asked Questions
A laser welding machine employs a high-power laser beam to precisely melt and fuse materials at the weld point. This technology offers superior speed and accuracy, significantly reducing distortion. Its ability to achieve fine details and consistent results makes it particularly effective for demanding industrial applications.
Laser welding is designed with safety in mind. The process uses a focused laser beam in a controlled environment, requiring operators to wear protective gear and follow strict protocols. Safety features like interlocks and sensors prevent accidents by automatically shutting down the system if necessary. Proper ventilation manages fumes, and thorough training ensures safe handling and emergency response.
Laser welding can reach a speed of 5 m/min, almost no processing is required after welding, precise seams, the thermal effect occurs only at the welding seam (the edges of the metal do not heat up), there is no metal deformation (even 1 mm thick metal sheets do not deform after welding ), lower electricity consumption.
Yes, special training is recommended to operate a laser welding machine effectively. Operators should be familiar with machine settings, safety protocols, and maintenance procedures for optimal performance and safety. At Optoweld, we provide comprehensive training and support to ensure you and your team are well-prepared to use our equipment efficiently.
The laser welding machine allows you to weld stainless steel, aluminum, ferrous metal. For welding copper and other non-ferrous metals, a modified laser source with a wavelength of 532 nm is required.
Laser welding systems can work 24/7. OptoWeld laser welders will work for approximately 10 years (90 000 working hours).
Our laser systems can be used both manually and with a robotic arm.
The laser welding machine allows you to save the parameters, so every time you select them, you will get the same result. On average, the operator is able to maintain the same quality of welding during welding with a laser machine within a week, when, for example, it often takes years to develop the skills for high-quality welding with standard methods.
When the distance between the materials to be welded is up to 100 um, then the additional wire is not needed, the welding seam is monolithic. During laser welding, an additional wire is used at a distance of more than 100 um between the materials to be welded.
The radiation of the laser welding system has no negative effects on human skin and acts like normal light. However, it can damage the eyes, therefore, it is necessary to use the protective measures recommended by OptoWeld (wear special safety glasses). Source: https://www.fda.gov
Technical maintenance of OptoWeld’s laser welding machine: the system uses electricity and inert gas (15-20 l/min), the cooling system requires distilled water (recommended to be changed every 6 months), lens cleaning (once a week. Cleaning process is simple as the principle is similar to cleaning glasses), lens replacement after they wear out(on average every 1-2 months, depending on use and maintenance quality), replacement of nozzles on demand.
15 – 20 l/min Argon gas is used during laser welding.
When using a laser welding machine, safety glasses must be worn. If the room is not ventilated, extraction equipment is necessary. To ensure maximum safety, a 9 sq.m. area must be isolated where laser welding will take place. This can be a closed room or an area covered by curtains that keep laser radiation out. It must be ensured that only people with safety glasses can enter this area, thus warning signs or warning tape must be used. For any questions regarding a safe working environment, contact us via lukas@optowelduk.com