Fast and environment-friendly coating

The new process for extreme high-speed laser depo­si­tion weld­ing (Ehla) is a gen­uine suc­cess sto­ry: inten­sive devel­op­ment in Aachen from 2012, con­sis­tent imple­men­ta­tion and test­ing of the sys­tem tech­nol­o­gy in the Nether­lands fol­lowed by indus­tri­al imple­men­ta­tion in Chi­na. And on 21 Sep­tem­ber 2018, the process devel­oped by the Fraun­hofer Insti­tute for Laser Tech­nol­o­gy ILT in…