The CO2-Laser operates with gas as active laser medium and is still most frequently used in industrial applications. Due to its very good beam quality it is well suited for keyhole welding applications as well as laser metal forming i.e. build-up welding and laser cladding applications. Sulzer Innotec is doing business with its CO2-Laser system since 1988, assuring the state of technology by periodic refits.

CO2-Laser 200 W - 2.2 kW output power Wave length 10600 nm CW or pulse operation Gantry Robot  6 CNC-axes 3 axes translative X-Y-Z: 2.7 x 1.8 x 0.9 m 3 rotative axes A-B-C: 360°, ±90°, 360° A-axis stepless tiltable by 90° between horizontal and vertical operation Round table for up to 1.8 m part-Ø CNC-control with 5-axes simultaneous welding ability Offline programming ability Integrated contour recognition system

Applications

• Conduction welding
• Keyhole welding up to 4 mm weld depth
• Laser metal forming i.e build-up welding
• Laser cladding
• 5-axes simultaneous welding
• Laser applications on Fe-,Ni-, Co-based materials
• Particularly suitable for large part handling

Integrated Contour Recognition System

A laser welding system for build-up welding with powder is a complex machine tool. The advantages of CNC-controlled precision welding must be weighed against the setup effort necessary for the accurate programming of the system. In general, setup time is significantly greater than welding time. In the case of large-area free-form surfaces in particular, the integrated contour recognition system in the laser welding system from Sulzer Innotec helps to reduce the setup effort and thereby the setup costs, as well as improving the setup quality. Moreover, the portal robot can be used as a large digitizing system, for example, in reverse-engineering applications.

The digitizing head with a touch-sensitive tracer pin makes rapid automated digitization possible, even for complex geometrical shapes.	Once the geometry has been scanned, the tracer pin is replaced by a powder nozzle, and the build-up welding can begin.

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• Conventional welding processes and heat treatment
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