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Laureen Belleville
Editor
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Safe travels
Last night I traveled (in ‘real’ time) to the very interesting meeting of the Laser Institute of America’s Northeast Regional Chapter, where I was joined by nearly 70 colleagues for a presentation by
Ronald Mallett, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut and a noted lecturer and author on the subject of time travel. In fact, his time travel research has been featured in a special on the Learning Channel called “The World’s First Time Machine,” and he has written a book on the subject, “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.”
The interesting connection between Professor Mallett and yesterday’s assembled audience is that he is actively involved in researching circulating, high-power laser light (ring lasers) and its potential applications to time travel. Of specific interest to Industrial Laser Solutions is his early experience in work for Pratt & Whitney in applying industrial lasers to drilling holes in turbine blades—a topic quite familiar to our readers.
Kudos to the chapter organizers for delivering a meeting that was both interesting and thought provoking and that stimulated a fair amount of energy among attendees. Other regional chapters should take note.
Laureen Belleville
ILS e-newsletter editor
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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TRUMPF participates in Science Tunnel
For the first time, the TRUMPF Group and the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung are participating in the Max Planck Society’s “Science Tunnel.” Their contribution is an exhibit showing what industrial laser technology is capable of today. In the presence of EU Commissioner Janez Potocnik and Dr. Anette Schavan, German Minister of Education and Research, the expanded exhibition opened on March 7 in the course of the EU Conference “Today is the Future.”
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IPG Photonics reports growth in Q4
IPG Photonics has reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006. The company completed its initial public offering of common stock in December. Revenue increased by 23 percent to $42.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2006 from $34.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2005. For the full year, revenue increased by 49 percent to $143.2 million for 2006 from $96.4 million for 2005.
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Barcodes for secondary packaging
DataLase has announced that its DataLase process delivers high-resolution, consistently verifiable barcodes onto secondary packaging quickly and efficiently.
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Top distributors honored
Continuous success was the theme at Mazak Optonics’s annual sales appreciation banquet honoring its top-selling distributor companies and their top-selling individual salesmen for 2006. Many of those honored are the leading performers year after year.
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Record growth for Powerlase
Powerlase Ltd. announced record turnover for the financial year ending December 31, 2006. Following growth in 2005 of 233 percent, turnover has increased 400 percent in the last year, from £2.4 million to £9.5 million.
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Synova to license technology
A strategic business model set forth by Synova allows select partners to license its proprietary Laser MicroJet technology.
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Precitec appoints Australian distributor
Precitec has named Industrial Laser Services as sole Australian distributor for its range of laser heads for cutting, welding, and cladding and monitoring systems for use on both CO2 and Nd:YAG laser systems.
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