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What is Surface Preparation: Steps & Examples
By Catherine Veilleux on August 29, 2023

Whether you are coating, bonding, welding, or assembling metal parts, surface preparation is essential to ensure the high quality of your product. Failure to do proper surface preparation can lead to quality issues.

How to Do Surface Preparation for Adhesive Bonding
By Catherine Veilleux on July 26, 2023

Surface preparation is essential to ensure the success of adhesive bonding. It involves optimizing the surface of the substrate for a stronger bond with the adhesive. There are three primary aspects to surface preparation: removing contaminants, roughening the surface, and modifying the chemical composition.

Epoxy Laser Cleaning Application for Electric Motors
By Catherine Veilleux on April 12, 2023

To ensure that e-motors preserve their efficiency over time, manufacturers protect conductive parts from contaminants with epoxy coating. Laser cleaning can be used to remove epoxy before laser welding and to remove contaminants before applying epoxy, ensuring a clean surface in both cases

Wire Bonding Machines: Types, Limitations, & Laser Alternative
By Stéphane Melançon on February 14, 2023

Wire bonding machines are widely used in the aerospace, semiconductor, solar cells, microelectronics, and EV battery industries. In this article, we’ll go over the types of wire bonders, discuss their limitations, and present how laser welding is used to overcome these challenges in the automotive industry.

Laser Structuring: Applications & Benefits for Metal Surfaces
By Catherine Veilleux on January 18, 2023

In metal manufacturing, laser structuring is increasingly used to prepare surfaces for adhesive bonding and thermal spray coating, creating a surface texture that improves adhesion while removing contaminants that could interfere with it.

Fiber Laser Cleaners - The Machines Taking Over Metal Cleaning
By Guillaume Jobin on January 09, 2023

Fiber laser cleaners are becoming increasingly popular to clean metal surfaces due to their many advantages over traditional cleaning methods like sandblasting and chemical cleaning.

Surface Processing: Which Process is Best for My Application?
By Guillaume Jobin on December 12, 2022

A wide range of surface processes are used in manufacturing to improve part surfaces. They can add material layers to a surface, remove undesired materials from a surface, reshape a surface, or modify the properties of a surface. In this article, we’ll go over different types of surface processes and technologies to learn which one is good for what application.

Disadvantages of Dry Ice Blasting: Is It Worth It?
By Guillaume Jobin on November 28, 2022

While dry ice blasting is praised for its advantages, it also comes with several disadvantages. In this article, we’ll go over the different aspects of dry ice blasting to better understand when it’s worth it, and which alternatives to consider.

Plasma Cleaning vs. Laser Cleaning: What’s the Difference?
By Alex Fraser on September 10, 2022

Many manufacturers have trouble grasping the difference between laser cleaning and plasma cleaning. After all, both are non-contact processes that do not require solvents or chemicals like chemical cleaning, and they are sought after to replace abrasive techniques like sandblasting and dry ice blasting.

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