Two heads better than one

This top-of-the-range TruLaser is equipped with the highly energy efficient TruDisk 6001 laser that offers highly cost efficient ratio of energy consumption per meter cut. When it is not cutting the laser automatically switches to standby mode in which it uses virtually no power. The laser delivers 3 kW of laser power per head but that doesn’t mean cutting speed is halved. It is reduced only slightly with thin sheet and virtually not at all with mild steel. As 3 kW is sufficient for the process, the cost share of the laser, per metre cut, falls by 50 per cent with the dual heads. As an alternative, the full 6 kW can also be concentrated on a single head enabling sheets up to 25 mm thick to be processed. In either case the beam is guided by fibre optic cable from the resonator to the cutting head. Another unique feature is the first-ever use of carbon fibre components in a laser cutting machine, for the cross beam. This improves the machine’s dynamics, increasing acceleration up to 25 m/s2 and a maximum simultaneous axis speed of 304 m/min. All machine axes are equipped with frictionless linear direct drives, with acceleration in X and Y 25 per cent greater than on this machine’s predecessor, and the Z-axis achieving 30 m/s2.