Micro-cutting and Drilling for Spinneret Manufacture

Laser micro-machining of extrusion nozzles and spinnerettes is emerging as the manufacturing method of choice for today’s modern fibres and textiles.

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· High quality tapered holes down to 30 μm diameter
· Hard materials include ceramics, metals and diamond
· Very fine slot cutting – down to 10 μm kerf
· Fast and precise
· Very low thermal damage
· Complex shapes with soft tooling
· Smooth wall finish with sharp edges.

The small spot of highly focused energy and short exposure of a pulsed laser introduces very little heat to the material. The visible and UV wavelengths used allow very high quality results in a full range of materials, including super hard diamond and ceramics.

The combination of high versatility, precision and speed offered by Oxford Lasers’ visible and ultra violet machining systems, allows previously impossible geometries and feature sizes to be manufactured in affordable timescales.

Whether the requirement is for a complicated cut shape or for a high precision tapered hole, Oxford Lasers’ experience and technology will give you the results to make high quality and innovative new designs.