Laserprocessing - Arnold Gruppe

Target applicaon
Thermal glass tube
processing with laser beam
Labglass:
Lamp glass:
joining, forming, cung
joining
For the first me in public - at the occasion of the ACHEMA 2012 - the Arnold Group presented a compact manufacturing
cell for joining, forming and cung glass tubes via laser beam. As a worldwide leading manufacturer of
thermal glass processing machines for the laboratory and special glass industry we are offering our customers, who
are interested in high technology, an innovave alternave for the usually used gas burners.
Solarthermics: joining
ARNOLD construcon system
The laser excels by short processing mes and a high reproducibility of heang process. High producon quality and
very good possibility to automate the glass fabricaon do not exclusively influence posively the producon but
also lower costs considerably. The process data we have gathered during a mul-year lasng research programme
for joining glass tubes via laser done in collaboraon with the laser centre in Hannover (LZH) have proven an enormous
raise in capacity of up to 75%.
The intelligent sensor technology and process control, developed by Arnold, guarantees a stable process with minimum
gap tolerances – for instance by automated posioning of each single workpiece in the joining area, even in
case of producon tolerances of the workpieces.
Standardized modular construcon system
for ARNOLD glass processing machines.
laser lathe forming tools
Our cell concepts are based on our standardized modular
construcon system for glass processing machines.
Upon request the basic machines can be supplied
with respecve forming tools, automaon concepts
for automac loading and unloading of machines and
with the laser. There are radiaon sources of laser
units available with a capacity range of 400 W up to
4.0 kW.
automaon components