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Industry Updates Highlights 2008 p4 of 23:

• FABTECH/AWS Welding Show a resounding success
  Based on wide ranging interviews with companies exhibiting industrial laser products and services, we've concluded that FABTECH/AWS Welding Show was a resounding success.
• Manufacturers, academics to present at IEEE/LEOS program this week
  At this week's Photonex 08, leading laser system manufacturers and university academics will take part in a high level seminar program on High Power Diode Lasers and Systems. Representatives from Alcatel Thales III-V Labs (France), Jenoptik (Germany), Intense and GSI Lasers, will be joined by academics from Cambridge, Glasgow, and Nottingham universities.
• Bystronic Canada Ltd. holds opening ceremony
  Bystronic held a grand opening ceremony for its newest company, Bystronic Canada Ltd. on September 17, 2008. Located in Mississauga, Ontario, the new company is part of Bystronic's overall strategy for North America.
• PhotoMachining hires new applications scientist
  PhotoMachining Inc., Pelham, NH, has announced that it has added a well-known laser scientist, Dr. Francis (Bo) Burns, to its staff.
• Trumpf assumes control of SPI Lasers
  Laser and machine-tool manufacturer Trumpf (Ditzingen, Germany) has assumed control of SPI Lasers (Southampton, England) effective October 7, 2008. The bid submitted by Trumpf became effective after shareholders of SPI Lasers approved the sale of more than 90% of the company's shares to Trumpf.
• VIDEO: Tamarack high-speed laser ablation process patterns biochips
  Tamarack Scientific Company (Corona, CA) has developed a laser ablation system that directly patterns biochip sensors in a thin layer of metal on polyimide. The video shows a 40 mm x 10 mm part being ablated in a thin layer of copper on polyimide, showing slow ramp-up in speed to a rate of over 150 parts per second.
• FABTECH, Day 2: Optimistic mood continues
  Day two at FABTECH proved to be as positive as day one. More than 17,000 attendees passed through the doors and the general attitude reported to us by a substantial number of industry suppliers we interviewed was that these people were in a buying mood.
• VIDEO: Report from Day 1 of FABTECH 2008
  The FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show 2008 opened today in Las Vegas, and ILS Publisher and Editor-in-Chief David Belforte reports on how it's going in this exclusive video from the event floor. See Fabtech 2008: Day 1 to view the video.
• DILAS Diodenlaser forms new industrial laser business unit
  Laser manufacturer DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH (Mainz, Germany) has formed a new business unit, DILAS Industrial Laser Systems. The independent business unit within DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH will focus on developing and manufacturing turnkey diode laser systems, driven by the success of its COMPACT Series fiber-coupled systems with power levels up to 500 W.
• 2008 Innovationspreis winners receive awards
  Winners of the 2008 Berthold Leibinger Foundation Innovation Prize received their awards last month during a standing-room-only ceremony at Trumpf headquarters in Ditzingen, Germany. For 2008, the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung presented a total of four awards and a "special prize."

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