ORLANDO, Fla., March 22, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its laser cutting technologies for manufacturing in the defense industry.

Fonon is proud to serve manufacturers in the defense industry by offering its precision metal cutting solution, the Titan FX Laser Cutting System. The Titan FX is a flatbed multipurpose fiber laser cutting system available in several sizes that offers a high-performance, cost-effective way to cut metals, including highly reflective metals.

The defense industry uses highly reflective metals across a multitude of applications, from transport and ballistics to protective gear components. Among the common metals used in military applications are titanium, aluminum, stainless steel and nickel.

Titanium alloys are used for structural components and protective panels on armored vehicles, aircraft engines, pressure tanks and missiles for their exceptional strength, light weight, anticorrosive properties and high impact resistance. Meanwhile, titanium has significant reflectivity in the infrared spectrum, which may make it a tough material to process with a laser.

Using laser cutting in manufacturing components made of highly reflective metals, which reflect most of the light rather than absorb it, presents certain challenges. Fonon offers an effective solution for this problem. Titanium is among the multitude of metals and materials that the Titan laser cutting series can process seamlessly.

Fonon’s Titan systems incorporate a back-reflection isolator that protects the source from the light reflected from the workpiece. Standout features of the Titan FX are the CleanCut technology, which leads to a smaller heat-affected zone for minimized material property alteration around the cut area; an advanced direct drive motion control platform for smoother motion and reduced vibration; and low power consumption for its class of industrial laser cutters.

Titan FX requires no optical system alignment or laser delivery system maintenance. It comes with software-controlled mechanical geometry alignment, eliminating special installation requirements. It’s a fully enclosed Class I laser, meaning no harmful radiation can escape the enclosure of the laser system.

Due to its ability to cut metals, including highly reflective metals, the Titan FX can also be used in naval applications, such as for processing marine-grade aluminum and copper alloys. It can also be used in aircraft and rocket production because of its ability to effectively work with lightweight specialty metal components. The Titan FX systems are operator and regulation friendly while guaranteeing operational excellence.

For more information about Fonon’s laser-cutting technology, please visit https://www.fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware and proprietary metal processing Intellectual Property (IP). The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized 3D metal printing systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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ORLANDO, Fla., March 15, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology (ZWLCT).
The ZWLCT, Fonon’s patented technology, is an innovative, next-generation solution ideally suited to the intricacy of cutting brittle materials like glass with no material loss and a clean edge. Whereas regular laser cutting involves melting and vaporizing a portion of the material to achieve a cut, zero width laser cutting separates the material via a controlled heating and cooling of the cut line. This means that no material is wasted, while the edges are strong and chip-free, requiring no post-processing like polishing.

This remarkably efficient technology finds use across a wide range of industries where glass and quartz components are manufactured in accordance with strict quality control measures and rigorous regulatory standards. It provides the precision critical for medical and optical devices, electronics and semiconductors. It is especially suitable for flat panel displays (FPD) used in phones and tablets, computer screens, industrial-use monitors, billboards, and control systems, among others.

Fonon’s ZWLCT achieves intricate cutting with utmost accuracy, helping manufacturers produce the smallest and most complex components.

Increases in speed, strength and quality, plus a reduction in manufacturing waste, greatly benefit brittle material component manufacturers. That is why ZWLCT technologies continue to gain momentum across various industries.

For more information about Fonon’s Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology, please visit https://fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware and proprietary metal processing IP. The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized laser cutting systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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Fonon Corporation Media Relations
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Marketing@fonon.com

ORLANDO, Fla., March 1, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its Titan FX Laser Cutting Systems for heavy equipment manufacturing.

Many of the most popular metal materials used in manufacturing heavy equipment and machine parts – aluminum, brass, and copper – are defined as highly reflective materials. Each material brings a unique combination of benefits: strength, durability, heat- and corrosion-resistance, and heat and electrical conductance. Yet fabricators who use traditional methods to process these metals often face challenges that can result in poor cut quality.

“Highly reflective material” is a term that almost all metal processing practitioners know. The term is used to define a material, the surface of which reflects 92%-98% of visible light, plus a similar portion of medium and far infrared radiation in solid form. Such materials require peak laser power for effective surface processing. Fonon Corporation’s Titan FX Laser Cutting System presents the most advanced, high-performance, reliable, cost-effective way to cut reflective metal. Titan FX lasers do not use mirrors and delicate lenses, so the reflection from metals like copper, aluminum and brass does not damage the cutting equipment. The fiber laser source incorporates a proprietary built-in back-reflection isolator (sometimes called a beam dump for reflective laser light that protects the source from back-reflections (or back-scatter) generated by the workpiece. The whole cutting process is safe and stable, without any damage to the laser source.

More important, Titan FX equipment incorporates an advanced direct drive motion system, CleanCut technology and adaptive thin-to-thick fiber laser beam shaping, which benefit businesses that need to precisely cut highly reflective metals at production-level speed, balancing high acceleration, cut speeds and positioning with maximum accuracy. For common materials processing, they achieve speeds three to four times faster than CO2 lasers of equal wattage.

Traditional flatbed laser cutting systems rely on rack and pinion, ball screws, or belt drives to traverse the cutting head face limitations common to all mechanical, high-contact systems, including wear and tear of the gears, reduced belt tension over time and damage from the inevitable accretion of contaminants, grit and dust generated by normal production conditions. Fonon’s Direct Drive Motion System lifts the cutting head smoothly and quickly across the working surface area. Without ball screws, belts, or gears to deteriorate or break down, Fonon’s Titan FX delivers smoother motion, higher cutting head acceleration and speed, less stress and vibration on the carriage frame, a lower system weight and decreased maintenance requirements.

Conventional laser cutting methods create an area of discoloration, weakening and stressing the material on either side of a cut associated with an excessive heat affected zone. CleanCut technology reduces or eliminates the heat affected zone by producing a beam narrower and more precise than any conventional laser.

Adaptive thin-to thick beam shaping technology automatically adjusts the laser beam’s properties to process a wide range of material thicknesses. This capability takes advantage of Fonon’s deep understanding of the reflective characteristics of any given material when it reaches the temperature at which it transitions from a solid to a liquid or gas, driving more economical operation, superior edge quality on thick plates and high-speed cutting of thin materials.

Heavy equipment and machine part manufacturers that make use of Fonon’s Titan FX Series typically experience a 10%-30% increase in speed and accuracy and a 10%-30% decrease in kerf loss over similar systems. They are also operator- and regulation-friendly and environmentally responsible, guaranteeing operational excellence, which aids their customers’ pursuit of sustainable market growth. For these reasons, Fonon’s Laser Cutting Technology continues to gain momentum for this and other industries working with highly reflective metals.

For more information about Fonon Corporation’s Laser Cutting Technology for highly reflective metals, please visit https://fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware, and proprietary metal processing IP. The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized 3D metal printing systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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Fonon Corporation Media Relations
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Marketing@fonon.com

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 09, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its Laser Marking technologies in food and beverage (F&B) industries.

Laser marking machines are extremely useful during food and beverage manufacturing. To create lot numbers, expiration codes, and other important markings on product packaging, food and beverage processing plants often install laser marking machines on their assembly lines.

Automated, laser marking systems increase productivity while streamlining tracking, dating, and other inventory management processes. They also enhance quality control and process improvement. By assigning an identification to each component at the beginning of the production line, code readers can track parts at every manufacturing stage and even after.

In the Food and Beverage sector, components and finished products need to be fully traceable, not only for safety but also for technical reasons. Many F&B manufacturers use unique, forgery-proof, and easy-to-read data matrix codes and alphanumeric inscriptions in their processes. Fonon laser markers can immortalize these important codes on almost any material, to be used in any environment.

Fonon Corporation’s laser marking technologies are cost-effective, efficient, accurate, permanent, non-destructive, and sanitary for marked surfaces, as well as operator-, and regulation-friendly. Fonon marking processes are also environmentally responsible, guaranteeing both operational excellence and ecological integrity, which aids their customers’ pursuit of sustainable market growth. Traditional marking systems simply cannot compete.

Traditional laser markers and integrated machines have typically been restricted to a flat planar field of view, which may be adjusted for inclined planes or cylindrical surfaces by rotating and moving the object during marking. However, in response to manufacturing evolution, Fonon’s laser marking systems encompass more complex-shapes, and have been integrated into programmed robotics or advanced 5-axis machines.

Laser marking is used across various industries, able to create permanent marks on multiple surfaces through laser etching, engraving, or annealing. Manufacturers in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics, machine tools, packaging, and aerospace sectors. Laser marking has also seen increased popularity in areas dealing with flat panel displays, optical devices, refractory materials, chemical apparatuses, and semiconductors.

Companies who utilize Fonon laser marking processes benefit from reduced production and handling damage at the factory and minimized product failures in the field. Increases in speed, strength, and quality, plus a reduction in manufacturing waste, allow manufacturers to cut production time and costs, which is yet another reason this technology continues to gain momentum in so many industries.

Every industry that has regulated or specific manufacturing and inventory management processes can benefit from installing laser marking systems in their facilities. The Laser Marking Market size is estimated at USD 3.91 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 5.18 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 5.80% during the forecast period (2024-2029). Source: https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/laser-marking-market

For more information about Fonon Corporation’s Laser Marking Technology, please visit https://fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware, and proprietary metal processing IP. The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized 3D metal printing systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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Fonon Corporation Media Relations
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Marketing@fonon.com

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 24, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its Quartz Laser Welding Technology (QLWT).

This innovative technology is used to manufacture quartz glass for optical devices, lighting systems, refractory materials and chemical apparatuses. Fonon’s patented Quartz Laser Welding Technology makes it possible to weld through quartz glass on a monolithic basis. This has far-reaching implications for the design and manufacturing of any device that uses quartz glass as a fundamental component of its mechanism. 

These include optical telescopes, mirrors and other astrophysical devices for magnifying distant celestial objects and quartz glass cuvettes for full-visible-range measurements in liquid laser applications, to name only a couple. Thanks to Fonon’s technology, quartz glass structures can now be built to virtually any size, with monolithic joints that allow them to be used where wide transparency range and superior light transmittance are required, as in prisms, lenses, beam splitters, polarizers, mirrors and windows. QLWT joints also allow quartz glass structures to function as tunable circuits used in telecommunication and radio frequency communication systems, pressure sensors, accelerometers, and filters.

Traditional methods based on gas or conventional laser technology are limited to only 2mm in weld thickness, after which they cause such component distortion that the part becomes unacceptable for required performance parameters. Fonon Corp’s technology allows operators to weld joints up to 100mm deep and with welding characteristics like those of monolithic quartz glass. Using this cutting-edge technology, it is possible to form welds with minimum stress in the weld zone without deformation normally present in such a process. The result is greater strength and a higher melting point compared to ordinary glass.

Manufacturers and consumers who utilize QLWT processes benefit from higher material strength as the technology reduces production and handling damage at the factory while reducing product failures in the field. Increases in speed, strength and quality, plus a reduction in manufacturing waste, allow manufacturers to cut production time and costs, which is why the technology continues to gain momentum in the aerospace and astrophysical industries. The technology has also seen increased popularity in areas dealing with flat panel displays, optical devices, refractory materials, chemical apparatuses, semiconductors and electronic manufacturing.

For more information about Fonon Corporation’s Quartz Laser Welding Technology, please visit https://fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware and proprietary metal processing IP. The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized 3D metal printing systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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Fonon Corporation Media Relations 
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Marketing@fonon.com

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 10, 2024 – Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and additive manufacturing, highlights applications for its 3D Laser Glass Cutting Systems in glass manufacturing industries.

Fonon’s patented 3D Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology (ZWLCT) is an innovative, next-generation technology. Demand for these systems has steadily increased as new flat panel display, semiconductor and electronic manufacturing facilities continue to emerge globally to support market growth and cost reduction initiatives.

ZWLCT has been optimized for thin-glass applications up to 1.0mm. The ZWLCT process splits materials at the molecular level with tremendous speed while eliminating material loss, chips, lateral cracks, protrusions, hooks, flares, or any form of contaminants. 

Unlike conventional mechanical scribe methods, ZWLCT totally eliminates surface degradation and yield loss due to particulate damages caused by undesirable contaminants. The result is excellent surface integrity of the cut surface with no cracks or chips.

At the molecular level, Fonon’s patented ZWLCT generates a controlled micro-crack to any selectable depth through glass (and other brittle materials) at a controlled, optimized angle to the surface of the material. By controlling the laser beam’s energy distribution under a proprietary temperature stress profile, the process creates scribe lines in a prescribed manner with no molecules leaving the surface of the glass.

ZWLCT incorporates controlled heating with the correct power density profile, followed by glass surface cooling. This creates glass substrate intermolecular separation to a predetermined depth, dramatically improving substrate separation and overall quality. The process is easily adaptable to glass thickness changes during production. Other advantages of 3D ZWLCT include its ability to process unlimited component sizes up to Gen-10 and higher.

Manufacturers and consumers who utilize ZWLCT technology benefit from higher material strength as the tech reduces production and handling damage at the factory while reducing premature latent product failures in the field due to shock. Increases in speed, strength and quality, plus reduction in manufacturing waste, allow manufacturers to cut production time and costs, which is why the technology continues to gain momentum in the flat panel display, semiconductor and electronic manufacturing areas.

For more information about Fonon’s 3D Zero Width Laser Cutting Systems, please visit https://fonon.com.

About Fonon Corporation
Fonon Corporation is a diversified industrial laser equipment company with a continuously growing umbrella of building-block technologies supported by patents, licenses, next-generation hardware, and proprietary metal processing IP. The company is dedicated to advancing industrial technology and designing specialized 3D metal printing systems for manufacturing purposes, representing the fastest path to Manufacturing Readiness Level 10.

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Fonon Corporation Media Relations
1 (844) 366-6624
Marketing@fonon.com