Cerlase, is a limited Company founded in 1998 in Limoges currently located on the
ESTER Technopolis site, and specialized in the design of special machines integrating the lasers. Its activity is based on a new patented technology of laser sintering (Process and device for marking objects sintered mineral powders on ceramic, glass and metal EP1040017,B1 - WO9929519). The current buildings extend on 800m² and the enlarging planned for 2008 will allows obtaining 2000m². The machines in operation worldwide as Japan, United States, UAE, South Africa, China, Mexico etc. are now more than 50. Cerlase sales turnover is of 1.7M€ with 85% providing from export sales with a team of 14 people.
The partnerships developed by Cerlase with the
ENSCI, laboratory
XLIM,
Ferro and the
European Center of Ceramics make possible fast development of new innovating projects by associating the best competences.
Advantages of laser thermal treatment
- Low consumption of energy
- Marking on complex surfaces thanks to a process without contact possibility of modification of surface
- Flexibility due to data-processing piloting offering the possibility of a single treatment or mass-production
- Possibility of a local thermal treatment
- Local sintering allowing links between different materials
Possible applications of laser thermal treatment
- Inalterable marking by laser sintering of ceramic powder
- Inalterable traceability by barcode or datamatrix
- Welding glass-ceramic, ceramic-metal…
- Nanolayer thermal treatment
- Sintering of conductive metal lines
- Counterfeit fight (magnetic code, UV pigment…)
- Dielectric or thermal barrier by addition of a refractory material
- Surfacing by material injection nozzle
- Realization of antislip surface
