High power fiber laser technique plays an important role in industrial manufacturing, medical, energy exploration, military, aerospace, metallurgy and s on. It is widely used in laser welding, laser cutting, laser micromachining, laser marking, etc. Nowadays, the breakthrough of 10+ KW high power fiber laser helps make the laser market thrive. As the domestic market share of high power fiber laser increases, domestic laser manufacturers like Raycus and MAX have launched 12KW, 15KW and 25KW high power fiber lasers in the past few years.
In the past, domestic high power laser cutting market used to be taken up by 2-6KW medium-low power fiber lasers. People generally thought that 6KW fiber laser could meet the need of most of the industrial materials cutting. However,as the domestic laser market has developed in the past two years, the power of fiber laser cutting machine has also increased. From 10KW to 20KW to 25KW, more and more 10+KW fiber laser cutting machines were promoted. 10+KW fiber laser is expected to become the most productive tool in the laser cutting field with powerful cutting ability and excellent processing efficiency.
The 10+KW fiber laser cutting technique helps open the market of processing 30+mm thick metal. In the future, domestic laser manufacturers will continue to fight for the share of this market. However, this market has its own limitation. 10+KW fiber laser can only be applied in some special industries and military area. In addition, huge cost. It is said that one unit of 10+KW fiber laser cutting machine can cost more than 3.5 million RMB, which makes many clients hesitate.
However, the trend that laser cutting machine is gradually replacing mechanical punch press remains unchanged. As the medium-small laser cutting machines become cheaper and cheaper, many users now can afford to buy them. This increases the number of factories that provide laser cutting service. But what comes with this is the lower paid problem for the work piece that is cut. Therefore, factory owners need to improve the production efficiency and they are forced to purchase high power fiber laser cutting machines with more efficiency and more productivity so that they can have a little profit.
As laser applications are limited in a few industries and many new applications haven’t been discovered. This makes the competition in this segmented market of matured technology turn white-hot. It’s quite hard to search for differentiation and profit in this circumstance. Therefore, some manufacturers can only choose to launch higher power fiber laser cutter to prove their abilities. As the laser cutting machine has higher power, it needs to be equipped with water cooling chiller that can meet the related cooling need. As we know, the stability of water cooling chiller has huge affect on the lifespan of the laser and the processing performance of the laser cutting machine. With the demand of 10+kw fiber lasers grows, the demand of laser cooling chiller will also increase.
S&A Teyu has been dedicating to providing laser cooling solutions suitable for cooling 500W-20000W fiber lasers. Some of the high power chiller model can even support Modbus-485 communication protocol, which can realize the communication between the laser system and the chillers. Find out the detailed fiber laser cooling solutions provided by S&A Teyu at https://www.teyuchiller.com/fiber-laser-chillers_c2
