Laser cutting has always seemed like a thing from science fiction. From Star Was to Star trek and every other movie taking place in the future lasers have been a crucial tool for describing a far tomorrow. And isn’t this tendency quite easy to explain? Cutting things with light would surely sound like magic for someone born a 100 years ago. So when did lasers stop being fiction and became reality?

A modern cutting laser can be used for many processes like engraving, marking and even drilling. But that wasn’t always the case. We can trace lasers back to 1960. When the first working concept was discovered scientist weren’t sure how to utilize the technology. It was described as “a solution looking for a problem”. The potential of the technology was obvious for not only the scientific community, but also for the general public. This was when mass media gave birth to the myth of the “death ray”.

While the broad public was amused by the science fiction image of the laser, not long after 1960 the industrial community started seeing the real potential of the technology. The first discovered process was… you guessed it – cutting. The first carbon dioxide based method for cutting was invented in 1964 at Bell Labs by the electrical engineer Kumal Patel. At the same place and in the same year but by a different engineer, the crystal laser cutting process was discovered. His name was J. E. Geusic.

After these breakthroughs the usage of lasers boomed. Multiple industries implemented them in their work process. In just thirty years lasers helped for mining, manufacturing and even sending people into space. By the 1980’s around 20 000 laser cutting machines were build and their total worth was estimated to be around 8 billion dollars.

Nowadays My Euro Steel uses Laser Cutting for production of great variety of complex shapes from sheet metal, pipes and profiles. We are capable of processing different materials with high accuracy, speed and versatility.