On June 14, Linde, the world's leading industrial gas and engineering company, announced that its global laser R&D center has officially started operations in Shanghai. This marks the era of high-power laser industrial applications, which has opened the era of global technological innovation led by Chinese R&D teams. The global laser R&D center is located in the Linde China R&D Center in Jinqiao, Pudong, Shanghai, and will focus on supporting the development of application technology in the laser field in China and the Asia Pacific market in the future. It also helps the laser application industry to promote the efficiency improvement and quality optimization of industries such as sheet metal processing, and further promotes excellent application practices to the world.

In recent years, with the upgrading of China's modern manufacturing industry, high-power laser technology, as an advanced and mature processing technology, has been promoted and applied in various industries. Compared with traditional sheet metal processing methods, laser cutting and welding have the advantages of high quality, high efficiency and high precision. In these applications, industrial gases are critical to the efficiency and quality of processing and equipment performance during laser cutting and welding.

As one of the world's largest industrial gas and engineering companies, Linde is able to provide high-purity, high-pressure industrial gases that meet process requirements for high-power laser processing in the field of industrial gases. In addition, Linde has introduced an advanced "Microbulk" small tank gas delivery system for the laser processing industry. Relying on this innovative gas supply method, Linde can help customers effectively reduce costs and reduce the workload of on-site management, which is widely recognized by the industry.

Relying on the Linde Global Laser R&D Center, which is in operation, Linde can be based on an experimental platform such as a multi-functional laser device. Further explore the technical solutions to improve the laser cutting and welding process on the existing basis, and help our customers to continuously improve the process efficiency. For example, around this advanced experimental platform, Linde can simulate different laser application scenarios and working conditions, continuously optimize the process parameters of cutting and welding, improve the effect and quality of cutting and welding, and achieve productivity.

On the same day, dozens of customers and end users from the laser cutting equipment industry attended the unveiling ceremony of the Linde Global Laser R&D Center and were invited to participate in professional technical seminars. During the event, the guests listened to Linde technical experts' introduction to the application technology of manufacturing industry, laser welding and cutting, and also visited the live demonstration of the laser processing technology with great interest.