Prima Industries has been the major application for industrial lasers in manufacturing for the last 30 years. It is a well-established process that offers many advantages and benefits over traditional cutting methods. Laser cutting is typically high speed, repeatable and reliable, producing a very narrow and clean kerf (cut width) in a wide variety of material types and thickness. It is a process that can easily be automated by integration into flexible programmable machine tools or robots. Cutting lasers typically are CO2 or Nd:YAG, available in power levels ranging to 6 kW.