Time travel: 1985 - 1995

TRUMPF Conquers the World of the Laser

Time line

1985  TRUMPF decides to make its own CO2 laser, and the TRUMPF LASER TLF 1000 is manufactured. It has 1 kW of beam performance and is the first compact laser resonator with RF-excitation.
 
1987  

TRUMATIC L 3000 with "flying" optics (1987)
    TRUMPF introduces a further innovation in this field: the TRUMATIC L 3000, a flatbed laser cutting center with "flying" optics. The workpiece is no longer moved, and the processing head "flies" across the metal.
 
1988  Innovations in laser development that follow within the next few years make it necessary to found a new company specializing in lasers, and TRUMPF Lasertechnik GmbH is formed.


Symmetry is the key: in a square from, compact and better

 
1989  At the European Machine Tool Exhibition EMO in Hanover, the first "folded" laser is presented inside a TRUMATIC 240 LASERPRESS.

TRUMPF has 2,400 employees and sales of DM 525 million.

 
1992  TRUMPF's activities in the solid-state laser sector begin with its participation in the firm of Haas Laser GmbH in Schramberg. The company is now 100-percent owned by the TRUMPF Group.
 
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