With over 220 participants, the Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting organised by Photonics21 took place in Brussels on May 15–16, 2025, bringing together leaders from science, industry and politics. This year's Annual Meeting had a strong focus on ensuring the continued representation of photonics in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). In her...

On 14 May 2025, the spring meeting of the VDMA Working Group ‘Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing’ took place at Weil Technology in Müllheim in the Markgräflerland region. Host Florian Weil, CEO of Weil Technology, and Nikolas Meyer, Head of Sales and Industry Management and member of the working group's executive committee, welcomed the partic...

Inter Expo Consult GmbH, in cooperation with VDMA Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), is pleased to announce the official German Pavilion at LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA 2025. The trade fair will take place from 17th to 19th September 2025 at the Bangalore Inte...

Photonics West, one of the world's most important trade fairs for optics and photonics, took place from 28 to 30 January 2025 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. For the first time, the German Pavilion was applied for by VDMA Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing together with Spectaris, which represented an important step for the m...

From 31 March to 4 April 2025, the business development trip organised by the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce (AHK Schweiz) in cooperation with the VDMA Working Group Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing and the VDMA Quantum Technology and Photonics Forum offers German SMEs in the photonics and optics industry the opportunity to immerse themselv...

From September 15 to 19, 2024, the 13th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2024] will take place in the Stadthalle Fürth. Organized by the Bavarian Laser Center and the Institute for Photonic Technologies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the focus of LANE is on the exchange of current scientific results and developments ...

The Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW) at the University of Stuttgart cordially invites you to participate in the 12th Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum (SLT). The conference in English language will take place for the first time over three days, from 4 to 6 June 2024, in the Kursaal Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. The traditional invited talks will be supplement...

For the 14th time, laser manufacturers and laser users from various industries will meet at the biennial AKL - International Laser Technology Congress. In more than 80 presentations over three conference days, participants will be brought up to date with the latest technology and gain an insight into current research topics for tomorrow's production solutio...

The OPC UA Companion Specification 40530 and the VDMA Standard Sheet of the same name have been revised following a public consultation as a release candidate with the feedback collected and the Joint Working Group has unanimously confirmed the final document. The final document is now available for download on the homepages of the VDMA and the OPC Foundati...

At the autumn meeting of the VDMA Working Group Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing (WG Laser), the members held an election to complete the board of directors and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman were confirmed. Dr Hagen Zimer, Member of the Management Board and CEO Laser Technology at Trumpf, and Nikolas Meyer, Head of Sales and Industry Mana...

OPC 40430 specifies an OPC UA Information Model for Laser Systems. Such a system is considered a self-contained unit, including the laser source and all required subsystems, such as the control system for the laser source, optics, cooling aggregates and others. Hence, one or several laser systems may be a subcomponent of a larger machine. The goal of this c...

Climate protection is an important part of modern industry and sustainability has always been part of the DNA of the laser industry. The machines are designed for longevity, backwards compatible for years and offering spare parts in the long term is a matter of course, because the machines are sometimes in use for decades. In many industrial applications, l...