500,000 holes per second! (Keeping Up with Extrusion).That is thought to be a high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. perforation per·fo·ra·tion n. 1. The act of perforating or the state of being perforated. 2. An abnormal opening in a hollow organ or viscus, as one made by rupture or injury. Perforation A hole. record, even for lasers. The Perfolas machine from Rofin-Sinar, Plymouth Plymouth, city, England Plymouth, city (1991 pop. 238,583) and district, Devon, SW England, on Plymouth Sound. The three towns that Plymouth has comprised since 1914 are Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport. , Mich., was launched two years ago to make minute holes in cigarette paper. The machine has since been applied to perforating mono- mono- or mon- pref. 1. One; single; alone: monomorphic. 2. Monomolecular; monatomic: monolayer. 3. and multilayer plastic films. It comes in three versions for 6- to 39-in.-wide films. All use a bank of 16 laser heads with "energy-sharing" technology that spreads light from each laser into separate tiny beams. It makes holes as small as 40 microns (1.6 mils) at rates of 1000 ft/mm. Rofin has supplied several dozen Perfolas machines for plastics applications, including five to the U.S. Tel: (734) 455-5400, www.rofin.com |
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