Pryor Marking Technology

The Pryor Bench Laser is manufactured in Sheffield.

For us, that's not a footnote. It means the engineers who designed it are the same people you speak to when you have a question about your application. It also means lead times aren't dependent on international supply chains. And it means a machine built to the standards of a company that has been marking components since 1849.

MOPA comes as standard across 30W, 50W, and 100W. Class 1 safety enclosure. Automatic Z-axis. Traceability Software included. Available with an optional touchscreen controller for at-machine layout creation and editing.

If you're specifying a benchtop laser and want a system backed by genuine application knowledge, we're happy to talk it through.

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Marking titanium aerospace components is not the same as marking steel.

Standard Q-switched fibre lasers can cause micro-cracking in titanium alloys. On a flight-critical component, that is a material integrity concern, not a cosmetic one. RRES90003 and AS9132 both specify controlled-parameter laser marking on titanium for exactly this reason.

MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) lasers apply energy in shorter, more precisely controlled pulses. The result is a clean, grade-compliant Data Matrix code or part number string without subsurface damage.

If your contract specifies RRES90003 on Ti-6Al-4V or similar alloys, the laser type in the marking station is not interchangeable with whatever is already in the cell. It needs to be specified for the material.

We run parameter trials on customer-supplied parts before any production parameters are committed. If you're specifying a new laser marking process for titanium aerospace components, it's worth a call before the system goes into the cell. Engineers in Sheffield: +44 (0)114 276 6044

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