Market Trends of Laser Cleaning Industry
Automotive Sector to Witness Major Growth
- Laser cleaning removes all contaminants, not just those that are visible. The significant instances where laser cleaning is used in automotive include corrosion removal, coating removal, topcoat select removal, oxide treatment in automotive production or maintenance, etc.
- Laser cleaning can restore a high-value vehicle that has all its original parts and is in good condition on the surface. Great cars with little corrosion are tough to obtain, especially as they age. According to Adapt Laser Systems, automotive manufacturers such as GM, Michelin, and Toyota have partnered with the company for laser technologies, including cleaning.
- In addition, the increase in the demand for electric vehicles and the deployment of laser cleaning machines are expected to boost the demand during the forecast period. Thousands of pulses per second are used in laser cleaning to absorb and eliminate impurities.
- For instance, according to KBB, in the first quarter of 2023, just under 258,900 battery-electric vehicles were sold in the United States. This was a year-over-year increase of around 44.9% compared to the sales recorded in the first quarter of 2022. The first quarter of 2023 also recorded a hike in sales compared to the fourth quarter of 2022, making it the best quarter for BEV sales in the country across the past two years.
- Cleaning battery components with a laser system enables producers to work fast and safely while managing the ablation process down to 1 to 3-micron levels of material removal. This makes keeping the substrate layer intact easier, resulting in connections far superior to non-cleaned areas and significantly improved bond stability over time and miles.
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Asia-Pacific Expected to Register Significant Growth
- China has begun committing a significant amount of human and material resources to advancing laser cleaning technology research. With the development of advanced lasers in the last ten years, lasers have advanced in energy output, wavelength range, laser quality, and energy conversion efficiency. Lasers have evolved from inefficient and bulky carbon dioxide lasers to lightweight and compact fiber lasers, from continuous output laser to nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond short-pulse laser, and from visible light output to long-wave infrared light and short-wave ultraviolet light output.
- Furthermore, the rapid advancement of laser cleaning technology is intimately connected to the advancement of laser technology. In both theory and practice, laser cleaning technology has yielded positive outcomes in the country.
- According to IBEF, the construction market is expected to reach USD 1.42 trillion by 2027. FDI in construction development (townships, housing, built-up infrastructure, and construction development projects) and construction (infrastructure) activity sectors stood at USD 32.08 billion in September 2023 across India.
- Several companies in the country are making strategic moves to strengthen their capabilities and offer enhanced solutions to clients in the industrial sector. For instance, in February 2024, Meera Laser Solution Pvt. Ltd announced the opening of its new technology center in Pune. The new center is designed to support manufacturing activities and research and development. The facility is equipped with advanced machinery and modern research and development labs and is positioned to promote innovation and collaboration within the industrial laser solutions sector. It features specialized laboratories facilitating continuous experimentation, testing, and the development of cutting-edge laser technologies.
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