Two 5 kW CO2 Laser welders developed by Kawasaki Steel Corp. have been installed for pickling lines at both Mizushima and Chiba Works in 1983.
Those are the first 5 kW Laser welder for sheet steel production floor, which can weld automatically any kind of steel strip measuring up to 1 880 mm in width and up to 6 mm in thickness, bringing about high yield of production on cold rolling process.
