Laser Engraving and Cutting

With 3 high-tech laser engravers, we can easily handle all jobs, ranging from personalizing a single ink pen, to large industrial production orders. Our largest laser boasts an impressive 20" x 32" bed, and we have rotary attachments that allow us to engrave the entire circumference of round objects. Laser Engraving is a non-contact process, which makes it easy to achieve repeatable, permanent marks with the laser. 

Laser Engravable Materials List

• Wood 
• Acrylics and some Plastics
• Metals (Coated, non-coated, and anodized)
• Corian
• Granite, Marble, and non-porous stone
• Glass (Flat or round objects such as glasses and wine bottles)
• Paper
• Cardboard 
• Decals 
• ID plates 
• Leather
• Latex Rubber (for custom ink stamps)

Vector Cutting (Using CO2 Laser)

For Vector Cutting, the CO2 Laser follows a path around a solid line, moving much slower than in Raster Engraving.

Materials that we can Vector Cut include:

• Plastics:
  • ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)
  • Acrylic (also known as Plexiglas, Lucite, PMMA)
  • Acrylite
  • Delrin (POM, acetal)
  • Kapton tape (Polyimide)
  • Mylar (polyester)
  • Perspex
  • PETG (polyethylene terephthalate glycol)
  • Plexiglas
  • Polypropylene (PP) – melts somewhat
  • Styrene
  • Two-tone acrylic – top color different than core material, usually for custom instrumentation panels, signs, and plaques.
• Foam:
  • Depron foam – often used for RC planes.
  • EPM
  • Gator foam – foam core gets burned and eaten away compared to the top and bottom hard shell.
• Other:
  • Cloths (leather, suede, felt, hemp, cotton)
  • Magnetic sheets
  • Papers
  • Rubbers (only if they do not contain chlorine)
  • Teflon (PTFE, Polytetrafluoroethylene) 
  • Woods (MDF, balsa, birch, poplar, red oak, cherry, holly, etc.) 

Materials we cannot laser cut

We do not cut the following materials:

• Metals – we can engrave metal, but we cannot cut it.
• Polycarbonate (PC, Lexan)
• Polyethylene (PE) – melts badly
• Any material containing chlorine
• PVC (Cintra) – contains chlorine
• Vinyl – contains chlorine
• Glass – we can engrave glass, but we cannot cut it.
• Fiberglass
• Printed circuit board (FR4 and other material types)
• Carbon fiber
• High density polyethylene (HDPE) – melts badly