Laser Shop

Since our inception, our niche in the marketplace has been the production of customer-designed parts. You envision it, and we make it. The Laser Shop began in a small Milwaukee shop with one laser and one press brake in 1996-we wish we had a picture to show you the tight parameters of the shop. In 1997, we relocated to Germantown, Wisconsin where a lot of progress was made through gradual employment, equipment, and process expansion. Continued success and growth have led us to our newest location where we run our lasers around the clock in order to serve our customers as best as possible at our largest facility ever in Jackson, Wisconsin.

We've gotten to where we are now based on our belief that quality product, on-time delivery, and value pricing is the key to our and your success. Your confidence in our ability to produce your product is important to us, which is why we decided to incorporate the ISO 9001 quality management system into our business model in 2012. The Laser Shop has maintained ISO 9001 certification by ABS Quality Evaluations since our initial approval in December of 2013.

The Laser Shop is your one-stop shop for all your metal fabrication needs: laser cutting sheet metal, water jet cutting, forming, certified welding, fabrication, light machining, and painting. Odds are that if we don't offer a portion of the service needed to complete your product, we know who does; so, we can get the job done for you when you need it-at a fair price.

Quality Welding

Certified Welding Welders at The Laser Shop are certified by the American Welding Society. We are vastly experienced in custom metal fabrication, production welding, multipass welding, ornamental welding, and spot welding products both large and small, regardless of complexity. All types of weld joints in all positions on mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum are common practice at The Laser Shop. Ask our Estimator about our ability to produce your product.

Welding Certifications and Standard Practices:

• D1.1, D1.2, D1.3, D9.1, and B2.1
• Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) Stick Welding
• Dye-penetrate Leak Testing Welding Fixtures Welding Machine Inventory

Sheet Metal Laser Cutting

Sheet metal laser cutting allows fast, precise, and consistent cutting of nested shapes and blanks. We have four CO2 laser operating systems. The Laser Shop commonly cuts any grade of mild steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and many other materials, including wood and some proprietary materials. We are also capable of producing appearance sensitive parts. If necessary, we also have a tumbler for removing oxidation, small burrs, or minor blemishes from the product after our laser cutting process. Ask our Estimator about our ability to produce your product.

Laser Cutting Range:

• 0.001-0.6250-inch mild steel sheet metal
• 0.001-0.3125-inch stainless steel sheet metal
• 0.001-0.2500-inch aluminum sheet metal
• 5 x 10-feet material maximum lights-out laser cutting

We have four laser processing systems:

• Mazak SUPER TURBO-X510 Mk II CO2 (one stand-alone and two in tandem)
• Mitsubishi ML2512LXP CO2 Tandem
• Mazak Laser Conveyor System: This is the starting point for the tandem machine setup. Sheet metal is loaded onto this conveyor system's table. It picks up a sheet of metal using suction cups and transports it to one of the two lasers for cutting.
• Tandem Mazak Lasers: Right now, we are cutting two separate jobs on each laser. After removing the finished job, we'll make a few setting adjustments to the second laser and inspect the first part cut on that laser so that both lasers can cut the same job to get it done faster.

Tumbled versus Untumbled Steel

The one on top is tumbled, the one on the bottom has laser oxide on it. Some of our customers request their parts be tumbled after the laser cutting process to remove any unwanted oxidation or impurities.