Advantages of Laser Technology over Mechanical Methods

LaserSharp FlexPak services, LLC offers patented LaserSharp® technology to fulfill your laser requirements for flexible packaging applications. What makes this process unique is the advanced controls software of our LaserSharp® laser systems. This control technology ensures consistent score depths and hole sizes regardless of web speed, allowing for superior features such as registered or intermittent scoring and perforating. The flexibility of digital laser processing yields rapid turnaround, high quality results, and affordable pricing. Toll laser converting solutions from LaserSharp FlexPak Services provide a high quality alternative to conventional processing methods and deliver more accurate breathable and easy open flexible packaging features.

LaserSharp® Processing Capabilities Outperform Conventional Methods by Offering:

• Multiple processes:
  • Laser microperforate, score, and etch in one production run
  • Machine direction (down web) and transverse direction (cross web) processing, or both simultaneously
  • Straight line, contour line, and patterned processing abilities
  • Multiple line processing
• Flexible digital control with precise print registration
• Non-contact, clean processing method
• Precise shape, size, and location of laser processed features within the web
• Simple and rapid pattern changeover
• Smaller feature sizes that cannot be achieved with mechanical methods
• Precision score depth control to maintain a film’s barrier layer 
• Consistent perforated hole sizes with round shapes clean of residue
• Adjustable hole size to meet product specifications
• Sealed hole edges to reduce unwanted propagation while strengthening
  surrounding material
• Adjustable perforating pattern layout to maintain desired OTR requirements