Elektron Laser P100 + P150

The Laser for when the Cutting is Tough.

Aeronaut manufactures a range of high power flatbed laser cutters intended for work with medium to heavy weight recreational and technical textiles. Offering excellent accuracy, efficient cutting speeds, low running costs and low maintenance, these lasers are well suited to continuous production work.

The lasers in the class are all water cooled pulse lasers which offer high power levels and excellent beam quality with very low discolouration at the cut zone.

Heavy Duty Laser Cutting Starts Here.

Aeronaut's high power lasers range from 100 to 250 watts of pulse laser power. Pulse lasers are a newer technology than continuous wave lasers and offer some advantages such as higher cutting power per watt and a cleaner cut edge.

Typically, a 100 watt pulse laser cuts about 25% faster than a conventional 100 watt CW laser. A 150 watt laser cuts at about the speed of a 200 watt "all metal" CW laser. Not all watts are equal though. In real-world conditions, Aeronaut's 30 watt Elektron Vi30 cuts cruise weight Dacron sailcloth at the same speed as the glass tube 200 watt laser used by one of the world's largest sailmakers.

Higher power means more weight (and cost unfortunately!) This means that higher powered lasers are less agile than low powered lasers by a small amount. They're ideally suited for cutting large and less detailed patterns typically found in upholstery and sailmaking rather than the detailed patterns found in paraglider foils for example.

High powered lasers share the same low running costs as lower power lasers with the same low maintenance and very long service life. They're a sensible investment for a production cutting room or sail loft.

Features

Water Cooled "All-metal" Pulse Lasers

These laser tubes are good for tens of thousands of hours work and can be regassed and returned to new power levels when necessary.

Heavy-Duty Chassis

High power lasers have a long wheelbase Elektron gantry to handle the extra weight of the laser tube. They're industrial strength machines, rugged, stiff and very low maintenance.

Concentric Pen Adaptor for Accurate Marking

Compatible with a wide range of markers (ballpoints, paint markers, etc.), enabling easy marker type changes without affecting seam allowances.

Optional Higher Inkjet Head

If you want marking and cutting to be all zero-contact, then an inkjet print head can be fitted to the front plate, alongside the pen.

Advantages

Heavy Duty Laser Cutting

For continuous cutting of medium to heavy fabrics, these laser cutters are the production workhorses.

Long Service Life

Engineered without compromise, Aeronaut's high power lasers are built to last, delivering reliable performance over decades.

Very low maintenance

Elektron lasers are designed for low maintenance. The fume chimney can be easily removed for checking the lens and mirrors. The mirror draw allows the lens to be removed, checked and replaced within a minute or two. Laser exit windows are site replaceable.

Low Running Cost

The running costs of laser cutters are very low compared with a blade cutter. No blade swapping, no blade alignment to slow you down.

Industries

Sailmaking

For production lofts cutting sailcloth for keelboats to super yachts, Aeronaut's laser cutters are the tool of choice. Able to handle the light fabrics as well as the heavy ones at efficient production speeds, the low running costs and low maintenance make this the cutter for offshore cutting facilities.

Parachutes

Military and recreational parachutes are an area where Aeronaut is the dominant cutter manufacturer. With all-round edge sealing being an important requirement, a laser is the best tool for the job.

Low power lasers are perfect for canopies but if harnesses, containers and other products are cut, then a higher power laser is more efficient.

Upholstery

You don't have to be the biggest in the world to understand the advantages of laser cutting synthetic upholstery fabrics, With single ply cutter, you can efficiently cut, edge seal, pattern match and dynamically re-nest to avoid fabric faults and achieve a durable low-cost product.

Recreational Textiles

Most synthetic textiles can be cut (and edge sealed) with a laser - just not PVC. While you might not get perfect edge sealing with materials like polycotton, this and many of the textiles used in outdoor and recreational products will cut fast and efficiently with a laser cutter.

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Software, Nesting and Technology

Nesting and Control

Aeronaut's Tangent software is the key to reducing fabric waste and Tangent's powerful and user friendly cutter control is essential to increase production.

Autonesting

Fast and efficient autonesting can pay for a cutting system in months if your fabric is expensive - and isn't waste fabric the most expensive fabric in your business?

Rapid Patterning

Aeronaut has developed rapid patterning software and CAD plugins to reduce the design to cut time down to a few minutes on complex patterns.

Autotracing Patterns

Aeronaut's revolutionary SiliconEye machine vision software can accurately trace and digitise a table full of patterns in seconds.

Aligning Patterns

With Aeronaut's full-table or gantry mounted machine vision systems, aligning cut profiles to patterned fabric or digitally printed material is simple.

Inkjet Printing

Inkjet printing is the fastest way to do pattern numbers, markings and reference text on almost any fabric.

15 years of great service... what is there to complain about?

AM

Window furnishings.
Actually, your cutter can cut everything. We also use it for hard materials (Cordura, thick foams and polyethylene, etc.) rigs, bags and so on. For this just increase the pressure.

A.K

Sporting Goods
Advantages of the Aeronaut cutter are: 1. Accuracy and neatness of details is much more better. 2. Possibility to cut various materials and multilayers for some fabrics (with good airporosity). 3. More reliable work 24 hours per day 7 days a week.

P.H.

Recreational Products NSW
Aeronaut software is by far the best in the industry and was the swaying factor in our decision to buy an Aeronaut cutter.

M.C.

Window Furnishings.
All our Tensioned Fabric Structures are cut on the plotter we have never had accuracy issues. 18 years this year, more square meters than I’d care to think about and still going strong.

N.M.

Tension structures & shade sails
At that price? We can aﬀord to buy two... (And they bought six.)

B.F.

Window furnishings
Buying a cutter from Aeronaut Automation has been one of the best decisions we have made in the last 10 years.

S.L.

Shade structures
Buying an Aeronaut cutter has improved accuracy and reduced waste. Production time has been greatly improved.

B.M.

Fabric structures
I am impressed by our Aeronaut machine. It is absurd to make comparisons between Aeronaut and XxxXxxx product. If Aeronaut is a cutter then XxxXxxx is a toy.

A. K.

Paragliders
I called five of your customers. You can't buy goodwill like that. You can expect our order this morning.

A.C.

Blind maker
I don't know what we would do without it. I could not imagine going back to working in the old way.

M.B.

Sailmaking
I just cut some medium weight kevlar sails, I'm still impressed by the speed and accuracy the Aeronaut cutter runs. Very nice when I have to work on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

J.H.

Denmark
I just want to say, this week we have going hard, 20 hours a day for 5 straight days and the Aeronaut machine hasn't missed a beat. Just wanted to congratulate you on a fine piece of machinery.

T.H.

Short run packaging
I knew within five minutes of seeing an Aeronaut cutter that I was going to buy it.

B.F.

Soft furnishings.
I must admit the more I use your machine more I am in love with it. It's a wonderful machine.

B.V.

India
I saw one of the new Aeronaut tables last week at XXXX Sails, a very smart set up. I can honestly say I don't know of anyone who has anything but praise for Aeronaut's installations here in the UK.

A.S

Cloth Supplier. UK.
I'm impressed by Aeronaut's practical approach instead of the marketing approaches of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxx etc.

T.G.

Manufacturing Consultant UK
If you are looking for an endorsement for Aeronaut, mine would be 110% Yes!

T.R.

Blind Maker USA.
If you were thinking of getting an Aeronaut cutting system, just do it!!… You won’t regret it!!!

S.L.

Shade structures
In comparison with our old xxxxxx machine, cutting speed have increased (around 20-40%).

M.W.

Sailmaker
In my experience the Aeronaut is very good. It is simple and robust, and is able to be maintained with a limited skill set.

B.H.

Sailmaker
It is incredible what our Aeronaut cutter has allowed us to achieve in production and technical add-on to our business.

T.R.

Blind Maker USA.
It was the Aeronaut software which was the clincher. The software was the best we saw anywhere.

M.W.

Automotive Upholstery
Many thanks and well done on a fantastic product.

R. H.

Blind Maker
Next time, I won't buy just one Aeronaut cutter, I'll buy two or three!

F.C.

Window shades
Our Aeronaut cutter has fully fulfilled my expectation to the letter. I can’t fault the machine.

C.M.

Window shades. USA.
Our Aeronaut cutter has tripled our business. It has made our company a lot more successful and life is easier.

C.T.

Canvas
Our Aeronaut cutter is a great bit of kit. I would recommend it to anyone.

P.W.

Sailmaking
Our Aeronaut cutter is the best thing we have ever bought.

S.M.

Truck Curtains Victoria.
Our Aeronaut cutter oﬀers great advantages on smaller orders as well as the large ones due to fast and precise cutting of materials we use to create the final products.

P.M.

Shade structures
It's reduced a day's cutting for four people down to 1.5 hours for just one.

M.K.

Canvas
Our Aeronaut cutter paid for itself three times over inside the first two years.

JG

Truck Curtains
Our Aeronaut has done a phenomenal job... otherwise we would not be buying another.

JK

Window furnishings.
Our cutter has cut hundreds of thousands of pieces and we've never had a breakdown.

AK

Window furnishings.
Our cutter is an Aeronaut out of Australia and it has been my best purchase ever.

T.R.

Blind Maker USA.
The Aeronaut cutter does more work than two and a half people, and it doesn't make mistakes. Based on that and the price, I can pay for it inside two years.

M.B

Blindmaker
Our decision to invest in your product was like flying to moon for us but it has made a massive diﬀerence to our company.

B.D.

Composites NZ
The Aeronaut cutter has completely transformed our manufacturing process. The cut pieces just fall together under the welder.

S.T.

Tension membranes NZ.
The Aeronaut cutter is the best, most simple solution to the problem of wide format cutters that I have seen.

P.A

A CNC machine manufacturer
The best thing about our cutter... is that it has reduced stress in the factory. If we get a big order we know the machine will handle it, fast, and no mistakes.

P.W.

PVC fabrication
The eﬀort was well worth it as the new machine has revolutionised the way we do things here, and has been for the past few years.

D.P.

Paragliders
The Elektron Quattro is ideally suited to high volumes as it's very accurate in minimising fabric waste.

P.M.

Shade structures
The good thing about our Aeronaut machine is that it is so easy to operate that we have four workers who can use it.

N.S.

Carbon and Glass Fibre pre-preg
The quality of the machinery speaks for itself… it is more accurate than any other cutting table.

S.C.

Window Shades"
The reason we bought an Aeronaut cutter is that it looked simple and reliable, and I knew we could do any maintenance on it ourselves.

D.M.

Corrugated Packaging.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Aeronaut cutter is the best way to go when it comes to supplying pool blankets.

S.B.

Swimming pool covers
We are excited about the prospects and the future. Aeronaut's table is true work-horse and is out performing any other table on the market.

A.M.

Packaging.
We are happy with the product and your team is responsive and your are providing a good support. For these reasons I would like to ask you if you would be interested in working with us on a much larger scale project.

T.R.

Composites
We are only as successful as our suppliers and supporters allow us to be, and we view Aeronaut as an integral part of our success.

M.W.

Window Furnishings
We are very happy with our new cutter, you made a very good job. Thanks. When you have clients, who are interest for the Aeronaut cutter, its no problem so send the guys to us. We can show them, no problem

S.S.

Sailmaker
We can unpick a product, lay it flat on the table and trace it with SiliconEye so what might have taken days to design, draw and make up, might be finished in just hours.

P.M.

Shade structures
We cut 2,000 to 3,500 metres each week with 30% less waste than our competitors.

J.L.

Carpet Cutting
We have achieved an 80% reduction in the labour to mark and cut. It takes 2 minutes to mark and cut everything. Previously, that would have taken over 10 minutes.

W.K.

Hurricane screens
We have just cut 36 bags with our new laser at nearly 2 bags per minute. That's a saving of over three days a year on this product alone compared with the old method.

A.R.

PVC
We love our Aeronaut cutter! It's the best machine we've got.

G.H.

Window Furnishings
We love this machine... it just goes and goes.

AK

Window furnishings.
We've had our Aeronaut cutter two years now and it's going like a train. If anyone wants to know, they can call me.

B.S

Sailmaking.
Why wouldn't I promote Aeronaut at every opportunity? Our cutter has been the best technical investment we ever made!

B.D.

Inflatables NZ
With an Aeronaut cutter, production is up 30% on our most optimistic estimates. and that is after using two types of competitive machine.

R.B.

Corrugated Packaging
With the Aeronaut cutter performing three times faster than hand cutting, the company had to put on two extra full-time machinists, as well as one casual, to keep up.

C.K.

Canvas & PVC
Aussie Bills has been using the Aeronaut for about 9 years. We have found the drive system to be very reliable with low maintenance required.

A. J.

Blinds, awnings
With the Aeronaut cutter performing three times faster than hand cutting, the company had to put on two extra full-time machinists, as well as one casual, to keep up

K.C.

Truck curtains

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