Laser Paint Stripping, Laser Cleaning and Coating Removal Solutions

Automotive Body Repair

Laser ablation is ideal for two of the toughest challenges in auto body repair:

• Removing corrosion
• Stripping paint

Obviously, repairs require removing both corrosion and paint from any body surface
before fresh paint can be applied. Conventional methods use chemical stripping,
mechanical abrasion, and in some cases media blast. All these processes are slow,
difficult to do right, and generate often toxic waste products that require careful disposal.
And some phases of these processes require skilled craftsmen for proper execution.

These factors make these processes time-consuming, filled with opportunities for error,
and expensive.

Laser ablation is a game changer.

• Concentrated laser energy focused into the corrosion or paint causes both
  materials to quickly vaporize and pop off the substrate.
• The same laser strips corrosion and paint. One tool does it all.
• The substrate remains untouched. There is no physical, structural, or
  chemical change to the substrate material. This fact enabled the FAA to
  approve the process for stripping delicate aircraft skins. All the laser energy
  is absorbed in the corrosion or paint.
• Because the substrate is unaffected, the laser can be used to strip any
  painted or corroded material: sheet steel, structural steel, other metals,
  fiberglass, plastic, glass, bondo, rubber.
• The vaporized coating material is captured by a purge air system, and routed
  through a HEPA filter where it is trapped for easy, inexpensive disposal.
  There are no contaminated chemicals or media to dispose of.