HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie

What HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie does

HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie designs and manufactures modular laser processing heads for welding, brazing, and cutting, serving e-mobility, automotive, consumer electronics, and heavy industrial manufacturers with integrated machine vision and power capabilities up to 30 kW.

Name

HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie

Legal name

Coherent Corp.

Website

https://highyag.com

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie designs and manufactures modular laser processing heads for welding, brazing, and cutting, serving e-mobility, automotive, consumer electronics, and heavy industrial manufacturers with integrated machine vision and power capabilities up to 30 kW.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Laser Processing Equipment

NAICS

Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing (333992), Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing (333515)

SIC

Optical Instruments & Lenses (3827), Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Optics & Laser/Light Engine Components (Lenses, Galvos, Laser Modules, UV Engines) (IMAAAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Optoelectronic Components (LEDs, photodiodes, optocouplers, optical sensors) (IMAGAJAF), Machine Vision & Inspection Lighting (Ring lights, bar lights, backlights, strobed illumination) (IMAGAIAG)

Keywords

• Laser processing heads
• Remote laser welding
• Laser cutting equipment
• Industrial laser optics
• Laser brazing systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Kleinmachnow

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HIGHYAG Lasertechnologie designs and manufactures automated laser processing heads and accessories that deliver high-power one-micron laser light for industrial welding, brazing, and cutting applications. Its product range covers precision and remote laser welding heads, high-power fiber cutting heads, modular processing heads, machine vision solutions, and zoom optics sold to industrial manufacturers in automotive, e-mobility, consumer electronics, medical devices, and heavy industrial sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HIGHmotion 2D™: High-performance remote laser welding head, incorporating scanner and F-Theta lens. Delivers high quality, reliable welds in demanding applications such as e-mobility manufacturing. Works with conventional and ARM fiber lasers up to 8 kW CW, over field sizes to 251 mm x 372 mm.
• SmartWeld+
• BIMO Laser Processing Heads™
• HIGHmodular Laser Processing Head
• HIGHtactile
• HIGHvision
• RLSK

Products and services

• SmartWeld+ Precision welding head for Coherent PowerLine FL or ARM laser welding products incorporating advanced beam wobble capabilities. Enables welding of dissimilar or challenging materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, and copper for e-mobility and consumer electronics; provides smart patterns ranging from simple wobble to spirals, ellipses, and other complex shapes, with on-the-fly control of pattern size and orientation.
• HIGHmotion 2D High-performance remote laser welding head incorporating scanner and F-Theta lens. Delivers high-quality, reliable welds in demanding applications such as e-mobility manufacturing and works with conventional and ARM fiber lasers up to 8 kW CW over field sizes to 251 mm x 372 mm.
• RLSK 3D remote laser welding head offering capabilities for following complex weld paths in x, y, and z beam movement. Covers large 3D working space up to 244 mm x 369 mm with 200 mm z range, with a seam tracking option that automatically follows curved paths. Designed for autobody and hang-on-parts production.
• HIGHvision Integrated machine vision solution for Coherent remote welding heads, optimized for 3D fillet welding seam tracking, position matching for 2D welding, shape recognition, and hairpin welding, with advanced algorithms delivering precise control and rapid detection times.
• BIMO Laser Processing Heads Modular laser processing heads for high-power fiber-coupled lasers up to 20 kW delivering exceptional operational reliability. Available with a unique zoom collimation module that maintains the original beam profile including top-hat or ARM beams; built for high-power industrial welding jobs in auto production, pipe manufacturing, and energy.
• HIGHmodular Tactile seam tracking process heads for wire brazing and welding with continuously adjustable zoom and focus on-the-fly under software control. Useful for demanding welding tasks in auto manufacturing and e-mobility and delivers high-quality results and exceptional reliability.
• BIMO-FSC3 High-power fiber laser cutting head for 2.5D sheet metal cutting with a unique optical design enabling outstanding cutting performance over a wide range of materials and thicknesses up to 50 mm. Enables high-power cutting up to 30 kW in CW operation.
• SmartCut+ Cutting head for precision part manufacturing in consumer electronics, medical products, and watchmaking that produces complex microstructures in metal with reduced taper at high speed. Patterns include traditional wobble plus spirals, ellipses, and complex shapes.
• PH50DL Zoom Optic Zoom optic that transforms high-power diode-laser output into a 2D homogenized top-hat rectangular focused spot with independently adjustable length and width on-the-fly under software control. Applications include heat treating, hardening, cladding, laser-assisted bonding, microLED bonding, and tape laying.
• HIGHtactile System for automotive brazing applications and various wire welding tasks in both body-in-white and e-mobility production, combining advanced sensor and servo technology to deliver precise force control.

Quantifiable outcome

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Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SCANSONIC (SCANSONIC INDUSTRIAL): Specialist in remote laser welding heads and 3D seam tracking, directly competing with HIGHmotion 2D, RLSK and HIGHvision in automotive body-in-white and e-mobility.
• Precitec: Direct competitor in laser cutting and welding processing heads, including high-power and remote welding heads with integrated seam tracking. Highly comparable product architecture and customer base in automotive and e-mobility.

Emerging players

• nLIGHT: Supplier of high-power fiber lasers and semiconductor lasers used in welding and cutting, with growing systems exposure that competes with HIGHYAG's processing head customers.
• Laserline: Specialist in high-power diode lasers for welding, cladding and brazing — complements and competes with HIGHYAG's brazing/cladding (PH50DL) processing head solutions.

Broad incumbents

• Han's Laser: Large Chinese integrated laser system maker offering laser welding, cutting and brazing equipment for automotive, electronics and consumer goods — overlapping use cases.
• Trumpf: Major German manufacturer of industrial lasers and laser welding/cutting systems. Offers its own processing heads and complete systems, overlapping with HIGHYAG in automotive and e-mobility applications.
• IPG Photonics: World leader in fiber lasers and a major supplier of laser welding/cutting systems. Increasingly vertical into processing heads and complete solutions overlapping with HIGHYAG's served applications.
• Bystronic: Global supplier of sheet metal cutting systems including high-power laser cutting machines — a downstream systems buyer of high-power cutting heads in adjacent territory to BIMO-FSC3.
• Amada: Major machine tool and laser cutting system manufacturer with integrated fiber laser cutting products targeting sheet metal processing — adjacent systems buyer of cutting heads.

Others

• Coherent Corp. Parent platform and broader industrial laser solutions provider; HIGHYAG sits within Coherent's industrial laser processing head portfolio, while Coherent's wider laser source/system business defines the competitive context.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/@CoherentCorp
• Facebookfacebook.com/CoherentCorp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/highyag-lasertechnologie-gmbh
• Instagraminstagram.com/coherent_corp

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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