Demo videos

Ten jobs.
One method.

A handheld pulse or continuous laser uses focused light to remove rust, paint, and other contaminants, with the parameters set to leave the surface beneath undamaged. This process — called laser ablation — is precise, chemical-free, and leaves no solvent or blast-media waste behind. It produces less cleanup than traditional methods and is ideal for industrial and commercial use.

10 clips Steel · aluminum · timber Handheld or CNC-mounted No abrasive media Nothing loads until you press play

01Cleaning inside a rail tank car

On site · inside the shell

Cleaned from
the inside.

This one is inside a rail tank car — a confined, curved steel shell, cleaned from within during a live on-site demonstration. It is the case that makes the method worth having: there is no easy way to blast the inside of a vessel like this, because everything you put in there you then have to contain and recover back out of it.

The beam is non-contact, and what comes off leaves as vapour and fine particulate, captured at the head. Nothing is pressed, folded or dragged across the metal — which is what matters when welding or an inspection follows.

Why the inspection reads the metal

Two more surfaces

The same head,
reset twice.

A coated rail tank car shell, and a perforated steel vacuum bed under heavy rust. Same handheld head, parameters set to each surface before the pass.

02Coating and corrosion off a rail tank car
03Rust cleaned off a steel vacuum bed

04CNC paint removal from steel components

In the shop · CNC-mounted

The machine
holds the head.

Here the head is mounted on a CNC machine instead of held in a hand, removing paint from steel components. The machine carries the beam across the part while the extraction hood above takes what comes off.

Ask about your parts

The other six

Contamination removed.
Substrate preserved.

Baked-on material, paint, rust and oxides, stain and lacquer, road grime, brake fluid — six contaminants, cleaned off three different substrates with the same handheld head at different settings.