Entries by Grant Copson

SPOT Robot

Atkins – one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies – recently visited Cyan Tec to show off Spot, an impressive agile mobile robot manufactured by Boston Dynamics. Designed with automated sensing and inspection to make operations safer, more efficient, and predictable, Spot’s unique mobility allows the robot to go where […]

Alpha Active Demonstrator Installation

Working in collaboration with a number of partners, Cyan Tec have recent installed a laser cutting machine – an Alpha Active Demonstrator – at Sellafield. The project aims to develop a safer, semi remote process for the size reduction of alpha contaminated items that is more efficient when compared to manual operations. This is expected […]

Flexlase – Inside The Machine

With Cyan Tec due to launch the Flexlase – a flexible laser processing machine – at the upcoming Fanuc Open House, we take a look inside the machine and highlight some of its best features. The Hyperion™ Flexlase is a high-quality, compact, modular laser processing machine. The characteristics of the fibre fed solid state range […]

Cyan Tec to Launch Flexlase at Fanuc Open Day

Cyan Tec are pleased to announce that their new flexible laser processing machine, Flexlase, will be launched at the upcoming Fanuc open day. The open day, running from the 1st to the 5th of November 2021, will be hosted at Fanuc’s state of art facility in Coventry, UK. This is a fantastic opportunity for potential […]

Radioactive Waste Segregation Project

Cyan Tec, working alongside nuclear partner Atkins Limited, have been awarded a government contract for a radioactive waste segregation project. The ‘Sort & Seg’ innovation competition, launched in July 2020, set the challenge of finding ways to sort and segregate mixed radioactive waste at some of the UK’s oldest nuclear sites. The project will be […]

Automated Systems for Battery Technology

The transition from a traditional combustion engine to battery technology is well and truly underway in the UK, with more and more users switching to electric vehicles, and Cyan Tec are making inroads into this market at pace. Lithium-ion batteries have reached the status of being the spearhead of the automotive market, capable of having […]

Cyan Tec Win Order for JET Project

Cyan Tec have consistently worked on a number of large projects over the last decade, but perhaps none bigger than the latest success of winning an order to produce a laser system for The Joint European Torus (JET) project. JET is an operational magnetically confined plasma physics experiment, with a main purpose of opening the […]

Cyan Tec Install Large Laser Cutting Machine

Almost a decade on after integrating – at the time – the largest laser laser source in Europe, Cyan Tec have designed and manufactured another showpiece laser system for The Manufacturing Technology Centre. The physically significant machine structure (15.5m x 9.5m) incorporates a combination of a large flatbed cutting area (12m x 4m) and the […]

Cyan Tec become ABB Value Provider

In testing times for the industry and of course the wider world, some positive news as Cyan Tec have recently been credited as an ABB Value Provider. Over the last few years, Cyan Tec have provided complex, modular and bespoke automation with the integration of many ABB robots. This includes for laser applications such as […]

InPrint Technical Conference

Robotics & Inkjet Integration Cyan Tec CEO, Clayton Sampson, speaking on robotics and inkjet integration at the InPrint Technical Conference from 12–14 November 2019 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, Germany. Offering technical expertise to ease the integration of inkjet into production lines to digitally print direct to product with three rotary axes. Explaining the […]