Conference Agenda

Session

Special Session – Laser Material Processing for Circular Manufacturing: Repair, Recovery and Upcycling

Time:

Wednesday, 23/Sept/2026:

2:00pm - 3:20pm

Session Chair: Prof. Frederik Zanger, Karlsruhe - Institutsleiter Fertigungs- und Werkstofftechnik, Germany

Location: Heinrich-Lades-Halle - Small Hall

Rathauspl. 2 91052 Erlangen

Session Abstract

This session explores how laser material processing can be used to transform production waste into high valuable components, or at least into suitable feedstock, to support circular manufacturing. It focuses on waste streams such as offcuts, rejected builds, and used powders, with emphasis on strategic alloys and metals. Contributions will address bottlenecks in preprocessing, contamination control, and handling of waste derived material, as well as approaches to maintain process stability under feedstock variability. Topics may include new process routes or strategies, as well as robust parameter design, beam shaping, in situ sensing and advanced process control with the aim of improving reliability and part quality.

Presentations

2:00pm - 2:20pm

Digital evaluation of a DED-LB repaired aeronautical component via Machine Learning

Aizpea Urresti, Jon Iñaki Arrizubieta, Aitzol Lamikiz

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Basque Country (EHU), Torres Quevedo 1, 48013 Bilbao, Spain

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Laser ablation for the recovery of LiFePO4 cathode active material from aluminum current collectors in Li-ion batteries

Riccardo Cesaro¹, Eugenio Gibertini², Luca Magagnin², Ali Gökhan Demir¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milan, Italy; ²Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Via Bassini 6, 20131 Milano, Italy

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Water-Jet Guided Laser Machining of Polycrystalline Diamond Cutting Tools for Enhanced Sustainability

Priyanka Ghosh¹, Tahsin T. Öpöz², Juan Ahuir-Torres², Xiaoxiao Liu², Hiren Kotadia², Andre Batako², Xun Chen², Sundar Marimuthu¹

¹The Manufacturing Technology Centre,, United Kingdom; ²General Engineering Research Institute, School of Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Underwater Laser Decoding of Epoxy-Based Coatings Using a High-Power blue Diode Laser and Scanner

Stanislav Zimbelmann, Jörg Hermsdorf, Benjamin Emde

Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany