Approximately 320 guests attended the award ceremony in the historic coronation hall of the Aachen Town hall. Paul Hilton, spokesman for the international jury emphasized the outstanding innovations of the three top-ranked project teams in the field of laser technology. As Philips team leader, Armand Pruijmboom was appointed AKL Fellow and European Laser Institute Fellow.
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Second place went to a team from Audi, which developed laser remote welding of aluminum for automotive lightweighting. And third place went to a team from Coherent for developing UVblade, a method for mass production of flexible displays
Source and for details on the finalists: www.innovation-award-laser.org