How to look at a laser as investement in our industrial world?

Lasers are costly tools and are often 2-4 times more expensive than traditional processes like sandblasting dry ice and chemicals. However, the operational costs are only 1/10 of the traditional techniques.

A chemical process is very cheap to start but has high operational costs and unacceptable human risks today when an accident occurs. Blasting processes have a high blasting material, energy - and maintenance cost. The dry ice process is probably the most costly around. First, we need compressed air to produce dry ice with a high carbon footprint. We know dry ice is promoted as a renewable stream from other processes, but finally, it is fake news. It is a waste stream product, creating afterwards more carbon dioxide. So yes, laser cleaning is the ultimate integration process in a brand-new process line. Unfortunately, in 90% of the cases, we want to replace a  multi-functional traditional process. Do we have a chance?    Absolutely, if you need a low-cost production on demand. . Only top efficient production organisations can capitalize massively by investing and adapting their processes. They will take the lead in their segment. Integrating lasers will eliminate unclear quality problems because now you have a controllable process, not adding extra production problems.