The exhibit demonstrates the potential of lasers for cleaning and pre-treating surfaces on various materials. Examples include the removal of paint and rust or "light blasting" as an economical alternative to particle-based blasting. The laser is interesting for almost all industries, as the process does not require cleaning media, thereby reducing disposal efforts and allowing integration into automated production lines.

A tool with many possibilities - the result can be finely adjusted from pure cleaning to defined roughening and structuring as a pre-treatment for subsequent processes such as joining or coating. Fraunhofer IWS develops customer-specific economic processes and corresponding system solutions.