ALE design & manufacture a range of laser engraving & scanning systems. Our engraving systems utilise state of the art laser technology for engraving, texturing, imaging and micromachining the surface of cylindrical forms that are used in a variety of printing, embossing or texturing applications. Though all our current machines engrave onto a cylindrical surface some of the products are used in the flat.

A variety of materials can be engraved including various plastics, ceramics and assorted metals. The speciality of ALE systems is the very high registration accuracy over small and very large formats. We have machines in the field with cylinder handling capacity of 8 metre face width and diameter of 1.2 metres. Our engraving pixel size typically ranges from 2 microns upwards with a system resolution of 1 micron in all axes.

Laser engraving systems for the engraving of ceramic anilox rollers. Narrow & wide web solutions, laser options to meet wide screen count range-geometries & volume demands.

• ceramic anilox rolls
• flexography sleeve/plate processing
• embossing rollers
• specialist gravure rolls
• screen printing
• applicator rolls
• metering rolls
• laser marking/drilling/perforating
• non-wovens
• tissue industry
• letterpress plates
• decorative wallpaper rolls
• rubber ruling rolls
• printed/electronics industry
• security industry
• ceramic tile printing rolls
• optical film (BEF/LEF)
• cold seal rolls
• paper industry

ALE supply a standard range of machine sizes, other size and configuration options are available on request. Depending on customer's needs we supply systems where the laser is moved across the work piece/cylinder, (moving laser),  or the work piece is moved across the laser, (moving cylinder).

For specialist or new applications,  ALE develop bespoke systems for customer's with specific industry production demands. For laser texturing, micromachining, drilling or marking applications, the laser type, wavelength and power are selected and integrated into the bespoke system.