OUR MISSION
Educate and empower individuals, businesses, and entire indesutries by providing the knowledge and resources required to accelerate the industrial adoption of handheld laser welding
ABOUT US
The Handheld Laser Institute was founded by Rex Alexandre in early 2024 and is focused on accelerating the industrial adoption of handheld laser welding by providing education, training, and cutting-edge research based on real-world welding applications. Engineering and educational services can be provided at our world class lab in the greater Seattle area, or directly at customer's facilities across North America.
SERVICES
PROCEDURE QUALIFICATIONS
HHLI will develop and qualify welding procedures for your application
All qualifications testing performed at a third-party testing facility
WPS and PQR documents will be provided to your code requirements
CONSULTING
Weld strength & metallurgical analysis of GMAW/GTAW vs. HHLBW
Materials & weldability testing
Mechanical performance & weld design allowables
Manufacturing guidelines & best practices
Process monitoring, reliability, and inspection
Hardware development & improvements
APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
Demo parts to your specifications
Customer supplies raw material
Low quantity manufacturing runs upon request
ON-SITE TRAINING
1-2 days basic training consisting of 20% classroom and 80% hands-on instruction
Includes applications & process development on your parts
BIO
Rex Alexandre graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor's and Master's in Welding Engineering in 2016, and has spent most of his career developing laser welding, cladding, cutting, and additive manufacturing processes for the aerospace industry. His first introduction to handheld laser welding was in 2020, while working as a Senior Welding Engineer on SpaceX's Starship program. What started as a personal curiosity and side project quickly grew to be an industry-leading handheld laser welding program used to manufacture the world's largest and most powerful space launch vehicle. Rex is passionate about advancing the industrial adoption of handheld laser welding and currently sits on multiple AWS subcommittees in addition to being the President and Principal Engineer of the Handheld Laser Institute.
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