General Lasertronics develops, manufactures and sells laser-based coatings removal systems. Originally focused on "de-painting" commercial and military aircraft, strong secondary markets offering growth opportunities have been radiation decontamination, graffiti removal and lead paint removal. The firm also offers a system design that removes etched or stamped markings from ICs (chips) on PC boards. This system includes a programmable X-Y platform for coating removal automation. GLC breakthroughs in energy delivery enables deployment of portable, flexible systems for job-site applications. Providing system designs that are specialized and safe for depainting military aircraft and other weapons systems and equipment, also available are designs that are appropriate to other industrial cleaning and surface treatment tasks. Homeland security needs, for example, have triggered an increased focus on decontaminating radioactive surfaces, and on similar chemical and biological decontamination processes in addition to lead-based paint removal. Firm undercores the fact that toxic waste volumes are greatly reduced in all areas tested by comparison ot the more conventional methods of chemical or blast cleaning and stripping methods
