2000

• Diode laser welding, once limited to compact disks, laser printers, and laser pointers, are now making their way to the manufacturing floor. Welding Type 304 Stainless steel (0.024 inch), Titanium foil (0.005 inch thick) and laser brazing with a silicon-bronze brazing wire.

2001

• Flame brazing 5XXX aluminum alloys using non-corrosive flux.

2002

• Still researching.

2003

• 2nd International Brazing & Soldering Conference is held in San Diego where 80 papers will be presented in three days. The first conference was held 33 years earlier in 1970.

2004

• Still researching.

2005

• Still researching.