Our story
Cavitar Ltd was founded in October 2004 by a group of researchers led by Dr. Taito Alahautala, at the Optics Laboratory of Institute of Physics at Tampere University of Technology after extensive research on applying diode lasers in industrial applications.
In the start-up phase, Cavitar received its first substantial funding in 2006 from two Finnish capital investors: VNT Management Ltd and Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. From there on, the focus was on completing the first products and bringing them to the customers with a certainty that this diode laser illumination technology would bring never-before-seen benefits even to challenging applications such as welding monitoring.
The company had a very strong belief in its products: CAVILUX illumination lasers and also a belief in the upcoming CAVIPRO processing laser technology. Agreements with the first distributors were made in 2007.
At first CAVILUX illumination lasers were used primarily by researchers, first in Finland but soon also in other countries too, and for various purposes such as materials sciences, combustion studies and ballistics. And that is exactly what CAVILUX products were initially designed for – to be excellent and versatile tools for studying and monitoring fast and otherwise demanding processes with an incredibly high degree of accuracy.
Soon the R&D laboratories of the corporate world also started adopting CAVILUX products as tools to improve their research work. Many research partnerships were created with R&D customers, and these same partnerships continue to be important for Cavitar.
In 2008, the first CAVILUX illumination lasers were adopted into an industrial monitoring system for 24/7 welding monitoring. The first CAVIPRO -processing lasers were delivered to a customer in 2010 to be used in industrial production.
Today Cavitar has a turnover of €1 million (2010), and employs 15 people. Cavitar is growing steadily by providing its state-of-the-art diode laser illumination technology for industrial monitoring systems and its unique processing laser units for systems integrators.
