The Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (SLV) Halle GmbH 2010 celebrates its 80th anniversary in the year 2010. As one of the institutes of the German Institute of Welding and Allied Processes (DVS) e. V. the SLV Halle as one of the most important contact partner for the trade and industry has been able to establish on all fields of welding and thermal cutting. 

No doubt - the successful highlight of the anniversary was the international conference on beam technology "STRAHLTECHNIK 2010“, held in Halle/Saale from 14 to 15 April 2010. It has already been the eighth time that users of laser and electron beams came to Halle.  

The beam technology conference conducted at the SLV Halle since 1996 has meanwhile established as an international forum of new developments on the field of the laser and electron beam technology. The event taking place on a three years basis united professionals from all over the world who informed themselves and exchanged their experience about the latest state-of-the-art on the field of electron beam methods and technology in industrial application and in research and development.  

In almost thirty lectures and poster presentations new ideas, paths of development and results on the field of the laser and electron beam technologies were presented and discussed as well as impulses for the use of the processes were given. The approximately 120 participants came from 10 different countries, i.e. beside of Germany it was Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Great Britain, Austria , Slovakia, the Ukraine and the USA.

Guests of honour were the president of the International Institute of Welding (IIW), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Dilthey and Mr. John Bruskotter, president of the American Welding Society (AWS), the American welding organization.  

In keeping with tradition, an accompanying technical exhibition of renowned suppliers and developers of beam technological equipment and processes, several company visits, among others of the Josch Strahlschweißtechnik GmbH in Teicha and of pro-beam technologies GmbH in Halle (Saale), in advance of the event as well as a festive reception in the State Museum of Prehistory with the visit of the Sky Disk of Nebra enriched the international conference.