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pad\">\n <div class=\"kicker rise d1\">\n <span>Vimfun \u00b7 Evidence<\/span>\n <span class=\"doc-id\">REF \/ ABOUT-04<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <h1 class=\"rise d2\"><span class=\"u\">Proven Germanium Cutting Equipment<\/span> \u2014 the cases behind the claim<\/h1>\n <p class=\"standfirst rise d2\">Not a brochure line. Three real deployments, customer-reported yield numbers, and the kerf math on germanium that runs $1,800\u20132,400 a kilogram.<\/p>\n <\/header>\n\n <section class=\"ledger rise d3\">\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">30<small>+<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Vimfun saws at Sunny Optical<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">~30<small>%<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Yield gain reported after the switch<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">0.35<small>mm<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Wire kerf vs 5\u201310 mm core-drill<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">12\u201318<small>mo<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Cutting-only payback, multi-shift<\/div><\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <article class=\"pad\">\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <div class=\"has-note\">\n <div class=\"body\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 01 \u2014 The claim, tested<\/span>\n <h2>What does proven germanium cutting equipment actually mean?<\/h2>\n <p class=\"lead-cap\">It means an install base you can name and yield numbers a customer will put on the record. Proven germanium cutting equipment is not the machine with the prettiest spec sheet \u2014 it is the one already cutting production germanium on someone else's floor, at volume, and being re-ordered.<\/p>\n <p>The economic case starts at the kerf. Optical-grade germanium trades at $1,800\u20132,400 per kilogram, so every cut you take is a line on the bill of materials. A closed-loop diamond wire removes a 0.35\u20130.5 mm kerf where a core-drill removes 5\u201310 mm \u2014 worth roughly $200\u2013600 saved on a single 200 mm ingot.<\/p>\n <p>The cut also decides the work downstream. Wire-cut germanium comes off at Ra 0.6\u20131.2 \u03bcm with 8\u201315 \u03bcm TTV over 50 mm and shallow subsurface damage, so the grinder can skip a roughing pass and the polisher inherits less to remove. Clean edges mean fewer chips, which means less scrap on material you cannot afford to scrap.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <aside class=\"note\">\n <div class=\"nt\">Margin note<\/div>\n <p><b>$200\u2013600 saved per 200 mm ingot<\/b> from kerf alone. At 50 ingots\/month, material savings clear $240k\/year \u2014 before any yield gain.<\/p>\n <\/aside>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 02 \u2014 Where the money is<\/span>\n <h2>Where the kerf savings actually come from<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment pays back in three places, and only one of them is the cut itself. Knowing which is which is how you size the ROI honestly.<\/p>\n <h3>Material kept in the part, not the slurry<\/h3>\n <p>Core-drilling removes a whole cylindrical shell per blank; pulling four 80 mm blanks from a 200 mm ingot can lose 30\u201340% of the input to the process. Wire contour-cutting follows the perimeter, so kerf scales with path length, not with the volume of material destroyed.<\/p>\n <h3>Scrap avoided at the edge<\/h3>\n <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystran.co.uk\/optical-materials\/germanium-ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germanium<\/a> cleaves along its {111} planes; an unsupported core-drill exit chips 0.3\u20130.8 mm deep as a geometric certainty, not an operator error. Each chip is scrap or an extra grinding allowance. Wire cutting leaves chipping under 0.1 mm.<\/p>\n <h3>Hours moved from rework to output<\/h3>\n <p>Lower subsurface damage and consistent TTV let grinding and polishing run as production rather than defect repair \u2014 the quiet 15\u201325% of throughput that a clean front-end gives back.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 03 \u2014 On the record<\/span>\n <h2>Who has put it into production?<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment means named floors, not anonymized testimonials. Three deployments, at three very different scales, tell the story.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"casefile\">\n <div class=\"tab\"><span>Case file 01 \u00b7 Sunny Optical (CN)<\/span><span class=\"src\">Source: customer-reported<\/span><\/div>\n <div class=\"in\">\n <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyoptical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunny Optical<\/a> (HKEX 2382) came to wire cutting not for incremental savings but for a part grinding-from-blank could not hold: a crescent-shaped germanium thermal lens \u2014 roughly 73 \u00d7 53 mm, with R6 and R1 transitions, a 110\u00b0 top bevel and an 85 mm spherical face. An SGI 20 cut the contour directly on a CNC path. Once the team saw the same machine also handled routine puck slicing and rod cutting, they scaled out to <span class=\"pullnum\">30+ machines<\/span> across multiple sites and reported a <span class=\"pullnum\">~30% production-yield improvement<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"casefile\">\n <div class=\"tab\"><span>Case file 02 \u00b7 Turkish thermal OEM + Dutch optics shop<\/span><span class=\"src\">Source: deployment records<\/span><\/div>\n <div class=\"in\">\n <p>A Turkish thermal-imaging integrator bought a complete turnkey germanium line in one purchase \u2014 SGI saw, C-185L centering, G-250 grinder, aspheric polisher and AR chamber \u2014 commissioned under a single delivery window for defense and homeland-security optics. A Dutch precision-optics shop took the opposite path: it kept its existing grinding, polishing and coating, and swapped only the front-end cut, recovering the wire-saw investment <span class=\"pullnum\">inside one fiscal year<\/span> on kerf savings alone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Across all three, the same pattern holds: cutting-only payback lands at 12\u201318 months on multi-shift use, and first-year material savings exceed first-year equipment cost. The numbers below are the typical observed ranges \u2014 your grade and geometry move them.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"clients\">\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">0.35\u20130.5 mm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Wire kerf (vs 5\u201310 mm core-drill)<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">Ra 0.6\u20131.2 \u03bcm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">As-cut surface roughness<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">8\u201315 \u03bcm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">TTV over a 50 mm wafer<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">< 0.1 mm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Edge chipping<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">~30%<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Yield gain (Sunny, reported)<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">12\u201318 mo<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Cutting-only payback<\/div><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <figure class=\"plate\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/trusted-infrared-optics-equipment-supplier-install.jpeg\" alt=\"proven germanium cutting equipment \u2014 Vimfun closed-loop wire saw running on a customer optics floor\" loading=\"lazy\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none';this.nextElementSibling.style.display='grid';\" title=\"Vimfun glass cutting equipment is a perfect machine tool for precision cutting\">\n <div class=\"ph\" style=\"display:none\">[ Image unavailable ]<\/div>\n <figcaption><span class=\"pl\">PLATE I<\/span><span>A Vimfun closed-loop wire saw on a customer production floor \u2014 used with permission.<\/span><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <div class=\"has-note\">\n <div class=\"body\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 04 \u2014 On your material<\/span>\n <h2>How do we prove it on your germanium, not someone else's?<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment on another customer's lens does not guarantee the same on yours \u2014 grade, ingot quality and downstream process all move the result. So we test before we promise.<\/p>\n <ul class=\"facts\">\n <li><span class=\"k\">Sample cut<\/span><span class=\"v\">After contract, we cut <b>your own<\/b> germanium on the actual machine model and return measured kerf, Ra and TTV.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">FAT<\/span><span class=\"v\">Factory acceptance records provided; where we lack a metrology tool in-house, we supply samples for your lab.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">ROI inputs<\/span><span class=\"v\">Per-ingot savings scale with diameter; payback scales with monthly volume \u2014 we model both with your numbers.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">Materials<\/span><span class=\"v\">Same platform proven on Ge; parameters re-derived per material by test cut, not copied.<\/span><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <aside class=\"note warn\">\n <div class=\"nt\">Fair warning<\/div>\n <p>The yield figures here are <b>customer-reported, not lab-controlled<\/b>. We quote ranges, not a single hero number, and we will run your sample before committing to anything \u2014 if your case won't clear the payback math, we'll tell you.<\/p>\n <\/aside>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 05 \u2014 Where it fits<\/span>\n <h2>Where this sits in the germanium line<\/h2>\n <p>Cutting is the front end. The evidence on this page is about that first operation, but the value compounds only when the downstream stations inherit a clean, low-damage blank under one tolerance budget.<\/p>\n <p>That is the whole argument for proven germanium cutting equipment as the entry point: get the cut right and every station after it runs as output instead of repair. The cases above are simply that argument, measured.<\/p>\n <p>To see the rest of the line, start at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/infrared-optics-processing-equipment\/\">infrared optics manufacturing equipment<\/a> hub, walk the five stages on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/germanium-lens-manufacturing-equipment\/\">germanium lens manufacturing<\/a> solution page, and look at the front-end machine itself on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/germanium-lens-blank-cutting-machine\/\">germanium lens blank cutting machine<\/a> page. For the company behind the cases, see why we're a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/trusted-infrared-optics-equipment-supplier\/\">trusted infrared optics equipment supplier<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/article>\n\n <footer class=\"signoff pad\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 06 \u2014 Next step<\/span>\n <h2>Send us your hardest germanium cut<\/h2>\n <p>The fastest way to judge proven germanium cutting equipment is to put your own part in front of it. 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pad\">\n <div class=\"kicker rise d1\">\n <span>Vimfun \u00b7 Evidence<\/span>\n <span class=\"doc-id\">REF \/ ABOUT-04<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <h1 class=\"rise d2\"><span class=\"u\">Proven Germanium Cutting Equipment<\/span> \u2014 the cases behind the claim<\/h1>\n <p class=\"standfirst rise d2\">Not a brochure line. Three real deployments, customer-reported yield numbers, and the kerf math on germanium that runs $1,800\u20132,400 a kilogram.<\/p>\n <\/header>\n\n <section class=\"ledger rise d3\">\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">30<small>+<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Vimfun saws at Sunny Optical<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">~30<small>%<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Yield gain reported after the switch<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">0.35<small>mm<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Wire kerf vs 5\u201310 mm core-drill<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"cell\"><div class=\"fig\">12\u201318<small>mo<\/small><\/div><div class=\"lab\">Cutting-only payback, multi-shift<\/div><\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <article class=\"pad\">\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <div class=\"has-note\">\n <div class=\"body\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 01 \u2014 The claim, tested<\/span>\n <h2>What does proven germanium cutting equipment actually mean?<\/h2>\n <p class=\"lead-cap\">It means an install base you can name and yield numbers a customer will put on the record. Proven germanium cutting equipment is not the machine with the prettiest spec sheet \u2014 it is the one already cutting production germanium on someone else's floor, at volume, and being re-ordered.<\/p>\n <p>The economic case starts at the kerf. Optical-grade germanium trades at $1,800\u20132,400 per kilogram, so every cut you take is a line on the bill of materials. A closed-loop diamond wire removes a 0.35\u20130.5 mm kerf where a core-drill removes 5\u201310 mm \u2014 worth roughly $200\u2013600 saved on a single 200 mm ingot.<\/p>\n <p>The cut also decides the work downstream. Wire-cut germanium comes off at Ra 0.6\u20131.2 \u03bcm with 8\u201315 \u03bcm TTV over 50 mm and shallow subsurface damage, so the grinder can skip a roughing pass and the polisher inherits less to remove. Clean edges mean fewer chips, which means less scrap on material you cannot afford to scrap.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <aside class=\"note\">\n <div class=\"nt\">Margin note<\/div>\n <p><b>$200\u2013600 saved per 200 mm ingot<\/b> from kerf alone. At 50 ingots\/month, material savings clear $240k\/year \u2014 before any yield gain.<\/p>\n <\/aside>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 02 \u2014 Where the money is<\/span>\n <h2>Where the kerf savings actually come from<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment pays back in three places, and only one of them is the cut itself. Knowing which is which is how you size the ROI honestly.<\/p>\n <h3>Material kept in the part, not the slurry<\/h3>\n <p>Core-drilling removes a whole cylindrical shell per blank; pulling four 80 mm blanks from a 200 mm ingot can lose 30\u201340% of the input to the process. Wire contour-cutting follows the perimeter, so kerf scales with path length, not with the volume of material destroyed.<\/p>\n <h3>Scrap avoided at the edge<\/h3>\n <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystran.co.uk\/optical-materials\/germanium-ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germanium<\/a> cleaves along its {111} planes; an unsupported core-drill exit chips 0.3\u20130.8 mm deep as a geometric certainty, not an operator error. Each chip is scrap or an extra grinding allowance. Wire cutting leaves chipping under 0.1 mm.<\/p>\n <h3>Hours moved from rework to output<\/h3>\n <p>Lower subsurface damage and consistent TTV let grinding and polishing run as production rather than defect repair \u2014 the quiet 15\u201325% of throughput that a clean front-end gives back.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 03 \u2014 On the record<\/span>\n <h2>Who has put it into production?<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment means named floors, not anonymized testimonials. Three deployments, at three very different scales, tell the story.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"casefile\">\n <div class=\"tab\"><span>Case file 01 \u00b7 Sunny Optical (CN)<\/span><span class=\"src\">Source: customer-reported<\/span><\/div>\n <div class=\"in\">\n <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyoptical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunny Optical<\/a> (HKEX 2382) came to wire cutting not for incremental savings but for a part grinding-from-blank could not hold: a crescent-shaped germanium thermal lens \u2014 roughly 73 \u00d7 53 mm, with R6 and R1 transitions, a 110\u00b0 top bevel and an 85 mm spherical face. An SGI 20 cut the contour directly on a CNC path. Once the team saw the same machine also handled routine puck slicing and rod cutting, they scaled out to <span class=\"pullnum\">30+ machines<\/span> across multiple sites and reported a <span class=\"pullnum\">~30% production-yield improvement<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"casefile\">\n <div class=\"tab\"><span>Case file 02 \u00b7 Turkish thermal OEM + Dutch optics shop<\/span><span class=\"src\">Source: deployment records<\/span><\/div>\n <div class=\"in\">\n <p>A Turkish thermal-imaging integrator bought a complete turnkey germanium line in one purchase \u2014 SGI saw, C-185L centering, G-250 grinder, aspheric polisher and AR chamber \u2014 commissioned under a single delivery window for defense and homeland-security optics. A Dutch precision-optics shop took the opposite path: it kept its existing grinding, polishing and coating, and swapped only the front-end cut, recovering the wire-saw investment <span class=\"pullnum\">inside one fiscal year<\/span> on kerf savings alone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Across all three, the same pattern holds: cutting-only payback lands at 12\u201318 months on multi-shift use, and first-year material savings exceed first-year equipment cost. The numbers below are the typical observed ranges \u2014 your grade and geometry move them.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"clients\">\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">0.35\u20130.5 mm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Wire kerf (vs 5\u201310 mm core-drill)<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">Ra 0.6\u20131.2 \u03bcm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">As-cut surface roughness<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">8\u201315 \u03bcm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">TTV over a 50 mm wafer<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">< 0.1 mm<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Edge chipping<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">~30%<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Yield gain (Sunny, reported)<\/div><\/div>\n <div class=\"c\"><div class=\"nm\">12\u201318 mo<\/div><div class=\"ds\">Cutting-only payback<\/div><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <figure class=\"plate\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/trusted-infrared-optics-equipment-supplier-install.jpeg\" alt=\"proven germanium cutting equipment \u2014 Vimfun closed-loop wire saw running on a customer optics floor\" loading=\"lazy\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none';this.nextElementSibling.style.display='grid';\" title=\"Vimfun glass cutting equipment is a perfect machine tool for precision cutting\">\n <div class=\"ph\" style=\"display:none\">[ Image unavailable ]<\/div>\n <figcaption><span class=\"pl\">PLATE I<\/span><span>A Vimfun closed-loop wire saw on a customer production floor \u2014 used with permission.<\/span><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <div class=\"has-note\">\n <div class=\"body\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 04 \u2014 On your material<\/span>\n <h2>How do we prove it on your germanium, not someone else's?<\/h2>\n <p>Proven germanium cutting equipment on another customer's lens does not guarantee the same on yours \u2014 grade, ingot quality and downstream process all move the result. So we test before we promise.<\/p>\n <ul class=\"facts\">\n <li><span class=\"k\">Sample cut<\/span><span class=\"v\">After contract, we cut <b>your own<\/b> germanium on the actual machine model and return measured kerf, Ra and TTV.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">FAT<\/span><span class=\"v\">Factory acceptance records provided; where we lack a metrology tool in-house, we supply samples for your lab.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">ROI inputs<\/span><span class=\"v\">Per-ingot savings scale with diameter; payback scales with monthly volume \u2014 we model both with your numbers.<\/span><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"k\">Materials<\/span><span class=\"v\">Same platform proven on Ge; parameters re-derived per material by test cut, not copied.<\/span><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <aside class=\"note warn\">\n <div class=\"nt\">Fair warning<\/div>\n <p>The yield figures here are <b>customer-reported, not lab-controlled<\/b>. We quote ranges, not a single hero number, and we will run your sample before committing to anything \u2014 if your case won't clear the payback math, we'll tell you.<\/p>\n <\/aside>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <div class=\"block\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 05 \u2014 Where it fits<\/span>\n <h2>Where this sits in the germanium line<\/h2>\n <p>Cutting is the front end. The evidence on this page is about that first operation, but the value compounds only when the downstream stations inherit a clean, low-damage blank under one tolerance budget.<\/p>\n <p>That is the whole argument for proven germanium cutting equipment as the entry point: get the cut right and every station after it runs as output instead of repair. The cases above are simply that argument, measured.<\/p>\n <p>To see the rest of the line, start at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/infrared-optics-processing-equipment\/\">infrared optics manufacturing equipment<\/a> hub, walk the five stages on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/germanium-lens-manufacturing-equipment\/\">germanium lens manufacturing<\/a> solution page, and look at the front-end machine itself on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/germanium-lens-blank-cutting-machine\/\">germanium lens blank cutting machine<\/a> page. For the company behind the cases, see why we're a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/trusted-infrared-optics-equipment-supplier\/\">trusted infrared optics equipment supplier<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/article>\n\n <footer class=\"signoff pad\">\n <span class=\"sec-no\">\u00a7 06 \u2014 Next step<\/span>\n <h2>Send us your hardest germanium cut<\/h2>\n <p>The fastest way to judge proven germanium cutting equipment is to put your own part in front of it. Send your ingot diameter and length, the finished-lens geometry and your monthly volume \u2014 we return a configuration, the kerf and ROI math on your numbers, and a free sample-cut offer, usually within one working day.<\/p>\n <a class=\"cta-line\" href=\"mailto:daria@endlesswiresaw.com?subject=Germanium%20cutting%20\u2014%20sample%20cut%20%26%20ROI%20math\">\n <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.2\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"\/><\/svg>\n Request a sample cut & ROI math\n <\/a>\n <\/footer>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n-->\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proven Germanium Cutting Equipment | Vimfun Case Files Vimfun \u00b7 Evidence REF \/ ABOUT-04 Proven Germanium Cutting Equipment \u2014 the cases behind the claim Not a brochure line. Three real deployments, customer-reported yield numbers, and the kerf math on germanium that runs $1,800\u20132,400 a kilogram. 30+Vimfun saws at Sunny Optical ~30%Yield gain reported after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticalcutting.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}