APPLIED IMAGE Group announced the acquisition of MICROTRONICS Inc, a key USA based “mask maker”. MICROTRONICS manufactures glass masks for the semiconductor, hybrid, MEMS, and electro-optical industries. Masks are primarily used to transfer electro-optical designs from the glass imaged plates (that MICROTRONICS manufactures) to the wafer, which becomes the final microelectronic or electro-optical components themselves....Continue Reading

Semrock is very proud to announce that they have recently shipped their one millionth filter. Semrock was founded in 2000, but it wasn’t until 2004 that the company decided to apply their hard coated optical filter technology primarily to the biotechnology and optical instrumentation market.  Semrock has seen tremendous growth in those 8 short years...Continue Reading

When Governor Andrew Cuomo came to Rochester New York for the finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council presentation on Tuesday, November 28, one of the video presentations he saw was about RRPC member OptiPro. Wake up, Albany!  Optics, Photonics and Imaging are a key strategic economic advantage of Western New York!  Without OPI there is...Continue Reading

Rochester Precision Optics has decided to relocate its Manchester, NH Plastic Optics Division to their recently expanded Rochester, NY facility. Moving the Plastic Optics Division into the main facility will allow the manufacturing group to fully access all of the engineering and manufacturing support services within our main facility (i.e. Accounting, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, Material...Continue Reading

The Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster is pleased to announce that its new website is now online. Developed and hosted by RRPC member Innovative Solutions, the site has been redesigned to help promote and sell the services of our members. We were lucky to have so many photographs sent to us by members and are pleased...Continue Reading

Miniaturized piezoelectric motion modules move hundreds of lenses with micrometer precision, contributing to unprecedented image detail in the wide-field-of-view camera developed at Duke University Victor, NY – November 7, 2012 – New Scale Technologies’ M3 focus modules have been designed into the next-generation AWARE cameras, the ground-breaking gigapixel cameras developed at Duke University and featured...Continue Reading

MCC 23rd Annual Salute to Excellence Thursday, November 15, 2012 Rochester Riverside Convention Center 5:30 p.m. General Reception; 6:30 p.m. Dinner and Awards 2012 Salute to Excellence Award Recipient: Corning Incorporated Foundation Honorary Committee Chair: Donald McCabe, Sr. Vice President, Manufacturing & Performance Excellence, Corning Incorporated 2012 MCC Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees: Mr. James...Continue Reading

The Rochester Top 100, now in its 26th year, ranks privately held companies based on three most recent years of revenue growth. Companies must have at least $1 million in revenue for each of those years, and rankings take into account both dollar and percentage growth. Companies in the Rochester Top 100 nominate themselves. 182...Continue Reading

Grant will fund cutting-edge research and development of hand-held eye scanner Rochester, NY Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) visited Rochester-based medical technology firm Lumetrics today to announce a $973,000 research and development grant from the National Institutes of Health – National Eye Institute. The NIH grant will fund development of a digital hand-held diagnostic ophthalmic instrument...Continue Reading

The Rochester Regional Optics, Photonics and Imaging Accelerator The Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster is one of the awardees in The Rochester Regional Optics, Photonics and Imaging Accelerator consortium. The three-year $1.7M grant from a group of five federal agencies will be used to accelerate the growth of small and medium-sized optics, photonics, and imaging companies...Continue Reading