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New York Photonics “Second Tuesday” Networking Please join us on Tuesday, February 9th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm for February 2016 New York Photonics networking. The event will take place at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC). There will be a bar and plenty of hors d’oeurves to sustain your networking and science inquiry fervor. This time we will have a facilitator on hand for the Science On A Sphere...Continue Reading

We will be distributing the 2016 Map with our members at select SPIE conferences in 2016.Continue Reading

Contestants will hone pitching skills to gain backing for new photonics products Semi-finalists have been named in the annual SPIE Startup Challenge, where new entrepreneurs pitch their light-based technology products to a panel of venture capitalists and business development experts. Semi-final and final rounds are held at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco in February, with finals open to the public. Semi-finalists seeking support for their new photonics-based product proposals...Continue Reading

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today it has issued a Notice of Intent to fund up to two institutes as part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). For its first institutes, the Commerce Department will provide up to a total of $70 million per institute over five to seven years. Commerce funding must be matched by private and other non-federal sources....Continue Reading

The first in our annual series of second Tuesdays will be at the Rochester Museum and Science Center from 5:00 to 7:30 PM. New York Photonics “Second Tuesday” Networking Please join us on Tuesday, January 12th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm for the New York Photonics first networking mixer of 2016. The event will take place at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC). The RMSC is a fitting location to...Continue Reading

38 representatives from New York Photonics Optics, Photonics and Imaging companies convened on Monday,  December 14th to discuss the role of small and medium-sized businesses (SME’s) in AIM Photonics.  AIM Photonics is one of the key institutes in president Obama’s National Network of Manufacturing Innovation.  Vice President Joe Biden was in Rochester to announce AIM Photonics on July 27th, 2015. The meeting was hosted by New York Photonics, and included...Continue Reading

Western New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes Region, home to the nation’s Optics, Photonics and Imaging (OPI) industry, has won one of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Upstate Revitalization (URI) awards.  The award is worth $500M to the region over the next five years.  The announcement was made at the Governor’s awards ceremony in Albany today, December 10th, 2016. OPI is one of the three pillars represented in the Finger Lakes Application, along with...Continue Reading

Fire has affected at least four Northeast optics manufacturers in recent years, destroying inventory, machines and even entire buildings.Continue Reading

“[Andy Germanow is]…like his father and his grandfather were before him, in the manufacturing business. G-S Plastic Optics makes precision components for medical devices, and his metal working operation Tel-Tru makes thermometers and pressure gauges. The other finalists for the Reshaping Rochester 2015 Robert Macon Award turned old buildings into lofts and a hotel, or built new apartments and retail space. The 115-year-old building at 408 St. Paul St. is,...Continue Reading

The Rochester Optics Community has lost a beloved member of our family.  Rick Nasca died suddenly on Tuesday night, December 2nd.  He was only 57. Rick spent his entire career at Tropel, and was optical manufacturing / finishing technology leader.  He was passionate about optics education and devoted a great deal of time to MCC’s program on behalf of Corning, recognizing and rewarding students in the industry, and encouraging young people...Continue Reading