News & Events

Join your peers at SPIE Optifab 2013,  14-17 October, the largest optical fabrication event in North America and it only happens every other year in Rochester, New York! At Optifab you’ll find research AND industry – a unique format that lets you gain valuable insight into the optical fabrication market by maximizing interaction between leading international researchers and manufacturers. There is still time to reserve exhibition space. Don’t miss this...Continue Reading

It’s nearly June, and June is when Rochester hosts the RRPC Optics Summer Sizzler! Will you help with a contribution?  Do you know of someone else that will? For our printable informational flyer, click here. This year, in addition to students from East High School and Gates Chili High School, we are welcoming students from Greece Olympia High School.  By 2014, all three schools will be teaching Monroe Community College dual-credit optics. How...Continue Reading

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act is just months away. New regulations are coming. Is your company prepared? In the wake of Health Care Reform: Will you play or pay? Are you subject to penalties? Is your plan affordable? What is your strategy? REGISTER HERE Join John Godsoe, attorney with Bond, Shoeneck and King and Kim Olek, Vice President with First Niagara Benefits Consulting as they answer all of these questions and more. Will...Continue Reading

Features include 3D surface reconstruction, allowing user to produce 3D surface error map with a 2D contact profilometer and work piece rotation. OptiPro Systems, LLC continues their dedication to advance precision optics manufacturing technology with the development of new features to their Aspheric Profilometer Data Analysis Software, OptiTrace, enhancing the capabilities of the OptiTrace 5000 contact profilometer (http://www.optipro.com/asphere-measurement.html). Among the new features are multiple profile loading and 3D surface reconstruction,...Continue Reading

Exelis Geospatial Systems (GS) is creating 50 new local jobs in Rochester’s Eastman Business Park in 2013. The new job opportunities in Rochester result from consolidation of the company’s presence in West Springfield, Mass. GS is working toward transitioning all work to Rochester by early July and staffing will be completed in phases, with the most critical roles being filled first.  Approximately a dozen Exelis employees from West Springfield will...Continue Reading

Dear Industry Partner, As you know, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find qualified, trained people. Monroe Community College offers training for many of these necessary skills, but we need your help to demonstrate what exciting careers exist regionally in Advanced Manufacturing, Electronics, Optics, Precision Machining, Engineering, and Computer Information Technology. On Thursday, April 25, 2013 we are hosting our fifth annual High-Tech Career Exploration Night and we hope...Continue Reading

Full scholarships are available for continuing education courses THIS SUMMER in optics, photonics, and imaging. These courses will provide specialized skills and professional development with some of the leading minds of the field. Courses offered at both the University of Rochester and RIT. These courses are geared toward displaced workers who would like to work in one of the OPI industries, people who have jobs outside of the OPI industries...Continue Reading

RRPC members are already benefitting from subsidized assistance for their manufacturing operations as part of the $1.7 Million Rochester Regional Photonics Jobs Accelerator program, part of the national Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. High Technology of Rochester is working with manufacturing companies in the optics, photonics and imaging cluster. The goal is to work with 12-15 companies per year for three years, based upon each individual company’s specific...Continue Reading

At the invitation of RRPC, EFP Rotenberg and BDO are pleased to present a seminar entitled Maximizing Research and Development Tax Credits.  This important seminar will help your organization take full advantage of Federal and State tax credits. What is R&D Tax Credit? Despite the fact that the Research and Development (R&D) credit has been available since 1981, less than a third of eligible companies recognize that they qualify for...Continue Reading

from the SPIE Newsroom: Representatives of government and the photonics industry convened in Washington, DC on 28 February for a day-long event intended to raise awareness of the role of photonics and plan for its future in the U.S. economy and everyday life. The event was a followup to the groundbreaking National Academy of Sciences report “Optics & Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation,” released in August 2012. Four members of...Continue Reading