Reprints of important news coverage from major trade publications.
| OPCO Laboratory, Provider of (One-Stop) Optics Focuses on International Markets for GrowthJune 2011 -- Fitchburg-based OPCO Laboratory has grown tremendously since its founding in 1976, expanding its breadth of in-house services and focusing on quick response to inquiries, problem solving, and fast delivery times. Well-known in the United States for its ability to provide exceptional-quality customized complex and unique optics, electro-optical assemblies and coating services in very short turnaround times, the company is now attracting more and more business from international medical, opthalmic, surgical, biomedical equipment, and defense/aerospace OEMs. |
| New State-of-the-Art 45" Vacuum Coating System with Ion AssistJune 2011 -- To further enhance our IR and FIR coating capability, OPCO announces the installation of a new state-of-the-art 45" vacuum coating system with ion assist, to be operational in June 2011. |
| NASA LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) program, to study moons exosphereDecember 18, 2009 -- OPCO Laboratory is working with Dr. David Landis, President of Aurora Design & Technology, to manufacture custom optical components for instrumentation in the LADEE program, a robotic spacecraft, that will orbit the moon. |
| NASA Mars Science Laboratory Chemical & Camera program, to study rocks and soil on Mars December 4, 2009 -- OPCO Laboratory, working with Dr. David Landis, President of Aurora Design & Technology, has manufactured custom optical components that will be used in the upcoming Mars Science Lab (MSL) mission, to be launched in 2010. |
| NASA Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite spacecraft confirms the presence water on moonNovember 19, 2009 -- As part of OPCO’s strategic business plan to provide custom optics for the space and aerospace industries, OPCO is proud to have played an important and vital role in the confirmation of water‐ice on the moon. |
| Optical Replication Provides Cost-Effective, Volume Production of Complex Optical SurfacesThe OPCO proprietary Replication Process reproduces complex optics with unsurpassed surface accuracy, quality, and repeatability. |
