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Galileo Loses $20.4 Million Account for Photocopier Component

Apr 1, 1997 — Galileo Corp. of Sturbridge, Mass., has received written notification that Xerox Corp. has developed internal production capabilities for dicorotron assemblies, electronic components used in photocopiers, and will no longer buy them from Galileo. Xerox was Galileo's largest customer and accounted for $20.4 million, or 48 percent, of the company's revenues for fiscal 1996. This shift will result in a considerable financial loss for Galileo, but President and CEO William Hanley is confident that...

Israeli Defense-System Manufacturer Reorganizes for Geographic Focus

Apr 1, 1997 — Israeli high-tech defense system manufacturer Elecro-Optics Industries Ltd. has undergone a structural reorganization, dividing the company into geographic market areas. The Israel, Asia-Pacific, North America and Civilian Systems divisions will...

Judge Issues Injunction Against DOE's National Ignition Facility

Apr 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- In December 1996, Thomas Cochran, director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, smelled something foul about the National Academy of Sciences' technical review of the proposed $1.1 billion National Ignition Facility. Three months...

Nippon Electric Awards Solar Contract

Apr 1, 1997 — CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Japan's Nippon Electric Co. has awarded the contract for Solar Array Drive Assemblies and the associated electronics for its Optical Interorbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite program to Schaeffer Magnetics Inc. The...

Outdoor Laser Safety Is in the Hands of the FAA

Apr 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- Laser safety issues are again on the bargaining table. This time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is facing the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the impetus is a series of incidents involving lasers and...

UK Photonics Exhibition Continues to Grow

Apr 1, 1997 — BIRMINGHAM, UK -- The fourth Image Processing & Optic Technology exhibition in February introduced more than 2000 people to the latest photonics technology from more than 100 companies. The general attitude of exhibitors and attendees at the...

Founder, CEO Kenrick Leaves OptoSigma

Mar 1, 1997 — Paul Kenrick, founder and chief executive officer of OptoSigma Corp. of Santa Ana, Calif., has left the company because of differences with its backers. Kenrick founded the catalog optics company in 1995 with the Japanese firm Sigma Koki. Isao...

Galileo Gets Federal Go-Ahead to Market Gynecological Endoscope

Mar 1, 1997 — The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Galileo Corp. of Sturbridge, Mass., a 510(k) approval for the marketing of its rigid hysteroscopes for gynecological procedures. The approval comes on the heels of an earlier federal blessing to market...

Joint Effort Aimed at Outpatient Vascular Lesion Market

Mar 1, 1997 — A strategic alliance between medical-laser manufacturer Laserscope of San Jose, Calif., and Medical Alliance Inc. of Irving, Texas, will focus on marketing Laserscope's Aura laser system for the office-based treatment of vascular lesions. Medical...

OEM Agreement Targets New Digital Imaging Markets

Mar 1, 1997 — In an original equipment manufacturing agreement between Everest Imaging of Austin, Texas, and Computational Systems Inc. (CSI) of Knoxville, Tenn., CSI will develop new software for its digital imaging instrumentation, and Everest will market the...

Steel Companies Start Laser Welding Joint Venture

Mar 1, 1997 — Under a planned joint venture agreement, Olympic Steel Inc. of Cleveland and USX-US Steel Group of Pittsburgh will form a new laser welding business that will process laser-welded sheet steel blanks. Plans for the new entity, named Olympic Laser...

Alcatel to Install SONET Equipment for North American Network

Feb 1, 1997 — Alcatel Telecom of Richardson, Texas, will install approximately $100 million in synchronous optical network (SONET) equipment for MFS Communications Co. Inc. of Omaha, Neb. Alcatel has begun shipments of its 1603/12 and 1648 SM SONET multiplexers...

Candela Receives Federal Approval for Skin-Resurfacing Laser

Feb 1, 1997 — The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Candela Corp.'s Er:YAG Skinlight laser for marketing in the US. The Wayland, Mass.-based company said that the device provides high average power and minimal thermal damage to skin. The company also...

Coherent Continues Strategic Buys in Semiconductor Laser Market

Feb 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Coherent Inc., acquiring the pieces it believes are necessary to unlock the puzzle that is the laser market's future, followed up its purchase of Finnish wafer maker Tutcore with the acquisition of microchip-laser manufacturer...

FDA Approves Sale of Galileo Endoscopes for Medical Applications

Feb 1, 1997 — The US Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) approval to Galileo Corp. of Sturbridge, Mass., for the sale of its rigid endoscopes used in medical applications. Physicians use the devices, which range in size from 1.7 to 10 mm in diameter,...

Fiber Optic, Cable Companies Connect

Feb 1, 1997 — DAYVILLE, Conn. -- In a move aimed at taking advantage of the expanding fiber optic cable market, SpecTran Corp. of Sturbridge, Mass., and General Cable Corp. of Highland Heights, Ky., have formed a joint-venture company to develop, manufacture and...

Gerber Systems, Agfa Join to Develop and Market IR Imaging Tools

Feb 1, 1997 — A joint venture of Gerber Systems Corp. of South Windsor, Conn., and Agfa, a division of Bayer Corp. of Ridgefield Park, N.J., will focus on the development and marketing of infrared imaging technology in the printed circuit board industry. The...

Go West, Young Job-Seekers

Feb 1, 1997 — SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- A $2 billion gravy train is winding its way from Washington, D.C., to this aptly named California town, and Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space says there's room for 3000 more wagons. When added to as many as 1500 new high-tech...

Photonics Makes Refinery a Good Neighbor

Feb 1, 1997 — RODEO, Calif. -- As part of a "good neighbor" agreement, Unocal Corp. plans to incorporate seven infrared, ultraviolet and laser sensors into what it calls the world's most comprehensive refinery air-monitoring system. The agreement ends two years...

Photonics Projects Win $13.5 Million in US Funding

Feb 1, 1997 — ARLINGTON, Va. -- Eighteen photonics projects won $13.5 million in National Science Foundation awards.The winners were selected from among 76 proposals related to how light interacts with matter. Following are the winning projects, institutions, and...

Simplex Technologies to Make 5800 km of Cable for Undersea Networks

Feb 1, 1997 — Newington, N.H.-based Simplex Technologies Inc. will manufacture a 4400-km undersea fiber optic cable system for AT&T's Pan American cable system, according to a $35 million contract between the two companies. Slated for operation in June 1998,...

Texas Instruments Agrees to Sell Defense Business to Raytheon

Feb 1, 1997 — Officials at Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., and Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) of Dallas have signed a definitive agreement worth almost $3 billion authorizing Raytheon to acquire TI's defense electronics operations. The transaction will bring...

World Trade Pact Gives Photonics a Boost

Feb 1, 1997 — SINGAPORE -- Designed to even the global playing field, the Information Technology Agreement signed in December by 28 member countries of the World Trade Organization removes tariffs on many high-tech products, which should result in major gains for...

Bright Days Seen Ahead for Optical Coating Industry

Jan 1, 1997 — NORWALK, Conn. -- Steady growth through the turn of the century is the forecast for the worldwide optical coating market, says a report from Business Communications Co. Inc. (BCC). The growth is expected to be buoyed by expanded use in medical and...

Chrysler Stays Ahead With High-Power CO-2 Lasers

Jan 1, 1997 — KOKOMO, Ind. -- With Chrysler Corp.'s recent purchase of 11 14-kW CO2 lasers from Convergent Energy, the automaker furthered its commitment to stay ahead of the Big-Three domestic auto manufacturers when it comes to laser machine tools. The addition...

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