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Edmund Optics is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2017. The company was founded as Edmund Salvage in 1942, receiving surplus optical supplies from the US army in Philadelphia to repair and sell. The firm now has more than 800 employees, with manufacturing in the USA, Japan, Singapore, Southern China, as well as sales offices in Europe.
2017 EPIC AGM in
Benno Oderkerk, CEO and co-founder of Avantes, has been appointed president of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC).
AMS Technologies has established a design centre in Krakow, Poland. The new centre will specialise in design and proof of concept, as well as supporting the transfer of the resulting prototype into volume production after customer sign-off.
Trumpf is to expand its group management effective from 1 July. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop and Christian Schmitz will be joining the company’s managing board. Both have been active in the company for many years, the company said.
Princeton Lightwave’s CEO and CTO, Dr Mark Itzler, has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Dr Itzler is being recognised for achievements in the development and commercialisation of avalanche photodiodes.
Everlight Electronics has established a $300 million factory in Taiwan. It features a smart, ergonomic design for the production of automotive LED components.
Eindhoven: Ewit Roos, left, from PhotonDelta,
shares ambitious plans for European Photonics competitiveness with Carlos Lee from EPIC
NEWS FROM EPIC By Carlos Lee, director general, EPIC
The Netherlands: a leading photonics innovation hub
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he 2017 EPIC Annual General Meeting was hosted by the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. It
proved to be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the status and ambitions of the various photonics players in The Netherlands. There are around 200 photonics-related companies and research organisations in the country, and many public photonics activities, including a national exhibition and a national association. More and more in a fragmented industry such as photonics, companies are realising that the way to keep up with exponential technology demand is to work together, which only works with trusted technology partners within a truly collaborative network. We’re seeing more companies working with emerging SMEs; at the EPIC AGM, for instance, there was a presentation by Airbus in which Nikolaus Schmitt (senior expert Optronic Systems) detailed the challenges the company faces and how photonics technologies could provide answers. Ewit Roos, managing director of PhotonDelta, an EPIC AGM sponsor, believes that many industry challenges can be solved by its members, who consist of companies and organisations directly or indirectly involved as supplier, end user or a financer across the integrated photonics value chain. That’s why the company has recently
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established the PhotonDelta Cooperative, a collaborative online platform and knowledge sharing tool for PhotonDelta members and partners to share knowhow and pre-published intellectual property under a secure environment. PhotonDelta complements this by
developing a series of deep-dive long-term strategy conferences. These are intended to kick-start international discussions about the optical technologies needed two decades from now. ‘Without roadmaps, there will be a mismatch between the
“Leading photonics researchers will gather [in The Netherlands in June] to develop the first global integrated photonics systems roadmap ”
technologies society needs and what research and industry can deliver,’ explained Roos. That’s why PhotonDelta has decided to co-organise the World Technology Mapping Forum, to be held from 14 to 16 June in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, where many CTOs and leading photonics researchers will gather to develop the first global integrated photonics systems roadmap. EPIC strongly supports this initiative since a successful outcome of the forum will provide the right technology investments, at exactly the moment that they are needed.
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