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Department News
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Taft Presents $859,691 Award to Opticast
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In partnership with BGSU and Spectra Group Limited to create 50 new jobs
Alex Mejeritski,
Center for Photochemical Sciences alumni (Ph.D. 1997), was instrumental
in garnering over $850,000 for OptiCast, a Findlay-based company, to commercialize
cheaper eyeglasses and create 50 new, good jobs within five years. Alex
is employed by Spectra Group Limited, Inc. (SGL), a research and development company
based in Toledo.
This project is in collaboration with SGL and the
Center for Photochemical Sciences' new Photoinstrumentation and Photopolymerization
Laboratory at BGSU. This new laboratory received a $2 million Third Frontier Wright Capital Project Fund
award in June (read more. . .) to further its development
as a resource to assist companies such as OptiCast in commercializing photochemical
technology.
OptiCast
manufactures and sells a low cost manufacturing system that allows prescription
polymer eyeglass lenses to be produced inexpensively for the customer at
the point of sale -- in less than five minutes. The Third Frontier
Action Fund award will be used to add new, commercially attractive features
to OptiCast's existing system such as scratch resistance, anti-reflective
coatings and greater durability. In addition, the company is working
on lenses for the military and laboratory applications that contain dyes
for blocking laser light.
October 23, 2003
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