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Optimax Named to Rochester Top 100

November 1, 2013

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20FEB

RocGrowth Candids: Featuring Mike Mandina & Rick Plympton, Optimax

This optics company is no traditional success story.  The website states it well:  “We leverage ... Read more
31OCT

Optimax CEO Rick Plympton Receives RRPC Leadership Award

The RRPC Leadership Award recipient for 2016 is Rick Plympton, CEO of Optimax Systems, for working w... Read more
27OCT

Optimax Makes Rochester Chamber Top 100

The Rochester Chamber Top 100, marking its 30th year, is a program of the Greater Rochester Chamber ... Read more
17AUG

Optimax Makes Inc. 5000 List

Optimax has had a three-year growth of 40% and finds itself on the list of the fastest growing compa...
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17AUG

Photonics jobs: Preparing today for future openings

There are three things anyone in Rochester can do right now to better position themselves for a phot...
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27JUL

Summer Advanced Manufacturing Experience program teaches students to explore STEM opportunities

Summer Advanced Manufacturing Experience students tour Optimax Systems Inc. to learn how they can us...
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20MAY

Optimax CFO Tom Kelly Wins RBJ Financial Exec of Year

Five financial executives from the business and non-profit sectors were winners Thursday at the 2016 Financial Executive of the Year Award event.
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20MAY

College Grads: Be Ready for Job Search

  Optimax hires 20 interns for the summer, about two-thirds from colleges and a third from high sch...
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18MAY

Chicago's DMDII Is Putting $12M Into Augmented Reality

The Rochester Institute of Technology, Harbec, Optimax, and OptiPro will make virtual shop floor ...
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14APR

Technology for Starshot Program Could be Developed in Rochester

        Some of those catch ups could happen right here in Rochester...
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14APR

Strengthening Team Member Performance Through Peer Reviews

How does one make a performance review system that honor both the needs of the employee and the comp...
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09MAR

GET A JOB: Finger Lakes Works does just that — works

Finger Lakes Works helped Nelson Clark, who now has a successful career working at Optimax, and Davi...
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06MAR

Six named for HR executive honors

Six local human resources executives will be honored at the third annual HR Executive of the Year Aw...
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04MAR

FLCC FAME Scholarship Winner

Instrumentation and control technologies major Clay Tietjen of Penn Yan received the FAME award of $...
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29JUL

Biden, officials laud photonics hub in Rochester

"You've gone from making Brownie cameras to lenses that are now mapping the far side of Pluto," he told an audience of about 200 people.
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03MAR

WCNY SciTech

Pluto is four and a half billion miles from Earth... but the picture you see of the planet come from...
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29JUL

Photonics a Possible Solution to the Brain Drain

"It's growing and this is a hub for the photonics community and it's just a sign of things to come,"... Read more
24NOV

Winner of Mastercam Innovator of the Future Contest

Mastercam’s IOF competition helps introduce students to real-world manufacturing by challenging th... Read more
03NOV

Optimax products out of this world, literally

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30OCT

Best Practices for Recruiting and Hiring the Long-Term Unemployed

The roundtable discussion was hosted by U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and focus... Read more
30OCT

2014 NYATEP Buiness Leadership Award for Workforce Development

It was with a strong recommendation and a glowing recommendation that Mike and Optimax were selected... Read more
31OCT

Local Manufacturers Shine on Their Day

Nine Rochester-area companies will welcome visitors The day is a coordinated effort of manufacturing... Read more
11SEP

Optical Systems: Transmissive high-energy laser optics: Manufacturing and testing considerations

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26AUG

Employee Spotlight: Joseph Spilman

 Name: Joseph Spilman  Title: Sr. Business Development Manager  Role: Help leverage Optimax... Read more
26AUG

Website: Optimax in Space

New interactive features describing Optimax lenses on-board NASA missions. Optimax is proud to have... Read more
26AUG

Optimax One of Rochester's Top Workplaces

As voted by our employees Rochester Top Workplaces 2014 ranked Optimax ninth for midsized business.... Read more
26AUG

On the Road: SPIE Optics+Photonics

 August SPIE Optics+Photonics Hear the latest research in optical engineering and applicati... Read more
26AUG

OEM Production Optics

Optimax is well known for prototype optical components. With our recent expansion, Optimax has capac... Read more
26AUG

Optics Made in USA

Why manufacturing in the United States is growing and helping our economy thrive Why does Made ... Read more
25AUG

Wayne County High School Teachers Visit as part of STEM Partnership

Grant funds professional development in science, math and engineering instructional practices for Re... Read more
04AUG

Spreading Skills and Opportunity

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27JUL

This Was Not the Land that Kodak Forgot

The Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster sought ways to promote itself and grow jobs in the Rocheste... Read more
27JUL

Shop Solutions: Grinding Optics On CNC Machining Centers

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01AUG

15 Students’ Summer Success at SAME

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01JUL

A Culture of Precision, Performance and Fun

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10APR

Website: Updated Inspection Options & Interactive Manufacturing Tolerance Chart

Inspection Options Optimax now offers three different inspection data options, including a custom... Read more
10APR

The Estimator: Estimate the Cost of Your Prototype Optics

The Estimator is a unique tool designed to allow an optical designer to input parameters and adjust ... Read more
09APR

Rochester's Top Workplaces 2014

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09APR

How 23,000 Rochester-area jobs go unfilled

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03APR

Mike Mandina Speaks at National Fund for Workforce Solutions

The National Fund for Workforce Solutions partners with businesses, communities, and philanthropy to... Read more
05MAR

Vice President Joe Biden Visits MCC

Optimax President, Mike Mandina, introduces Vice President Joe Biden at an MCC Career Event followin... Read more
20FEB

A Conversation with Mike Mandina on Workforce and Meeting President Obama

It has been an exciting few weeks for Mike Mandina – spending time with  both Vice President Bide... Read more
17FEB

Executive Perspectives On The World Of Optics And Photonics

At Photonics West 2014 ,seven top executives from photonics and optics companies offered insights on... Read more
05FEB

Optimax Systems' Plympton on Executive Perspectives Panel at Photonics West

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28FEB

Local Company Gets More Answers from White House Worker Training Programs

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30JAN

Employers must help advance the K-12 process

The Common Core and teacher evaluation programs are making front-page news. Regents Wade Norwood and... Read more
30JAN

Bidens' visit put a focus on training for

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30JAN

VP Joins Optics Companies in Praising Job Training

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22JAN

Employers must be at school-improvement table

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17DEC

A Chance to Win a $1,000 Scholarship

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17DEC

Manufacturing Hope: Optimax's Realistic Optimist

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01NOV

Optimax Named to Rochester Top 100

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01NOV

Optimax recognized for creating jobs

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28OCT

Employee Spotlight: Tom Starin

Title: Accountant Experience: Revenue and Profitability Analyst, Xerox Corporation Education: ... Read more
10OCT

Innovation: Optimax Sponsors Slope Tolerance Webinar

Optical Society of America: Surface Slope Tolerances This webinar will describe the effects of surf... Read more
10OCT

On the Road: Optifab

SPIE Optifab is the largest optical fabrication event in North America, and it only happens every ot... Read more
10OCT

What's New: Asphere Production Cell

What: Precision asphere manufacturing lean cell Capabilities: This will allow us to create rotation... Read more
28OCT

Optimax Supports the National Photonics Initiative

Optimax is proud to support and help drive the National Photonics Initiative seeking to raise awaren... Read more
19SEP

Jimmy VanKouwenberg Wins RRPC Education Award

The RRPC Education Award went to James Van Kouwenberg, training coordinator and master optician at Optimax Systems (Ontario, NY), for "inspiring students to embrace Optics, Photonics, and Imaging sciences and guiding them in career development." Read more
12SEP

Optimax expands coating facility

Optimax has completed a new optical coating facility that is the third and final phase of a $10 mill... Read more
06SEP

Experts: B+L layoffs shouldn't hurt local optics industry

Optics and imaging has changed immensely over years, but one thing is for certain — Rochester is a... Read more
05SEP

Summer Optics Sizzle Camp

Under the guidance of local optics professional and educators, 26 high school students from East, Ga... Read more
03SEP

Optimax completes coating facility expansion

Optimax has completed the third and final phase of a $10 million optical coating facility project th... Read more
30AUG

Optimax finishes $10 million expansion

Optimax announced it has completed an optical coating facility, the final phase of a $10 million expansion project that started in 2011 and has created more than 50 jobs. Read more
22AUG

Optimax Named to Inc.'s list of fastest-growing private firms

More than 20 companies from the Rochester region made Inc. magazine’s list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies. Optimax ranked 3,787. Read more
01AUG

Eleven students graduate from MCC's Summer Advanced Manufacturing Experience

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28AUG

2013 NAVY Tap Forum: Importance of Small Business

Learn from Navy leaders about the success rates commercialization, and hear from congressional members on the importance of small business to the economy. Read more
01AUG

Funding for University Research Grants

Being a leader and active participant in the optics industry allows Optimax to give back through loc... Read more
01AUG

Coating Expansion: 4,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility fully operational July 2013

Coatings are a critical and often risky step in the manufacturing of complex optical  systems. You'... Read more
01AUG

Innovation: Optimax Sponsoring Webinars

Optimax is helping  create recognition for manufacturing technology through webinars. The following... Read more
01AUG

Employee Spotlight: Anne Tausch

Title: Key Account Manager Experience: More than 20 years of technical sales and management in th... Read more
02APR

Maffei takes listening tour to Wayne County

Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY) hosted a small business round table discussion Saturday at Brantling Ski and ... Read more
28MAR

Couple who are coaches balance work, family

Hard work in service of a career goal on a distant horizon isn’t specific to sports.... Read more
25MAR

Tax Rebate for Hiring Veterans

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25MAR

Irondequoit students observe high-tech manufacturing jobs

It takes only a quick glance around the factory floors at Optimax and OptiPro, two optics companies ... Read more
05MAR

Innovation: Optimax Receives Two SBIR Phase II Awards

Sapphire Window & Corrector Optic Optimax is pleased to announce it has received two Phase II ... Read more
05MAR

Education: The Next Generation of Opticians

Optimax was proud to participate in a career fair for the second grade students at Palmyra-Macedon E... Read more
28JUL

Video: Visionary ideas

Visionary ideas, working capital and manufacturing prowess have allowed high tech industry to reshape the local economy, and give new meaning to the phrase Made in Rochester. Optimax is one of these companies featured in this Channel 8 news story. Read more
24JAN

Hitachi Case Study

"If you get the right combination of people and continue to recruit and develop them you can do grea... Read more
25FEB

20 Years of Innovation - Rochester Engineering Society Magazine

Founded in 1991, Optimax was one of the first optics manufacturers to use computer-controlled machin... Read more
15JAN

20 Years of Innovation - SPIE Professional

Optimax was founded 21 August 1991 by four guys who believed computer controlled machining of brittl... Read more
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