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Revolutionizing Leak Testing / Container Closure Integrity (CCIT) with Potomac Photonics’ Rapid Turnaround Hole Drilling Capabilites
Container Closure Integrity Testing (CCIT) is crucial for ensuring the sterility and safety of packaging in pharmaceutical and other critical industries. Potomac Photonics, a leader in the field, offers rapid turnaround leak testing services to meet this growing demand. By…
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DuPont Kapton Polyimide: Versatile Applications and Potomac Photonics’ Expertise in Laser Micro Machining
Introduction DuPont’s Kapton polyimide is a high-performance polymer known for its exceptional electrical insulation, mechanical strength, and resistance to extreme temperatures and chemicals. As a result, it has become an indispensable material across various industries, including medical, biotech, electronics, aerospace,…
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Laser Drilling of Port Holes for Microfluidic Devices
Microfluidic devices are a type of miniaturized lab-on-a-chip technology that have been gaining popularity in recent years. These tiny devices are used to manipulate and analyze very small quantities of fluids, and they have a wide range of applications in…
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Potomac Accelerates Shadow Mask
Manufacturing Speeds
Every day, disruptive technologies allow humans to enter a new world that brings innovations to life. Whether battling climate change by reducing the amount of fossil fuel burning, helping autonomous vehicles navigate roads, guiding man to Mars, or cleaning up…
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Did Theranos Prove Lab On a Chip is Not a Viable Technology?
Theranos has been a nightmare for legitimate medical diagnostics researchers and startups because Lab On a Chip technology was at the center of the failed blood testing startup. Once Silicon Valley and Wall Street darlings, Theranos made headlines not just…
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Potomac Photonics Designs and Fabricates Innovative Dental Tool to Comply with COVID Protocols.
Potomac scientists and engineers innately see a problem and, especially in this time of Covid, can’t help but jump in to innovate a solution. Just that happened when Potomac senior research scientist, Natalia Christensen, visited her dentist for an annual…
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Potomac Celebrates MfgDay By Exploring Advanced Manufacturing Career Options
Each October manufacturers, led by the National Association of Manufacturers, focus on the career opportunities that manufacturing brings to a wide range of industries. This year Manufacturing Day is October 2 and while plant tours and other in-person activities are…
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Potomac PPT Drives Innovation with Breakthroughs for Laser Welding Clear Plastic Parts
Potomac has many competitive advantages that has made it a leader in the advanced manufacturing industry. We offer the fastest turnaround times, often as quickly as 24-hours; our quality control systems are second to none; and the wide range of…
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Microfluidic Device to counter the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) crisis in healthcare.
March 2020, Astek Diagnostics LLC, won the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) Award to develop a microfluidic device to detect bacterial infections in blood and evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility. Astek, in partnership with Potomac Photonics Inc., will be designing a state-of-the…
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Black Lives Matter: From Rhetoric to Action for US Companies
We are seeing so many emails and blog posts from companies that say: “We Stand With Black Lives Matter Protesters”. But when all is said and done, how does a company move beyond rhetoric to action? Saying you support the…
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Protecting People in a Time of Coronavirus at the Speed of Light
The modern world is an interconnected ecosystem and this heartwarming story that started with a cat named Ace shows how fast responses changes lives for our customers. Ace Heidi Leonard is a research chemist at NIST, the National Institute of…
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Potomac Photonics on the Front Lines of Coronavirus Personal Protective Equipment Manufacturing
Necessity is truly the mother of invention and the war against the coronavirus has created a worldwide wave of innovation to fight the pandemic. No need is greater than the protection of healthcare workers, front line support, emergency teams, firefighters,…
