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Potomac in the News: Baltimore Sun and Manufacturing Talk Radio Features Micro-manufacturing and the Factory of the Future
Potomac Photonics greatly appreciates when our innovations in advanced manufacturing and workforce development are recognized. Recently, two media outlets talked with our President and CEO Mike Adelstein, as well as our staff, to explain our unique 21st century approach to…
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CEO Mike Adelstein Credits Partnerships in Baltimore Area for Potomac Photonics’ Success
In a recent interview on Baltimore NPR station WYPR, Potomac President and CEO, Mike Adelstein, explained how partnerships with organizations in the Baltimore area have contributed to our success. Creating the Jobs of the Future Mike emphasized that our…
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Baltimore County Partnership Helps Potomac Change the World
Potomac is thrilled to have recently been featured on a new video from Baltimore County, highlighting recipients of the government-sponsored Boost Fund. The flexible loan program is designed to help small businesses in growth industries by providing capital in order…
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President Obama Proclaims National Week of Making
Starting June 17, we’re excited that the White House is celebrating a National Week of Making throughout the country. From schools to fab labs and makerspaces, manufacturing plants to tech centers, and universities to after-school programs, special events are taking…
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Potomac’s Affordable Microfluidic Device Rapid Prototyping Helps Windgap Medical Bring New Product to Market
At Potomac, we find that helping startups prototype and manufacture new designs in order to bring groundbreaking products to market is especially rewarding work. Our advanced manufacturing collaborations with innovators stretch our capabilities and challenge our own solution-solving skills. Windgap…
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New Potomac R&D Notebook Sheds Light on Internal Programs for Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Advanced manufacturing services involve more than just feeding CAD files into a 3D Printer, laser micromachining workstation or micro CNC machine. To best service our customers in the biotech, medical device and microfluidics industries, Potomac has had to stay at…
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Helping the New Jersey Institute of Technology with New Microfluidics Techniques for Analysis and Personalized Medicine
Microfluidics is a fast-moving field on many levels, and we’re seeing new, innovative techniques being developed to fabricate devices that will impact chemical analysis, personalized medicine and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sagnik Basuray’s group in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical…
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Precision Laser Micromachining to Help Launch a Polytechnique Montréal CubeSat into Space
At Potomac we’re used to seeing some of the most interesting – and challenging – miniaturization projects on the planet. Recently we helped a Canadian university group miniaturizing for a space application. Polytechnique Montréal is competing in the Canadian Satellite…
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IR Laser Patterning of ITO to Help Basic Physics Research at MIT and Harvard
Patterning Transparent Conductive Oxide [TCO] layers on substrates such as glass or plastic is a familiar laser micromachining application at Potomac. We’ve developed innovative ways to pattern the TCO layer without damaging the underlying substrate. But we usually see TCO’s…
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Potomac Photonics in the News with Advanced Manufacturing for Biotech and Medical Device Industries
Recently Potomac Photonics has been in the news bringing perspective to advanced manufacturing for the biotech and medical device markets. Symposium on Bio-medical Additive Manufacturing On March 4, Mike Adelstein was part of a panel discussion at the RAMPMD Symposium…
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Potomac’s Real-Time Wall Thickness Measurement Produces Consistent Repeatable Laser Drilling for Calibrated Leak Test Holes
Pharmaceutical, medical, and biotech companies are required by the FDA or internal standards to periodically test the vials or ampules for cracks, pinholes and the seal integrity of the cap/closure that can cause potential liquid leakage or contamination. Potomac has…
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Advanced Manufacturing Trends in 2016 at Potomac Photonics
2016 promises to be another year of explosive innovation in advanced manufacturing. Several emerging applications, especially in the biotech and medical device industries, are driving Potomac Photonics to deliver ever more complex and sophisticated solutions to these new challenges. Here…
