Two of the three OptiPro eSX machines installed at ERPOC's new facility.

One of OptiPro's newest customers, E.R. Precision Optical Corporation

located in Orlando, FL, will be hosting an open house on April 27th from 2:30 PM to 7:00 PM to showcase their brand new facility! If you were planning on attending the SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing trade show taking place April 26th through the 28th in Orlando, we encourage you to make the short trip to ERPOC's new facility for their open house on Wednesday the 27th.

Download ERPOC's Open House Flyer.

There will be limos picking people up at 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, and 5:30 from the convention center to their downtown facility at 805 W. Central Blvd. Check out ERPOC's three new OptiPro eSX optical grinding machines in operation at the open house! You will also be able to see their crystal growers in their new Materials Division, as well as their optical finishing center. Enjoy drinks and snacks while viewing first hand the full scope of ERPOC's capabilities.

For more information and to sign up early for a time that fits your schedule, please contact Kevin Ward, Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing at ER Precision Optical: 512-983-4500 or kward@eroptics.com.

About ER Precision Optical Corporation: ERPOC is a diverse manufacturing company that holds over 150 years of industry experience combined. ERPOC prides itself on producing the highest quality optics for a multitude of applications and purposes. The ever-growing scope for high precision and high energy optics extends from defense and aerospace to science, medical, and technology industries. For more information, check out their website at www.eroptics.com.

The PRO 80GTS lens generator

OptiPro Systems launched their new line of machines for low, medium and high volume production of precision optics. The PRO 80 Series includes the PRO 80G or GTS (Grinder, Twin-Spindle as an option), PRO 80P (High speed spherical polisher), and the PRO 80UFF (UltraForm Finishing for aspheres). This unprecedented PRO 80 Series is the result of over 25 years of excellence in engineering by OptiPro's advanced team of engineers and technicians. The unique modular concept packs a lot of capability into a compact footprint. Integrated is OptiPro's newly developed powerful CNC graphical user interface making them easy to use for even complex optical components. With powerfully simple job-setups, exceptional ergonomics, highest quality machine components and robust spindles, the PRO 80 series provides competitively priced machines built completely in the USA!

The PRO 80G generator is capable of grinding spherical and aspheric lenses in optimal cycle times with high precision. The PRO 80P is a high speed spherical lens polisher for workpieces up to 80 mm in diameter. Fast setups and cycle times are achieved with the PRO 80P, yielding high production of spherical optics. The PRO 80UFF (First unit already sold to Kreischer Optics) utilizes OptiPro's patented sub-aperture polishing system called UltraForm Finishing (UFF). The innovative UFF process incorporates a moving belt of polishing material wrapped around a precision compressive wheel delivering 1/4 wave or better accuracies. With bound and loose abrasives, the PRO 80UFF can polish a wide range of materials, including optical glasses, optical ceramics, and stainless steel injection mold inserts.

OptiPro's UltraCURV electronic spherometer

Customer's have asked, and OptiPro has delivered a new cost effective electronic spherometer upgrade option. This upgrade package includes a new electronic precision globe, OptiPro's UltraCURV software and a new netbook computer. If you have an old electronic spherometer that is inaccurate or just collecting dust, then this cost effective solution is for you. The software package provides sagita and radius of curvature measurements for spherical optics using a ring cup or a 3 point base arrangement. If you need additional capacity, our UltraCURV device is a precision, easy to use electronic spherometer for radius verification.

For more information on this offer, please contact David Mohring at 585-265-0160 or send emails to dmohring@optipro.com.

In our continuing effort to give our customers the best possible parts, service, and support, we are happy to announce that Cam McSain has been appointed as our new Service Coordinator and will be in charge of answering service phone calls and setting up appointments between OptiPro's technicians and our customers. Previously Alex DiNicola was the contact and he will now be focusing solely on technical support over the phone. In the future, if you need to set up a service appointment, please direct your call to Cam McSain at 585-265-0160 ext. 242. If you would like to receive technical support over the phone, please call Alex DiNicola at ext. 244. As always, for machine parts please continue to contact Dave Ernst at ext. 223.