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Companies Demonstrate the High Quality of the County’s Business Community November 7, 2015; Baltimore County, MD:  Potomac Photonics is honored to have been selected as one of the 2015 Baltimore County New Directions Award recipients.  The annual award is made to companies located in the county that are on the leading edge of engineering, manufacturing…

CAD-based laser micromachining allows designers to make quick, economical design changes July 23, 2015; Baltimore, MD:  Using CAD-based Digital Fabrication tools, Potomac Photonics is able to provide designers with a quick, economical method to test and change designs.  A research team at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston recently implemented the…

May 27th, 2015; Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics’ new program for rapid prototyping custom microfluidics devices was recently featured in Commercial Micro Manufacturing, a UK-based magazine for micro, high-precision and MEMS manufacturers. The feature article explains how Potomac uses digital fabrication technologies such as micromilling, laser micromachining, and hot embossing replication for a new type of…

April 21, 2015; Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics, who has had a number of collaborations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], has been invited to participate in the 2015 NASA Technology Day on the Hill happening April 29 from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. The interactive event shows how American investment in space technology has…

February 24, 2015; Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics, a leader in micro-fabrication for the medical device and biotech industries, announces FAST TRACK, a new manufacturing process to quickly and economically build complete custom microfluidic devices. From a .DFX format CAD drawing, Potomac can generate and precisely replicate channel designs in a polymer substrate, laser micro-machine vias…

January 15, 2015; Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics, a pioneer in the R&D and manufacture of excimer lasers for the medical device and biotech industries, recently tapped Coherent to increase the number of ultraviolet lasers in the company’s micromachining contract service production facility. Potomac’s digital fabrication center at bwtech@umbc includes lasers from the infrared to the…

Exploring the Impact of 3D Printing and Digital Fabrication Technologies on the World as We Know It October 20, 2014; Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics has been tapped to serve as the Program Chair for the annual DigiFabCon. The interactive Digital Fabrication Conference will come to the Maritime Conference Center in Baltimore, MD on November 17,…

Potomac in partnership with UMBC is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Maryland Industrial Partnership [MIPS] to enhance manufacturing capacity of innovative hot embossed microfluidic devices. In addition, as part of the agreement, we will make cash and in-kind contributions of labor, equipment, and supplies.  The MIPS program…

3D Systems 3D Printer Re-seller & 3D Printing Contract Service Provider Adds Technical Information, Application Guidance and Equipment Details in Interactive Online Resource Potomac Photonics, Inc., a Micro Digital Fabrication company based at the bwtech@umbc research and technology park in Baltimore, Maryland, has expanded its website to reflect increased focus on new additive manufacturing activities.…

July 1, 2014, Baltimore, MD: Potomac Photonics, an industry leader in micro Digital Fabrication including 3D Printing, has 3D printed a tiny map of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County [UMBC] Campus at 1/4,000 of its original full scale. Potomac used a model generated by aerial robotic photography for the digital source of the 3D…

Innovation has become a buzzword, often used simply as a marketing communications tool, but here at Potomac, we’re immersed in innovation on a daily basis. Since our founding in 1982 by Dr. C. Paul Christensen, Potomac has been on the cutting edge – pun intended – of micro digital fabrication starting with laser micromachining utilizing…

June 4, 14; Baltimore, MD Digital Fabrication industry leader Potomac Photonics, Inc. will present a workshop in the 3D Systems 3D Printing 2.0 series on June 20 from 2 to 4 p.m.  Although there is no charge to attend, space is limited so please click here to register online. The program is an overview of…