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Potomac Photonics, Inc. Partners with Owings Mills [Maryland] High School 
in Free P-Tech Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Training Program

Baltimore, MD; March 1, 2022: Potomac Photonics, Inc., a worldwide leader in advanced manufacturing, is pleased to announce our participation in the Owing Mills [Maryland] High School Pathways in Technology Early College [P-Tech] program as an industry partner.  As part of the immersive 4 to 6-year learning experience, Potomac will hire students as interns in…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • March 18, 2022

Potomac Photonics Honored with Baltimore County New Directions Award

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • November 8, 2015

Potomac Photonics’ Digital Fabrication Brings Iterative Design Process to Asthma Research at Anderson Cancer Center

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • July 27, 2015

Potomac’s Rapid Prototyping of Custom Microfluidic Devices Featured in Commercial Micro Manufacturing Magazine

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • May 27, 2015

Potomac Photonics Invited to Demo at NASA Technology Day on Capitol Hill

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…

  • Mike Adelstein
  • April 22, 2015

Potomac Photonics announces FAST TRACK Program to Fabricate Custom Microfluidic Devices

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • February 24, 2015

Excimer Laser Pioneer Adds UV Laser Micromachining Contract Service Capabilities

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • January 15, 2015

Potomac Serves as Program Chair for Interactive DigiFabCon

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 Photonics
  • October 20, 2014

Potomac Awarded $100,000 Maryland Industrial Partnership Grant to Increase Microfluidic Device Production

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • August 11, 2014

Digital Fabrication Service Provider Potomac Photonics Expands Website with 3D Printing Section

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….

  • Potomac Photonics
  • July 29, 2014

Potomac Photonics Micro-3D Prints Map of UMBC 4,000x Smaller than the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus

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…

  • Potomac Photonics
  • July 1, 2014

Mike Adelstein on Micro Manufacturing in Maryland: Measuring a Business in Micrometers!

MDBIZ News is a publication of the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development. It’s position is that “Maryland is a great place for business” and to promote that it provides stories about the news and newsmakers in Maryland business. MDBIZ recently spoke with Potomac CEO Mike Adelstein about his company and plans for grow….

  • Potomac Photonics
  • June 18, 2014