Also in the news . . .
Sol-gel optics manufacturer Geltech Inc. (Orlando, FL) has consolidated operations into a new Orlando, FL, facility. Company headquarters were previously located in Alachua, FL, while precision-optics manufacturing division PMO, acquired from Corning Inc. (Corning, NY) in 1994, moved from Painted Post, NY. . . . Hughes Electronics subsidiary Spectrolab Inc. (Sylmar, CA) is upgrading its solar-cell production facility with the addition of three metal-oxide chemical-vapor-deposition systems from Emcore Corp. (Somerset, NJ). . . . The Seagate Software Storage Management Grou¥(Lake Mary, FL) has joined the board of the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), a 45-company manufacturers` association designed to promote optical data storage. Other companies on the 13-member OSTA board include Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), Fujitsu Computer Products of America (San Jose, CA), and Hewlett-Packard Co. (Greeley, CO). . . . Focus Software Inc. (Tucson, AZ) has released LensVIEW, a CD-ROM database of more than 9000 patented optical designs. The database can be searched under 57 different optical parameters. . . . LightPath Technologies Inc., formerly of Tucson, AZ, has relocated to Albuquerque, NM. LightPath manufactures Gradium axial gradient-index glass. . . . JML Optical Industries Inc. (Rochester, NY) has established a World Wide Web page at http://www.jmlopt.com; the company plans to offer on-line ordering.