Optometrics Corporation In Ayer, Massachusetts, Receives State Loan To Expand Optical Component Manufacturing
06/20/2014
The equipment will also help Optometrics provide additional services to existing customers and expand its other product lines to boost growth. Optometrics anticipates creating 10 jobs in the next year with 26 more employees by 2017, bringing total anticipated employment in Massachusetts to 70 people.
Optometrics, a subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of America, designs, engineers, and manufactures a line of optical products and components that are sold throughout the United States and the world.
“We appreciate the assistance of both MassDevelopment and the Ayer IDFA in providing funding for this important step in the growth of Optometrics,” said Laura Lunardo, Optometrics’ COO. “Our success in the development of this new product for a well-known electro-optics manufacturer has been transformational for our company.”
“We’re pleased to provide this loan to help Optometrics expand and partner with manufacturers around the country, creating and retaining highly-skilled manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts,” said MassDevelopment President/CEO Marty Jones. “North-central Massachusetts is a hotbed of manufacturing activity in the Commonwealth thanks to cutting-edge companies like Optometrics.”
In addition, Ayer’s Industrial Development Finance Authority partnered with MassDevelopment for this financing for one of Ayer’s largest employers, providing a $200,000 loan that supported the equipment purchase and facility upgrades.
David Maher, Ayer’s Director of Economic Development, said, “This partnership between Ayer, MassDevelopment and Optometrics is a great example of supporting the growth in manufacturing in the Middlesex area, but is also an important collaboration, private and public, that will help keep Optometrics as an important part of the Ayer community for many years to come.”
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