Lightwave Logic expands its Colorado operations
Lightwave Logic has announced the completion of new laboratory production facilities, expanding the corporate facility in Englewood, Colorado by nearly 10,000 square feet for a total of approximately 23,500 square feet to support new commercial activity. The technology platform company focuses on leveraging its proprietary electro-optic polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power in a small form factor to improve the efficiency of internet infrastructure. According to the Computing Technology Industry Association, Colorado's tech industry has an economic impact of $52.6 billion, or 12.2% of the state's economy, fifth highest among all states.
The renovations and installation of new laboratory and engineering facilities expands the size of the Lightwave Logic's Englewood facility by over 65%, enabling commercial device testing and evaluation, production reliability testing, laser characterization, SEM analysis and the expansion of the company's chemical synthesis production line. The facility will support the company's recently added employees, including organic chemists as well as photonics, packaging and reliability engineers who will bring the company's team to 33 members.
"As we enter into this exciting new phase of advancing our commercial business plans, we believe that we now have the team and the facilities in place to make our electro-optic polymers ubiquitous," said Dr. Michael Lebby, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic. "This additional space allows us to grow our technical capabilities to produce, evaluate and improve our electro-optic polymer materials. The space will be utilized to support commercial material supply and license agreements – such as our recent first agreement – to provide Perkinamine chromophore materials for polymer based photonic devices and photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Combined with several new experienced engineers, we are quickly ramping our operational capabilities to support our commercialization effort and positioning Lightwave Logic for the future, which should be exciting news to our customers and shareholders alike."
