OptiGrate Moves to New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Growing Global Demand

ORLANDO, Fla. – OptiGrate Corp recently graduated from the UCF Business Incubation program and moved to a new location to accommodate an increased demand for the firm’s volume Bragg grating (VBG) products and allow for future expansion. The new offices are located in Oviedo, northeast of Orlando in the industrial park near the University of Central Florida. The new 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility increases OptiGrate’s corporate office space and manufacturing facilities by 70 percent and was specially designed and engineered for volume Bragg grating production. The facility -- the only vertically integrated VBG production plant in the world – includes photo-thermo-refractive glass production unit, VBG holographic production unit, and VBG laser application development lab. “We are very pleased that our team succeeded to complete the move to the new facility with minimal interruptions,” Dr. Alexei Glebov, CEO of OptiGrate, said. “The new facility is already fully operational and we renewed shipping our products manufactured at the new plant. The move is a significant achievement for OptiGrate and its team and gives us a great foundation for further growth,” he said. “With the increased capacity and streamlined production we’ll be able to deliver better products faster and more cost efficient, meeting an ever growing demand and expectations from our customers.” said Dr. Glebov. OptiGrate was founded by Prof. Dr. Leon Glebov, faculty in the UCF Center for Research in Electro-optics & Lasers (CREOL), and 3 members of his research group. Among them his wife Larissa Glebova, who has been in charge of glass manufacturing at OptiGrate, and Vadim Smirnov, who currently holds the position of chief technical officer at OptiGrate. The company has exclusive licenses and numerous joint research agreements with UCF.