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Omega Optical Acquired by Artemis Capital Partners

OMEGA OPTICAL ACQUIRED BY ARTEMIS

New Chapter of Innovation & Strategic Growth at Leader in

Precision Optical Filters and Coatings

 

Brattleboro, VT (September 15, 2020) – Omega Optical (Omega or the Company), a leading manufacturer of precision optical filters and coatings, announced today that it has been acquired by Artemis Capital Partners (Artemis), a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on partnering with differentiated industrial technology companies.

 

Omega has been recognized as an innovator in precision optical filters and coatings since its founding in 1969 by Dr. Robert Johnson. The Company’s filter products are designed and fabricated to control the passage of light and enable a broad range of mission-critical optical applications including flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, spectroscopy, LiDAR, machine vision, and satellite imaging for global OEM customers in the life science, aerospace & defense, instrumentation, semiconductor, environmental and industrial sensor industries.

 

“Having recently celebrated our first fifty years as a Company, we are delighted to partner with Artemis and continue growing the Company here in Vermont for the next fifty years,” said Omega Founder Dr. Robert (Bob) Johnson.

 

Omega’s Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Smith added, “With the strategic support of Artemis, we gain critical additional resources to build on Omega’s legacy here in Brattleboro.  We will continue to pursue further job growth and employee development and be an active member of both the local community and the greater Vermont economy.  Artemis’s understanding of our core markets, technology and value proposition allowed us to quickly align on the key priorities for Omega’s next phase of growth.  Our customers and channel partners can count on a seamless transition and an unwavering focus on quality, delivery, and exceptional application expertise.”

 

“In Omega, we saw a company with an innovative culture, exceptional technical capabilities, and a desire for growth. Omega’s deep applications expertise, OEM business model and differentiated technologies are signature characteristics of an Artemis partner company.” said Peter Hunter, Managing Director at Artemis and new Chairman at Omega. “Now more than ever, we believe that Omega is uniquely positioned to grow both organically and inorganically.”

 

Euan Milne, Vice President at Artemis and new Board member at Omega indicated: “We are thrilled to partner with the talented Omega team and are honored to help build on the longstanding success of the Company. Omega represents the first company of Artemis’s Optical Technology platform, which will serve the growing global demand for high precision, no-fail optical coatings, components and assemblies.”

 

Artemis recruited John Ippolito, an experienced photonics industry executive, to join the Omega Board and provide assistance with corporate development activities, including targeting and integrating future acquisitions. Ippolito said, “Omega is a great first step in pursuit of building a larger optics business. The Company has a strong position in several high growth end markets that we can build upon. We intend to be active acquirers of complementary businesses to quickly get to greater scale with an expanded product offering.”

 

Omega's existing management team of Thomas Smith, Chief Executive Officer, and Dr. Robert Johnson, now Omega’s Technical Director,  have retained a significant ownership interest in the Company, now known as Omega Optical, LLC, and will continue to lead the business going forward.  Omega will continue to operate as an independent company from its headquarters in Brattleboro, VT.

 

Omega Optical

Founded in 1969, Omega Optical designs and manufactures precision optical filters and coatings enabling mission-critical optical applications for global OEM customers in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, environmental monitoring, aerospace, defense, semiconductor, and more. From prototyping to production, Omega has the breadth of capabilities, technical experience, and ISO 9001:2015 quality management to consistently deliver the light you need. For more information on Omega Optical, please visit: www.omegafilters.com

 

Artemis

Founded in 2010, Artemis Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and growing manufacturers of differentiated industrial technologies, including optics and photonics. Artemis seeks to partner with companies that have strong established management teams, outstanding engineering capabilities, unique products, and expanding niche markets. For more information on Artemis, please visit: www.artemislp.com.

 

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Media Contact:

Bob Mann

Vice President of Sales and Marketing 

bmann@omegafilters.com

Mobile: +1 508 292 0906

Phone: +1 802 251 7328

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Omega products aid in COVID-19 detection

The most common COVID-19 testing protocols utilize fluorescence quenching assays and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). For example, in the TAQman assays (from Roche Diagnostics), there is fluorescence quenching (dark green circle) within the DNA-binding probe specific to a particular DNA sequence (dark blue). This probe can be specific to viral, bacterial or any other specific DNA sequence in a sample. As TAQ-polymerase (purple oval) replicates the single-stranded DNA (light blue), it encounters the labeled probe and cleaves the nucleotides off, releasing the fluorescent moiety (bright green circle).  When excited with blue light, this compound glows green. The fluorescence is proportional to the number of DNA sequences the probe finds in the sample. If the signal is too low after a single polymerization step, the sample can be heated to separate the two strands of DNA and the process is repeated. These machines are often also called thermocyclers because the heating system cycles on with each round of replication. As with all fluorescence methods, filters are required to specifically excite the fluorophores and separate the fluorescence signals from scattered light.

A list of stock filter sets for the common PCR dyes are listed below.

These are 25 mm round for excitation and emission filters and 25.7x36 mm for dichroics designed to work at 45 degrees. We also have extensive plate stock and components available, so contact us if you have special configuration requests or  you don’t see what you’re looking for here.

Fluorophore Ex Max (nm) Em Max (nm) Suggested Filter Set
SYBR green 497 520 XF404
Cy-5 651 670 XF416
FAM 494 520 XF404
JOE 520 548 XF405, XF402
VIC 538 554 XF405, XF402
HEX 535 556 XF405, XF402
NED 546 575 XF405, XF402
PET 556 595 XF402
ROX 575 602 XF424
TAMRA 555 580 XF402
TET 521 536 XF405, XF402
Texas Red 595 615 XF424

 

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