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Company expands into medical implant manufacturing Rocky Hill, Conn., August 4, 2011 – Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for technology investing and innovation development, today announced that it has provided $1.2 million in funding to Oxford Performance Materials LLC (OPM) of South Windsor, Conn., through its BioScience Facilities Fund. OPM will use the funding for the purchase of an EOSINT P 800 selective laser sintering machine

EAST HARTFORD, CT – The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) Laser Applications Laboratory (LAL) has worked with the Trumpf (Farmington, CT) to bring the first Trumpf TruMicro 7050 in the United States to CCAT’s facility to evaluate for various process evaluation trials. The TruMicro 7050 is an example of a new disk laser technology that Trumpf has been developing. Unlike Q-switch Nd:YAG lasers which have limited pulse width, frequency, and average powers;