GAGGIONE OPTICS COMPONENTS AT PHOTONICS WEST EXPO IN SAN JOSE, CALIF., THIS JANUARY.

Chicago, January 7, 2008 (word count: 349)
Gaggione has successfully produced solutions to plastics for 60 years serving customers around the world.  It offers comprehensive design, development, and manufacturing capabilities for the production of thermoplastic-based products and components. The company will be exhibiting at Photonics West 2009 in San Jose, Calif., from Jan. 27 to 29, on the French Pavilion at booth 1716 and demonstrating their expanded LEDnLIGHT product line.

An ISO-9001 and ISO-9002 certified company, Gaggione offers its customers end-to-end solutions for markets and applications in the automotive, medical, lighting, high-tech, laser, and other industries with a focus on standard and custom optical components.

CUSTOM OPTICAL COMPONENTS:  Complete design through production expertise and facilities for high-end optical components using thermoplastic injection processes (PMMA, PC, and COC) focused on diverse LED-based lighting, laser, and other photonics application. Over the years, optics design and development in addition to world-class manufacturing has been Gaggione’s fastest growing business sector.

STANDARD OPTICAL COMPONENTS:  Ready-to-use product line of collimator lenses and holders that are compatible with the major manufacturers of high power LED sources. A complete range of beam angles and rapid development solutions for LEDs from Philips/Lumileds, Osram, Nichia, Seoul Semiconductor, and Cree products.  The company’s line of LEDnLIGHT optics are the smallest collimator lenses on the market. (Learn more about LEDnLIGHT by visiting www.LEDnLIGHT.com.)

Gaggione’s experience includes optical and mechanical design, its own internal tools and mold-development team, and a world-class injection-manufacturing factory. It also provides specialty coating and materials treatment services optimizing the finest in thin-layer vacuum coating deposition services. A privately held and profitable company, Gaggione represents a stable yet dynamic partner serving market leaders worldwide.

Products Categories:

Packaging & Optics
- Lenses & other optical components
- Thick plastics, specialty optics and collimators
- Fresnel lenses
- Cluster or arrays lenses/holders, and
- Very sophisticated LED light guide applications
- Optical design software and services

Transportation
- LEDs and components for vehicle lighting
- Road signage and traffic signals

Solid State Lighting
- Residential/home lighting products
- Commercial applications
- Outdoor lighting and signage

Laser-Based Optics
- Instrumentation applications
- Digital optic readers
- Light transmission

For more information, please contact:

GAGGIONE in North America
John-Michael Ermel
1200 Old Skokie Road
Highland Park, IL 60035
Tel./Fax:(847) 810-7392
E-mail: jm.ermel@gaggione.com
Web: www.gaggione.com

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Fax: (312) 327-5261
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr