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Optomec is an additive manufacturing equipment company founded in 1982 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, originally as a manufacturer of optical-mechanical devices. In 1997, the company pivoted to additive manufacturing when engineer Dave Keicher left Sandia National Laboratories to commercialize the Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) process, which Optomec subsequently licensed from Sandia. Operating from its Albuquerque headquarters, the company develops and manufactures two distinct additive manufacturing product lines: LENS metal 3D printing systems that deposit titanium, stainless steel, Inconel, and other alloys for fabricating, repairing, and enhancing high-performance metal components, and Aerosol Jet systems that print functional electronics directly onto substrates for next-generation microelectronic device fabrication. Optomec has delivered more than 500 systems to over 200 customers in aerospace, electronics, energy, and life sciences industries and has invested more than $35 million in developing its additive manufacturing technologies.
