About Us
IDEX Materials Science Solutions is a platform business within the IDEX Corporation which brings together a broad set of capabilities and applications experience to help our OEM customers solve high-precision engineering challenges. IDEX Materials Science Solutions organizes market-focused teams for Semiconductor, Space & Defense, and Forming, ensuring customers receive coordinated expertise and rapid support across multiple technologies.
Our customers operate worldwide, and so do we. The platform provides global support through local-for-local execution, regional expertise, and scalable solutions. This means you can expect responsive service, compliance with regional standards, and the ability to ramp from prototype to high-volume production wherever you are.
Engage directly with our established brands for detailed product information, specifications, and support. IDEX Materials Science Solutions aligns the right market team across these businesses to coordinate solutions.
Advanced Thin Films
5733 Central Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
United States
At Advanced Thin Films, we are the recognized leader in providing spectrally complex optical components for high power laser systems. With our advanced engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we create high-performance custom optics that will optimize your system to the maximum performance possible. We use our advanced knowledge in fabrication, coating, bonding, and metrology to enable the best-in-class performance of your cutting-edge systems.
CVI Infrared Optics
Ashville Way, Whetstone
Leicester LE8 6NU
United Kingdom
Since 1982, CVI Infrared Optics has been manufacturing advanced optical components for high performance optronics systems. We have become the leading experts in manufacturing and integration of large optics from visible, and near IR, to longwave IR, that can continuously perform in extreme weather climates and harsh conditions. We specialize in serving surveillance, directed energy, semiconductor, and commercial markets. We have excellent customer service and dedicated engineering teams to collaborate and optimize your system for critical operations.
CVI Laser Optics
200 Dorado Place SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123
United States
Since 1972, CVI Laser Optics has delivered high-performance optical components and systems, from prototype through volume production. We partner with OEM customers to solve complex photonics challenges through deep engineering expertise, advanced manufacturing, and end-to-end system design, fabrication, and assembly.
Iridian Spectral Technologies
Founded in 1998, Iridian covers the entire spectrum from prototype development to volume production. Over the decades. Iridian has developed a high degree of automation in order to ensure high quality and low-cost products. It has an unparalleled capability to produce both high volume commodity filters and custom thin film optical filters.
LouwersHanique
LouwersHanique is a customer-driven supplier specializing in technical glass, ceramics, and advanced material combinations, with over 70 years of experience delivering complex, high-precision solutions. From development through full-scale production, assembly, and ultra-high-vacuum cleaning and qualification, we provide complete in-house capabilities as a trusted knowledge and production partner to R&D and engineering teams.
Micro-LAM
Micro-LAM stands for innovation and bold thinking in three critical spaces, laser-assisted machining, ultra-precision diamond tools, and custom optics. Our vision for advancing optics manufacturing is a relentless adoption of what’s best, and fearless exploration of what’s next. We empower customers with a consistent competitive edge. More than improving speed, productivity, and quality, we’re redefining what’s possible.
The innovative 603OPTX team specializes in precision optical components made from metals, IR crystalline materials, and polymer substrates. Capabilities to diamond turn exotic materials and complex geometries are further expanded with the in-house capability of laser-assisted machining. From blanking to coating, we provide turnkey optical components, on time and on budget.
M10 EDGE
Unite B, Argyle Gate, Argyle Way
Stevenage SG1 2AD
United Kingdom
Machine operators always strive for precision, repeatability, and perfection. The M10 Edge brand of diamond cutting tools helps you deliver. Our name conveys our mission: to provide customers with the strongest cutting edge as defined by the highest number on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Built to a higher standard, M10 Edge tools give you multiple competitive advantages:
Millux is a leading specialist in laser material processing technologies. With industry-leading capabilities and our metallurgical knowledge, we work with closely with customers from the early design phase to co-develop the whole project to make sure they get the best solution for the challenge at hand.
STC Material Solutions
600 Industrial Park R
St Albans, VT 05478
United States
STC’s complementary technical ceramics, hermetic sealing, and dissimilar material joining capabilities enable the production of highly engineered, system-level solutions with exceptional material performance for strict tolerance and operating environment requirements.
Tecan Ltd.
Tecan Way
Granby Industrial Estate
Weymouth UK DT4 9TU
United Kingdom
Tecan works with leading edge organizations to co-develop pioneering fine-featured micro precision parts and bring them quickly to market. This helps overcome complex design challenges to achieve remarkable levels of detail and quality in the production of components, ensuring optimal performance and functionality. Operating from a purpose-built facility, Tecan’s foundation is in chemical etching and also provides laser cutting as well as precision component forming and high-quality metal finishing.
Veco
Veco is a world leading manufacturer of electroformed micro-precision parts. It serves the world’s most innovative, high-tech companies from industries that demand high quality and precision. Electroforming is an additive manufacturing process that builds metal parts atom by atom, providing extreme accuracy and high aspect ratios.
