"...Ophir optics, currently based in Wilmington, is moving to the ground floor of the North Building on the campus of the old Lucent Technologies plant at 1600 Osgood St.
Ozzy Properties President Orit Goldstein said Ophir's arrival sends a positive signal to other companies considering moving to Osgood Landing. 'We're very pleased that such a high-end and well established company such as Ophir Optics would move to our facility', Goldstein said."
Israel's government attributes the country's success in photonics to a combination of strong academia carrying out world-class research, a well-developed optoelectronics industry and an active venture-capital community.
John Murphy tracks the recent progress of Ophir, carving out a significant niche in the test and measurement market
It has grown from being a small start-up company in Israel, supplying coating to the military market, to a world-wide brand. Its strategy has been to push the technology to the limit on the one hand and the market to its limit on the other. Its global sales network is now a key driving force in the company’s growth, allowing it to buy in technology through acquisition, which it can then take global.

The orders are intended for civilian use by US contractors, and therefore are planned to be produced by the Company's optics plant in Israel.
These purchase orders attest to the continued process of accelerated penetration by the Company into the civilian market of thermal night vision systems, in addition to its penetration into the defense market.
The purchase orders and their increase within a short time period attest to the accelerated development of the civilian market for thermal radiometric uncooled cameras, as result of the significant growth in the variety of new civilian applications which can be developed with the use of these cameras.
The delivery of orders is scheduled for completion by the end of the first quarter of 2007.
The orders are intended for civilian use by US contractors, and therefore are planned to be produced by the Company's optics plant in Israel.

