The Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) announced that is has named ASD, Inc. (formerly Analytical Spectral Devices) of Boulder as the 2008 Colorado Photonics Company of the Year.
The Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) announced that is has named ASD, Inc. (formerly Analytical Spectral Devices) of Boulder as the 2008 Colorado Photonics Company of the Year. The award will be presented at the CPIA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, in UMC 235 of CU-Bolder from 3 to 6 pm, and the ceremony is open and free to the public.
The Photonics Company of the Year award goes to a company or institution that has contributed the most to the Colorado photonics industry recently. This year's winner, ASD, Inc., was founded in Boulder in 1990 to manufacture spectrometers. In just the past year, they have been named to the Boulder County Business Report's Mercury 100 for fastest growing companies, named one of Colorado's Technology Fast 50 companies by Deloitte and Touche, listed in Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 List, and awarded the Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in Exporting.
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