Photonics.com people-on-the-move roundup, October 14: Edmund Optics appoints a president of advanced manufacturing; Jürgen Popp, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, receives the Ellis R. Lippincott Award and other honors at the SciX 2026 spectroscopy conference.
Fujian Forecam announced on September 17 that it plans to invest about RMB 110 million of remaining raised funds in a multi-field precision optical components industrialization project and a high-performance aerospace optical lens R&D project, with the precision optical components project carrying a total investment of RMB 87.0416 million.
Sanyuan Bio has been confirmed as the intended investor in Sinoma Synthetic Crystals Research Institute (Shandong), planning to invest 60 million yuan.
Xishi Technology, an incubatee of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, has delivered high-precision optical film thickness measurement equipment to a global semiconductor and optical communications leader and deployed it on production lines.