Photonics.com Week in Brief: PHIX Opens Photonic Chip Packaging Cleanroom in Montana

PHIX Photonics Assembly, a PICs design, assembly, and packaging services provider, opened its cleanroom and offices in Bozeman, Mont. The facility will bring engineering support and production closer to PHIX’s North American customers. PHIX’s U.S. employees, PHIX CEO Albert Hasper, Jose Pozo of Optica, key photonics industry executives, and Montana officials stand at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the facility. Courtesy of PHIX Photonics Assembly. ANKENY, Iowa — Accumold, an Iowa-based designer and developer of micro-engineered optics, optical products, and parts, plans to open a 40,000-sq-ft, $10 million expansion this spring. The expansion is expected to add more than 200 employees in the next three years,...