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Organization

Optics Mechanics, Inc. is a privately-held high technology company that was founded and incorporated in 2002. The company's research and development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing activities are managed at the corporate headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa.

Corporate Values Statement

At Optical Mechanics, we believe above all else, our business should be based on respect:

  • Respect for the people we work with
  • Respect for the customers we serve
  • Respect for the partners and people who have invested in our company and ideas

Corporate Vision Statement

Optical Mechanics aspires to gain a national and international reputation as being one of the best high-precision optics and opto-mechanical manufacturers in the world.

What We Do

Optical Mechanics, Inc. is in business to design and manufacture high-precision optics, opto-mechanical assemblies, and high precision optical instruments such as Lidar optical assemblies and telescopes. We believe that our business philosophy is best summed up in our mission, values, and vision statements.

Business Mission Statement

Optical Mechanics is in business to manufacture high-precision optics and opto mechanical devices for customers in the United States and abroad. We expect to grow and achieve reasonable financial returns by maintaining a meaningful share of this high-end market.

We have extensive experience and success designing, fabricating, and selling high- precision optics and opto-mechanical devices to individuals, government, research institutions, universities, and corporations. We constantly explore new technologies and implement them whenever it is deemed to be both proper and necessary to maintain our position in the marketplace.

We invest in our employees and maintain a work environment that is conducive to their physical and mental health. We provide them with challenges and rewards that encourage them to make meaningful contributions to the company, the industry, and our community.

More About Our Organization

The company's Board of Directors consists of three members: James Mulherin, Rich Williams, and Dick Schwab.

Optical Mechanics develops, manufactures, and markets large aperture optics, opto-mechanical devices (such as Lidar, optical tube assemblies, and collimators), and advanced research telescopes.

With numerous, successful installations in major universities, governments, and observatories, Optical Mechanics research telescopes have set industry standards by innovating and implementing the latest technological advances in astronomy, science and engineering. Optical Mechanics has a highly efficient production line to fabricate Newtonian mirrors for Dobsonian telescopes for the amateur astronomy market.

The company is the dominant market leader in sales and quality, and now supplies the majority of mirrors for Obsession Telescopes, the leading manufacturer of large Dobsonian telescopes in the world. The company also manufactures opto-mechanical instruments for the Lidar market. The company headquarters is located in Iowa City, Iowa with operations and manufacturing performed in a new 8000 sq. ft. facility.


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