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CORPORATE RESEARCH |
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Infoscitex Corporation, 303 Bear Hill Road, Waltham MA 02451
Tel: 781-890-1338 Fax: 781-890-1330
E-mail: rwoodman@infoscitex.com
Founded in 2000 and now a premier provider of advanced solutions to the Defense & Aerospace, Life Sciences, and Energy & Environment markets, IST’s mission is to develop concepts into highly effective products and services for both Government and commercial applications. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, IST is also strategically located in Albany and Rochester, New York, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. IST currently employs 87 full-time employees and expects to exceed $18 million in revenue for 2008.
Web Site: www.infoscitex.com
Contact: Rob Woodman
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Osram Sylvania, Inc. 71 Cherry Hill Drive Beverly, MA 01915-1068
Tel: 978-750 1696 Fax: 978-750-1795 E-mail: george.wei@sylvania.com
Research development and manufacturing of glass and poly-crystalline ceramics for lighting and other precision materials applications.
Web Site: www.sylvania.com
Contact: Dr. George Wei |
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Raytheon Company 350
Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810
Tel: 978.470.5681 Fax: 978.470.9003 E-mail: c_scott_nordahl@raytheon.com
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part of the Mechanical Engineering Directorate of Raytheon Integrated Defense
Systems, Materials Engineering provides a wide range of technical, engineering
and lab capabilities and services in all disciplines falling under the umbrella
of materials science. Supporting
these technical areas is a full range of analytical capability including:
chemical, mechanical, and electrical and environmental analysis and test.
Web Site: www.raytheon.com
Contact: C. Scott Nordahl
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DRYING / FIRING / MELTING |
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Centorr Vacuum Industries, Inc. 55 Northeastern Blvd., Nashua, NH 03062-3126
Tel: 603 595-7233 Fax: 603 595-9220 E-mail: skr@centorr.com
Manufacturers of vacuum and controlled atmosphere sintering furnaces for operation from -300C to 3000C and pressure levels from 10-9 torr to 1500 psig. Complete systems available in laboratory and production sizes. Designed for operation in vacuum, Ar, N2, and H2 for co-firing, pressure sintering, hot pressing, reaction bonding, metal injection molding, fiber optics, crystal pulling, heat treating, and brazing. Process evaluation and testing available in our Applied Technology Center.
Web Site: www.centorr.com
Contact: Scott K. Robinson |
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Oxy-Gon Industries, Inc. 42 Old Route 28, P.O. Box 40, Epsom, NH 03234
Tel: 603/736-8422 Fax: 603/736-8734 E-mail: sales@oxy-gon.com
Oxy-Gon specializes in quality high temperature, high vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces for the research industry for nearly all applications with supplemental emphasis in manufacturing. Additional products include fiber draw furnaces, gas purification units and tungsten/molybdenum mesh or weave heating elements.
Web Site: www.oxy-gon.com
Contact: William C. Rogers, Sales and Marketing Manager |
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Thermal Technology, LLC 197 Loudon Road, Suite 230, Concord, NH 03301
Tel: 603-225-6605 x18 Fax: 603-224-3798 E-mail: RHeath@thermaltechnology.com
TTllc designs and manufacture high temperature furnaces for processing technical ceramics.
Includes: sintering, reaction bonding, hot pressing, spark plasma sintering, binder removal, co-firing,
optical fiber drawing, CIM and materials testing. Specialties include temp. capability >2000°C & high vacuum.
Web Site: www.ThermalTechnology.com
Contact: Robert F. Heath |
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FABRICATING / FINISHING / MATERIALS PREPARATION |
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Centerline Technologies 577 Main Street, Suite 270, Hudson, MA 01749
Tel: 978-568-1330 Fax: 978-568-1334 E-mail: hugh@centerlinetech-usa.com
Centerline Technologies capabilities include lapping, polishing, laser machining, diamond sawing, edge/diamond machining, tumbling and a filled via planarity process.
Web Site: www.centerlinetech-usa.com.
Contact: Hugh Muffoletto |
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Laser Process Mfg., Inc., 2 Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA 01960
Tel: 978-531-6003 Fax: 978-532-8882 E-mail: lpm@laserprocessmfg.com
Precision laser cutting, drilling, scribing, marking and etching on ceramics, ALN and printed circuit board. LPM is also a laser cutting shop for metals, plastics, wood, and composites.
Web Site: www.laserprocessmfg.com
Contact: Lynn O’Malley |
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Innovative Fabrication, Inc. 44 Stedman Street, #11, Lowell, MA 01851
Tel: 978-446-0003 Fax: 978-446-0444 E-mail: info@innovative-fabrication.com
Innovative Fabrication utilizes state of the art dicing saws and milling machines in combination with process expertise to provide customers with the most precise, economical, and efficient solutions for their cutting needs. Innovation Fabrication would like to become a qualified vendor for your company. In doing so, we would be more than happy to provide samples for qualification. As an outsourcing shop we realize that you depend on us for achieving customer quality and delivery goals. We are 100% committed to exceeding these goals to ensure the highest level of satisfaction for you, our customer and your customers as well.
Web site: www.innovative-fabrication.com
Contact: Patrick Slattery |
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OpTek Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 63, Groton, MA 01450
Tel: 978-448-1454 Fax: 805-392-3448
E-mail: andrew.webb@opteksystems.com
OpTek Systems provide precision laser materials processing. Featuring sub-contract machining services, process development and fully automated laser machining centers for high volume manufacturing. Application areas include: micro-electronics, packaging, fiber optics, biophotonics, drug-discovery, medical device, opto-electronics, semiconductor, and automotive. Visible to UV laser capability facilitates micromachining of most materials including ceramics, metals, glass, polymers, plastics, and quartz. Outsource your process/product development through to high volume manufacturing.
Web site: www.opteksystems.com
Contact: Andrew Webb
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TevTech, LLC 238 Andover Street, Wilmington, MA 01887
Tel: 978-694-9100 Fax: 978-694-9119 E-mail: johnd@tevtechllc.com
TevTech designs and manufactures vacuum furnaces and components. With hot zones ranging from 50 mm to 2 meters, TevTech has the experience, expertise and resources to design, build, install and start-up systems or components built specifically to meet your requirements.
Web site: www.tevtechllc.com
Contacts: John DeCosta |
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FINISHED CERAMIC PRODUCTS |
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Advanced Glass and Ceramics, Inc.108 Valley Hill Drive - Holden MA - 01520
Tel: 1.508.829.9885 Mobile: 1.508.954.0900 Fax: 1.508.829.4530
E-mail: landry@porousglass.com
Advanced Glass and Ceramics specializes in the machining of porous materials: glasses(Vycor 7930 and Pyrex), ceramics and metals. We serve scientists and engineers in over 50 countries who are developing new technologies, products and applications. The markets we service are diverse: military, medical, electronics, space and oil exploration, environmental, pharmacuetical, biotechnology. We market reference electrodes used in ph meters and porous ceramic vacuum chucks for the electronics industry.
Web Site: www.porousglass.com
Contact: Charles Landry
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Bomas Machine Specialties, Inc. 334 Washington Street, Somerville, MA 02143
Tel: 617-628-3831 Fax: 617-628-6108 E-mail: jannese@bomas.com
Machining of ceramics and composite materials since 1959. When you trust your R&D projects to Bomas, we make great strides, one ten-thousandth of an inch at a time. Bomas precision, let us be of service to you.
Web Site: www.bomas.com
Contact: Joe Annese |
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Ceramco, Inc. 1467 East Main Street PO Box 300, Center Conway, NH 03813-0300
Tel: 603-447-2090 Fax: 603-447-3906 E-mail: sales@ceramcoceramics.com
OEM manufacturer of ceramic components for the instrumentation, aerospace, welding/torch, laser, marine/shipbuilding, and heat treat industries. Low pressure injection molding and CNC grinding enables production of components in alumina, zirconia, mullite, and other oxides. Stock fasteners in alumina size 0-80 to ⅜-16 and zirconia 2-56 to ¼-20 up to 3” in length. Metric sizes are also available.
Web Site: www.ceramcoceramics.com
Contact: Mr. Thomas Henriksen |
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Ferro-Ceramic Grinding, Inc. 247 Water Street, Wakefield, MA 01880
Tel: 800-282-1833 Fax: 781-246-1429 E-mail: sales@ferroceramic.com
Technical ceramic component supplier specializing in BN, Al2O3, quartz, Macor, SiC, ferrites, ZrO2 and related materials. Using innovative machining techniques has enabled the company to provide competitive pricing from prototype to production quantities for over 37 years.
Web Site: www.ferroceramic.com
Contact: Costa Sideridis |
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International Ceramic Engineering 235 Brooks Street, Worcester, MA 01606
Tel: 508-853-4700 Fax: 508-852-4101 E-mail: ahiggins@intlceramics.com
ICE manufactures and fabricates advanced ceramics and ceramic components such as insulators, provides engineering support, specializes in post-fire machining and grinding to tight tolerances. Materials: aluminum oxide, zirconia, boron nitride, silicon carbide, steatite, silicon nitride and lava.
Web Site: www.intlceramics.com
Contact: Andy Higgins |
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Prematech Advanced Ceramics, 160 Goddard Memorial Drive, Worcester, MA 01603-1260
Tel: 508-791-9549 Fax: 508-793-9814 Email: info@prematechac.com
PremaTech continues the tradition, started by Chand Kare in 1980, of providing contract-machining service to advanced ceramic manufacturers. With advanced technology, PremaTech provides support from the simplest slicing and dicing to the most sophisticated 4 and 5 axis machining of advanced ceramic components in prototype to production quantity.
Web site: www.prematechac.com
Contact: Ellen Costello |
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Superior Technical Ceramics Corp. 600 Industrial Park Road, St. Albans, VT 05478
Tel: 802-527-7726 Fax: 802-527-1181 E-mail: sales@superiortechceramics.com
An American manufacturer well known for oxide ceramic component manufacturing capabilities – including raw material fabrication, most known powder compaction methods, and unfired & diamond machining. Elaborate use of CNC work centers enables STC to lead the industry in providing the highest quality, cost-effective components for the aerospace, electronic instrumentation, wear & abrasion, thermal protection industries, pump, seal & dispensing systems, and laser system manufacturers.
Web Site: www.superiortechceramics.com and www.ceramics.net
Contact: John F. Redman,
Applications Engineer
185 Chestnut St., Wrentham, MA 02093
e-mail: johnfredman@comcast.net
telephones: 508-384-1522 office; 802-999-8360 cell; 802-713-1005 fax |
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MATERIALS AND POWDERS |
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Cerac, Inc. (A subsidiary of Williams Advanced Materials Inc.)
New England Sales Office at Zentrix Technologies, 22 Graf Road, Newburyport, MA 01950
Tel: 617 957 8460 Fax: 414-289-9805 E-mail: alan_devaney@beminc.com.
CERAC’s Specialty Inorganic Chemicals are used in the manufacture of semiconductor substrate precursors, pacemaker batteries, medical detector devices, phosphors, catalysts and temperature resistant aerospace coatings. From small specialty R&D materials to scale up bulk chemical production, CERAC meets the challenge in developing new Inorganic Chemicals for your emerging application.
Web Site: www.cerac.com
Contact: Alan J. Devaney (Product Marketing Manager -Specialty Inorganic Chemicals)
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H.C. Starck Inc. 45 Industrial Place, Newton, MA 02161-1951
Tel: 617-630-5800 Fax: 617-630-5919
Manufacture of advanced ceramic powders for a variety of applications. These powder include nitrides, borides, carbides, silicides and oxides. HCST also produces powders for hard metals, cermets, thermal spraying, refractories, and abrasives.
Web Site: www.hcstarck.com
Contact: Robert P. Jensen and Elisabeth James; Ceramic Sales |
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Kennametal Sintec Keramik USA, PO Box 2038, Shelton, CT 06484-2038
Tel: 203-513-2860 Fax: 203-513-2861 E-mail: info.usa@sintec-keramik.com.
Manufacturer of non-oxide ceramic powders, hot pressed BN including IMC boats, and HIP ceramics & powder metallurgical alloys. Our wide range of processing capabilities allows Sintec to provide innovative technical ceramic or metallic solutions for semiconductor, wear and corrosion applications.
Web Site: www.sintec-keramik.com
Contact: Rob Lattimer or Chris Decker |
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Reade Advanced Materials
Northeast USA Sales Office, 850 Waterman Ave., PO Box 15039, East Providence, RI 02915
Tel: 401-433-7000; Fax: 401-433-7001; Email: info@reade.com.
READE is a SDVOSB manufacturer, value add custom processor and "factory packed" global distributor of specialty chemical solids (ceramic, mineral, composite, metal, alloy, powder, natural / metallic fiber, whisker, platelet, nanoparticle, nanotube, nanofiber, nanodots, coatings, enzymes, magnetic, conductive, additives, fillers, reinforcements, custom, toll processing / blending and packaging) with 3 customer care offices in The Americas.
Web Site: http://www.reade.com
Contact: Karen Ramos (kramos@reade.com)
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OPTICS AND ELECTONICS |
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CeraNova Corporation 85 Hayes Memorial Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752
Tel: 508-460-0300 Fax: 508-460-0325 E-mail: info@ceranova.com
CeraNova develops and commercializes novel ceramic technologies for both structural and functional applications, including ceramic superconductors, piezoelectric ceramic fiber, and transparent ceramics. Technical expertise at CeraNova includes extrusion, tape casting, directional solidification, and general ceramics processing including mixing, forming and firing. Inquiries on proprietary contract research or development programs and toll services are welcome.
Web site: www.ceranova.com
Contact: Marina Pascucci |
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Crystal Systems Inc. 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970
Tel: 978-745-0088 Fax: 978-744-5059 E-mail: kurt@crystalsystems.com
HEM production and sale of sapphire, titanium-doped sapphire and Multi-crystalline silicon for optical and semiconductor equipment markets. Development of FAST slicing technology and sale of FAST machines for high production slicing of sapphire, silicon carbide and specialty materials.
Web Site: www.crystalsystems.com
Contact: Kurt Schmid |
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Ion Beam Milling Inc. 1000 East Industrial Park Drive, Manchester, NH 03109
Tel: 603- 644-2326 Fax: 603-647-6889 E-mail: rpergamo@ionbeammilling.com
Manufacturer of ultra-precision thin film circuits and provider of custom micromachining services. Products include : Laser Diode Sub-Mounts, Precision Attenuators, Spiral Inductors and custom fine line (<5 micron) circuits. Services include Wafer Milling, Photolithography, Dicing, Chemical Etching. The benefits of the ion milling process include excellent design replication and circuit to circuit repeatability without undercut of etch factors.
Web Site: www.ionbeammilling.com
Contact: Rick Pergamo |
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Stellar Industries Corp. 50 Howe Avenue Millbury, MA 01527
Tel: 508-865-1668 Fax: 508-865-5016 E-mail: snooky@stellarind.com
A Fabricator of Laser Diode / Photodetector Submounts using materials such as AlN, BeO, and Al203. Specializing in vapor deposited GoldTin solders on thick film and thin film substrates. Stellar manufactures precise machined ceramic mounts with wrap-around metalizations. Stellar also fabricates Direct Bonded Copper Substrates for Power and Thermal Management.
Web Site: www.stellarind.com
Contact: John B. Snook |
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PIEZOELECTRICS |
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EBL Products Inc. 91 Prestige Park Circle, East Hartford, CT 06108-1918
Tel: 860-290-3737 Fax: 860-291-2533 E-mail: eblpzt.paul@sbcglobal.net
Manufacturer and precision machining of piezoceramics.
Web site: www.eblproducts.com
Contact: Paul Stokes |
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Materials Systems Inc. 543 Great Road, Littleton, MA 01460
Tel: 978-486-0404 x203 Fax: 978-486-0706 E-mail: ideas@matsysinc.com.
Materials Systems develops and manufactures advanced materials and transducers, including injection-molded net shape piezoelectric ceramics, ceramic-polymer piezocomposite materials, underwater and ultrasonic transducers, IR windows and transparent armor.
Web Site: www.matsysinc.com
Contact: Rick Foster |
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INSTRUMENTS / TESTING EQUIPMENT |
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Linseis, Inc. P.O. Box 666, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
Tel: 800-732-6733 Fax: 609-799-7739 E-mail: info@linseis.com.
Specializing in recording instruments, data acquisition and thermal analysis.
Web Site: www.linseis.com
Contact: Robert LeGrand |
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NETZSCH Instruments, Inc. 37 North Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803
Tel: 781-272-5353 x112 Fax: 781-272-5225 E-mail: d.shepard@nib.netzsch.us
Manufacturer of Thermal Analysis and Thermophysical Properties Measurement Instruments. Our specialties include high temperature simultaneous TGA-DSC instruments, dilatometers and thermal conductivity instruments. Contract Testing services are also available.
Web Site: www.netzsch.com
Contact: David Shepard |
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Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 44 Hunt Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Tel: 617-668-6800 Fax: 617-926-9980
E-mail: info@rmdinc.com
Radiation Monitoring Devices is a diversified technology company providing innovative research and products to a wide range of markets and disciplines. RMD has been recognized as a leader in the fields of radiation detector materials, nuclear instrumentation, custom detector applications and nondestructive test equipment. The material science group focuses on the advancement of innovative materials and sensor configurations. Development activities include high performance polycrystalline and single crystal scintillators and Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes (LA-APD).
Web Site: www.rmdinc.com
Contact: Gary Baldoni |
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Thinky USA, LLC Verdugo Drive Suite 107
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Tel: (949) 768-9001 Fax: (949) 768-9003
E-mail: info@epochy.com
Local Contact for New England - Janus Tech Sales, Tel: 978-887-1190
E-mail: billkyle@janustechsales.com
The THINKY mixer, with or without vacuum, mixes, disperses, mills and degases materials in seconds to minutes in a jar, beaker, bottle, syringe or cartridge. The benefits are speed, uniform dispersion, deaeration, no impeller, and ease of use. THINKY mixer capacities range from a few grams to 10 kg of material depending upon the model and the container. THINKY mixers are used in a wide range of applications by 18,000 different customers in the world.
Web Site: www.thinkyusa.com
Contact: Bill Kyle
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CSM-Instruments, Inc. 197 1st Avenue, Suite 120, Needham MA 02494 (USA)
Tel: 781-444-2250 Fax: 781-444-2251
E-mail: usinfo@csm-instruments.com
E-mail: Dr Nicholas X. Randall ,
Vice-President Business Development
CSM Instruments has been leader in the development of instruments for advanced materials testing for over thirty years. Our products include Hardness Testers, Scratch Testers, and Tribometers of varying load ranges. 3D-imaging options are available with the ConScan or AFM objective. Additionally, we have a thorough sample testing service laboratory.
Web Site: www.csm-instruments.com
Contact: Elisabeth C. Belo, Marketing & Events Coordinator
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ANALYTICAL SERVICES / MATERIAL PROPERTY DATABASE / PATENT SERVICES |
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Geller MicroAnalytical Laboratory Inc. 426 Boston Street (Rt 1), Topsfield MA 01983-1216
Tel: 978 887-7000 Fax: 978 887-6671 E-mail: sales@gellermicro.com.
Geller MicroAnalytical Laboratory, certified to ISO-9001 and ISO-17025, offers products and analytical services to the technical community. Products include NIST traceable magnification reference standards, reference materials for surface analysis, SEM X-ray and microprobe techniques, high vacuum desiccators, metallographic equipment, and computer control digital imaging systems for SEMs and microprobes. Analytical services include Auger electron spectroscopy, SEM, X-ray, Electron Microprobe, profilometry, and metallography.
Web Site: www.gellermicro.com
Contact: Joseph Geller |
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JAHM Software Inc. 29 Valley Rd, North Reading, MA 01864
E-mail: info1@jahm.com
Jahm Software provides easy access to over 2,500 materials and 20,000 sets of temperature dependent data for elastic modulus, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, S-N fatigue curves, stress-strain curves & more. Directly input data into SolidWorks, COSMOSWorks, COSMOSDesignSTAR, ANSYS Workbench (versions 9 & 10), ANSYS standard, ABAQUS and Excel software. Other data formats are also supported. Full references to the original are provided. Free demo version is available at www.jahm.com.
Web Site: www.jahm.com
Contact: John Selverian, Ph. D. |
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Modern Times Legal, One Broadway, 14th Floor; Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617-401-2460 Fax: 617-401-3687
E-mail: inquire@mxlegal.com
Protect and capitalize on your innovations by enlisting Modern Times Legal, a law firm focused on drafting and prosecuting patent applications with enhanced efficiency and personalized service in Kendall Square, Cambridge. With a degree in ceramic engineering and as past-Chair of the New England Section of ACerS, Robert J. Sayre knows the industry and has 12 years experience as a patent attorney. Visit MXL on the web to learn more.
Web Site: www.mxlegal.com
Contact: Bob Sayre
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Robert J. Sayre, Corporate Sponsors Chair
Modern Times Legal
One Broadway, 14th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-401-2460 phone
617-401-3687 fax
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