Partnership will offer customers precision laser micromachining and optical fiber processing on three continents

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2023 — David Schnur Associates (DSA), a global supplier of outsourced technical sales and marketing services for the medical device industry, recently announced an exclusive, multi-year strategic agreement with laser micromachining provider OpTek Systems. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K., with facilities in Boston, Mass.; Greenville, S.C.; and Dongguan, China. OpTek is part of Humanetics, a global industrial technology company with extensive experience servicing the needs of the world’s largest automotive, aerospace, defense and biomedical customers with custom sensor, fiber optics and micromachining solutions.

OpTek provides precision laser micromachining capabilities drawing on decades of experience in lasers, optics, laser/material interactions, automation, inspection and control in state-of-the-art facilities. Known for designing and building laser production equipment tailored to customer needs, OpTek has been a contract manufacturer for precision laser micromachining for more than 20 years. The company leverages a diverse range of laser wavelengths to provide capabilities including precision micro hole drilling in polymer applications such as microtubing and balloons for filtration and precise drug dosing control. 

“This partnership will allow us to offer our customers a pathway from process validation to full-scale production in precision laser micromachining and optical processing at locations on three continents,” said DSA CEO Barry Schnur. “The OpTek team has deep understanding of lasers that began with building excimer laser systems and grew to encompass the interaction of different wavelengths with polymers and other complex materials. Their investment in growing their laser micromachining, optical processing and contract manufacturing capabilities makes this a very exciting opportunity for our customers.”

“To put it in context, laser processing has been at the heart of several of the largest transactions in the medical device OEM space in recent years,” Schnur said. “As medical devices have continued to scale down, there’s been a greater need for precise, tight-tolerance features for complex components in less space, and laser processing is a key technology that has evolved to meet that need.”

“Given DSA’s extensive customer base and biomedical expertise, our partnership will enable OpTek to deliver value to new customers in high-growth markets and regions. We look forward to working on complex challenges that can benefit from our applied micromachining and optical fiber processing expertise,” said Bruce Valentine, OpTek’s Global Managing Director.

About DSA

David Schnur Associates (DSA) is a medical device technical sales organization with 45 years of experience consulting on the design and development of medical components and devices. With consultancy services and a global network of materials partners, DSA acts as an extension of its customers’ design, engineering and manufacturing teams. For more information, visit DSA at dschnur.com.

About OpTek Systems

OpTek has built a reputation as one of the most highly respected providers of laser processing solutions, combining its core expertise in lasers, optics and laser/material interactions with a high degree of automation. OpTek is headquartered in Oxford, U.K., and also operates from facilities in Dongguan, China; Boston, Mass.; and Greenville, S.C. For more information, visit https://optek.humaneticsgroup.com/.