The Weekend Pundit mentioned the Fiber Fest yesterday. After reading the post, I wondered if anyone from my company had attended (if I hadn't played hookie, I would have known). AD, the Marketing and Sales Manager attended yesterday afternoon on the off chance that there would be something that we could use or someone that we could be usefull to.
The reason it would have been an off chance, is that we produce optical fiber, which is not the same as producing fiber optics. Our markets are for short fibers, usually 2 meters or less, which are used for laser applications as well at heat-sensing applications. We also produce some structural fiber, but that is not our main business. Sapphire is much too expensive to be competitive in the fiber optics business. However, it has properties, such as heat tolerance, that make it more suited for our target markets.
Unfortunatly, AD did not find anything usefull at the show, but at least got to get out of the office and enjoy some of the nice weather
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