Richard Hamlyn joins Artemis as the Strategic Purchasing Manager & Pete Williams joins Artemis as IR Business Development. Richard has an extensive background in purchasing, having worked in locations such as China, Thailand and Malaysia.

Artemis Optical Limited are delighted to announce the launch of their latest new product range, Deimos DLC Coatings.

Artemis Optical Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its rebranding initiative.

Fitting with the current mood, Artemis Optical Ltd have engaged in a cabinet reshuffle of their own, with new recruits to the Sales Team. Glynn Eveleigh joins Artemis as Sales Manager - Precision Coatings and Ryan Gillard as Sales Executive.

Artemis Optical Ltd., a high precision, optical thin film coatings provider, has announced it will host a course titled, “Practical Design and Production of Optical Thin Films,” led by Ron Willey, a respected figure in the optical thin film industry.

In the space of a year Artemis Optical Ltd’s business has grown from strength to strength, despite the woes of the current economic climate.

International designer and manufacturer of optical solutions Qioptiq (Plymouth, UK; www.qioptiq.com) has announced completion of the sale of its Plymouth, UK coatings business, Qioptiq Coatings Ltd, on October 24.

Recent months have seen several major commercial shake-ups among the WOF membership. Thales Optics, based in St Asaph, together with their sister company Thales Space Technology at Bodelwyddan, have merged with Avimo Optical Imaging based in Prestatyn and the Avimo Thin Film Technologies operation based in Plympton - to form the HTO (High Tech Optics)-UK Group, to be based on the existing Thales Optics site at St Asaph, with potential annual sales of more than £50 million.

Flight tests of head-up displays (HUDs), fitted with what is claimed to be the world's first airborne thin-film colour-selective graded combiners, are to be undertaken aboard in a British Aerospace Harrier GR.7 and a Tornado GR.4 later this year.