High-tech photonics industry drives Orlando manufacturing job creation

A certain type of manufacturer is lasered in on growth in Orlando. An Orlando Business Journal analysis of the 2022 manufacturing job announcements...

March 15, 2023
12:10 AM

A certain type of manufacturer is lasered in on growth in Orlando. An Orlando Business Journal analysis of the 2022 manufacturing job announcements tracked by the Orlando Economic Partnership revealed photonics companies led other types of manufacturers with 111 new jobs. The optics and photonics industry deals with the science of light waves. Those job announcements came from two companies: Orlando-based LightPath Technologies Inc. in June announced it would expand its local workforce by 71 jobs.

Alex Soderstrom