Luzerne Optical Laboratories

County mulls $4M in business loans: Largest one, $2 million, requested for Hotel Sterling project. Murray Complex developer seeks $1 million.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA); 9/8/2006; 1157 words; Byline: Jennifer Learn-Andes Sep. 8--Luzerne County Commissioners plan to vote next week on requests...expected to create 50 jobs. --$294,420 to Luzerne Optical Laboratories Inc. to buy equipment to add a special coating...

Victim's daughter seeks answers: She pleads for the hit-and-run driver to come forward. Her mother died Tuesday morning.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA); 5/13/2006; 732 words; ...her grandchildren deeply. She was there for all three of their births." Police say Kukosky, who worked at Luzerne Optical Laboratories, had been at a nearby bar 10 minutes before she was hit. Velikis said her sister went out with a woman from...

Police search for driver in fatal W-B hit-and-run: They say vehicle that hit Joan Kukosky likely was a 1997 or newer Jeep Wrangler.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA); 5/12/2006; 678 words; ...found that Kukosky had been at a nearby bar 10 minutes before she was hit, Zavada said. Kukosky worked at Luzerne Optical Laboratories, which manufactures glasses, the detective said. A phone call left at the company was not returned Thursday...

No ceiling to this glass: Industry leader SCHOTT sells ?quality and breadth' of products.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA); 5/7/2006; 1133 words; ...world that made high quality optical glass," Sokach recalled...the borough on the border of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. He...developed the product in a SCHOTT laboratory. Zerodur does not expand at...Sokach said is "the largest optical glass warehouse in the western...

The science of the very small
Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal; 12/1/2005; 1364 words; ...biolabeling, electroconductive coatings and optical fibers. In the textile industry, nanoscale...coordinator of innovative technology at Luzerne County Community College. "Paper companies...technology, which would shrink a chemical laboratory to the size of a credit card. Large...