RAPT Industries Company Profile

Corporate History

The RAP process was developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by Dr. Jeffrey Carr. Dr. Carr’s vision was to create a general tool capable of rapidly shaping and smoothing glass surfaces using an atmospheric pressure plasma. Dr. Carr demonstrated that the plasma could create a very stable and deterministic tool footprint that could be used to shape precision aspheric optics without imparting any sub-surface damage. RAPT Industries was founded in 2001 with the goal of developing and commercializing damage-free shaping technologies for the most demanding optical and semiconductor applications. In 2003 RAPT Industries won a prestigious Advanced Technology Program award from the Department of Commerce to further develop novel tools for optics and semiconductor manufacturing. In 2004 RAPT Industries opened up its optical manufacturing center in Freeport, Pennsylvania.