Industries Served
Custom Precision Technology specializes in precision glass fabrication for custom components, prototypes, and production parts. From early-stage development through repeat production, we use hands-on experience and specialized in-house processes to solve difficult challenges and turn unique glass designs into consistent, high-quality finished parts for critical applications.
Aerospace & Defense
Aerospace and defense systems depend on optical components for sensing, navigation, detection, imaging, communication, and laser-based applications. The environments can be demanding, the system requirements exacting, and the cost of an unreliable component high. In many cases, the part itself is small; its role in the larger system is not.
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CPT manufactures custom glass and hard-material components including windows, prisms, mirrors, filters, wedges, sapphire components, and other drawing-based parts. We support new product development, specialized replacement needs, legacy programs, and repeat production. Whether the requirement centers on a difficult material, unusual geometry, tight dimensional control, or a component that is no longer commercially available, we manufacture around the needs of the finished system rather than a standard catalog offering.
Medical & Life Sciences
Modern medical and life-science technologies increasingly rely on optics for imaging, diagnostics, sensing, analysis, and the controlled delivery or detection of light. A relatively small component may influence the accuracy, consistency, or overall function of a much larger instrument or device.
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CPT manufactures custom windows, filters, prisms, sapphire components, and specialized glass geometries for medical and life-science applications. We work from customer drawings and specifications, with careful attention to material selection, dimensions, surface requirements, and repeatability from part to part. Our capabilities support both development work and ongoing production, particularly where an application requires something beyond a standard off-the-shelf optic.
Laser and Photonics
Laser and photonics systems depend on precise control of light. Surface quality, geometry, substrate material, and coating performance can each influence how efficiently and predictably a beam is directed, shaped, divided, filtered, or protected.
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CPT manufactures custom mirrors, windows, prisms, beamsplitters, cylindrical optics, spacers, and other specialized components for laser and photonics applications. We support systems used in sensing, measurement, imaging, research, and advanced manufacturing, from early development through repeat production.
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Fabrication and coating requirements are matched to the wavelength, operating conditions, and intended function of the finished optic.
Semiconductor & Microelectronics
As semiconductor and microelectronic systems become more precise, the equipment used to manufacture, inspect, align, and measure them must operate with equal consistency. Components that appear simple—such as a flat window, spacer, substrate, or precision glass element—may require close control of thickness, flatness, parallelism, surface condition, and overall geometry.
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CPT manufactures and processes custom glass and hard-material components for inspection systems, sensing equipment, tooling, measurement platforms, and specialized production machinery. Our work ranges from precision flat components and windows to custom spacers and unusual drawing-based geometries.
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This is an industry where small dimensional differences can matter far beyond the individual part. We help customers solve requirements that do not fit neatly into standard catalog components, supporting both developmental work and repeat production where consistency from one part to the next is essential.
Sensors, Imaging & Machine Vision
Sensors and imaging systems allow equipment to see, detect, measure, inspect, and respond to the world around it. In automated manufacturing, scientific instrumentation, security, and process control, the quality of the information collected often depends on the components controlling the optical path.
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CPT manufactures custom windows, filters, prisms, cylindrical optics, mirrors, reference surfaces, and other specialized components for these systems. Material, geometry, and surface requirements can be tailored to the needs of the instrument, whether the application involves detection, alignment, inspection, measurement, or image formation.
Industrial & Advanced Manufacturing
Modern production equipment increasingly combines mechanical systems with optics, sensors, lasers, inspection technologies, and specialized materials. That creates a growing need for components that are not standard optics in the traditional sense, but still demand the same level of precision in how they are machined, ground, polished, and measured.
CPT manufactures custom windows, sight glass, tooling, spacers, wear-resistant sapphire parts, and other close-tolerance glass and hard-material components for industrial equipment and specialized machinery. Some are designed around optical performance. Others exist because of durability, dimensional control, thermal stability, or an unusual geometry.
We support equipment development, repairs, replacement parts, prototypes, and repeat production—particularly when the required component cannot simply be ordered from a catalog
Research & Scientific Instrumentation
Scientific research has a habit of requiring parts that do not yet exist.
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Experimental systems and specialized instruments often call for unusual materials, unique geometries, extremely small quantities, or components designed for a single purpose. Standard catalog optics may come close without actually meeting the requirement, and in research, “close” is often not enough.
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CPT works with engineers, laboratories, universities, government research groups, and R&D teams to manufacture custom optics and close-tolerance glass components for experimental, analytical, and measurement systems. Our flexibility is particularly valuable for prototypes, one-off components, low-volume production, specialized replacement parts, and projects still evolving through development. These jobs often require more than simply following a drawing; they may involve understanding what is critical, recognizing what is manufacturable, and working through the details of a component that has never been made before.