About
Nearly 50 years of making light behave.
Tower Optical Corporation is a precision optics manufacturer in Boynton Beach, Florida. Founded in 1978 and under the same ownership since 1997, we manufacture the components that go into laser systems, scientific instruments, and defense platforms.
Capabilities at a glance
We manufacture high-quality precision optics — waveplates, lenses, prisms, beamsplitters, windows, mirrors, filters, precision optical flats, and the assemblies that hold them. Stock items ship in days; build-to-print work is quoted in about a day.
Our components go into leading-edge photonics, electro-optics, lasers, telecommunications, medical instruments, optical imaging, and optical computing. Our customers are aerospace and defense contractors, government labs, universities, and the companies building tomorrow’s instruments.
The Tower Optical team — Boynton Beach, Florida
Our Vision
To be the supplier of choice for the most demanding and innovative organizations focused on improving man’s quality of life through light-based technologies.
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Boynton Beach, Florida
ISO 9001:2015 · AS9100 · ITAR
CAGE 1N2U3 · OSA · SPIE · APOMA
Timeline
Company history
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1978
Tower is founded
Precision optics manufacturing begins in the United States.
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1997
Current ownership
The company comes under the ownership that still runs it today — stability the customer base can plan around.
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2007
ISO 9001 certified
First registration certificate received, establishing the quality management system we still operate.
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Today
ISO 9001:2015 · AS9100 · ITAR
Serving aerospace, defense, medical, telecom and research — with stock waveplates in 40+ wavelengths and build-to-print for everything else.
Leadership
The people signing your certificate of compliance
Yoany Rodriguez, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Harry Seth
Chief Operations Officer
James “Chip” Gorsuch
Director of Business Development
Margie D’Orazio
Accounting Manager
Quality
Zero-defect, by philosophy
Tower is committed to meeting customer requirements and raising satisfaction through a culture of continuous improvement. Management stands behind every product and keeps investing in equipment, training, and ISO 9001 — with a zero-defect philosophy.
- ISO 9001:2015Certified — manufacturing, sales & marketing of precision optics
- SAE AS9100Aerospace quality system compliant
- ITARRegistered · CAGE 1N2U3
- 10 yrRecords retention on defense orders
Careers
Build optics for a living
Tower is interested in experienced opticians — grinding & fabrication, polishing, assembly technicians, QA inspectors, inside sales, and precision optics sales reps (defined territories). We are a drug-free workplace and hold all applications in strict confidence.
Apply: send your résumé- Grinding & fabrication
- Polishing
- Assembly technicians
- QA inspectors
- Inside sales · optics sales reps
Boynton Beach, FL · strict confidence on all applications