News and Events

Photonics West Exhibition 2025
Iridian will be exhibiting at Photonics West Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco between Jan 28-30. Please visit Us at Booth # 949.

SPIE BiOS Expo 2025
Iridian will be exhibiting at the 2025 SPIE BiOS Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco between January 25-26. (Booth#: 8539)

IDEX Corporation Continues Strategic Capital Deployment with Agreement to Acquire Iridian Spectral Technologies
Northbrook, Illinois, (April 26, 2022) – IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iridian Spectral Technologies (“Iridian”) for cash consideration of 150 million Canadian dollars (“CAD”), subject to customary adjustments.

Iridian Launches New Website to Serve the Japanese Market
Iridian Spectral Technologies, Ltd. (Iridian) is pleased to announce the launch of our Japanese language version of our website www.iridian.jp.

Letter from Iridian President Regarding COVID-19
Iridian Spectral Technologies is maintaining normal operations during this COVID-19 pandemic period. We continue our dedication to delivering your filters on time with the highest quality.
Our manufacturing capacity and lead times are unaffected; we have adequate supplies of raw materials onsite and have not been notified of any interruption in material supply from our key suppliers.

Iridian Filters Chosen for Dragonfly Telescope
Ottawa, Canada, June 7, 2021 Iridian Spectral Technologies congratulates the team at the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto on securing nearly $2 million in support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for the development and expansion of their...

Iridian Announces New Optical Filters Designed for PCR Testing
Ottawa, Canada, Dec.14, 2020 In an effort to support the rapidly growing use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in rapid diagnosis of diseases such as COVID-19, Iridian Spectral Technologies has introduced a line of ultra performance optical filters specifically...

Iridian Welcomes India’s FII to Its Distributor Network
Ottawa, Canada, Nov.30, 2020 Iridian Spectral Technologies, Ltd. (Iridian) is pleased to announce that it’s long standing Indian distributor for aerospace filters, Futuristic International Inc (FII), is now available to address any and all Indian optical filter...

Iridian Supplying Key Components for New COVID-19 Testing Kit
Iridian Spectral Technologies would like to congratulate Spartan Bioscience on obtaining Health Canada approval this week for use of the Spartan Cube for COVID-19 testing. We are proud that Iridian’s optical filters are a key component in this instrument.

Iridian Expanding LiDAR Filter Capacity
Ottawa, Canada, August 26, 2019 – Iridian has recently expanded our filter capacity for LiDAR sensing application. Our Iridian LiDAR filters feature narrow bandwidth, higher transmission and low angular wavelength shift for wider AOI range. For more information on...