Firefly acquires thin-film-component maker

Firefly Technologies (Holliston, MA) has bought Specialty Thinfilm Services, a privately held maker of custom components for optoelectronics and wireless communications. Specialty Thinfilm's employees moved into the Firefly facility in January. The acquisition will allow Firefly to fabricate many elements for optical packaging. Firefly, which was founded in 1997 and has 40 employees, makes micro-optics and metrology and alignment equipment for communications, data storage, optical computing, and consumer optic applications.