![Western Michigan spinoff laser tool company hopes to find right fit with machine maker]()
Tom Henderson
- There are customers, and then there are customers.Micro-Laser Assisted Machining Technologies LLC (Micro-LAM), a spinoff from Western Michigan University that makes retrofitted laser-based tools to improve machining for ceramics, silicon and metal, has landed a crucial first customer, the kind that needs to be italicized.It's the kind, says Deepak Ravindra, Micro-LAM's founder, president and CEO, that will make it easier to finish the funding round of up to $700,000 he is raising.The customer