Our Story
Atlas Technologies began as a tiny company outside of Port Townsend, Washington in the far northwest corner of the continental United States. Since then, we’ve grown to be a successful design and manufacturing facility serving companies around the world.
What makes us stand out?
We are curious. We like to talk about technology and science and figure out how we can help our customers achieve their (often lofty) goals. We bond metals, then machine and weld them and apply them in new ways.
Sometimes we take on a crazy special project, and that’s a lot of fun. But we also offer standard solutions across multiple industries.
Milestones
1990 – 1999
Started in a shipping container in the woods in 1994. People probably had the wrong idea about what we were doing.
Installed our first real shop in a local shipyard.
Our first big project – designed and built copper/stainless flanges to support KEKB – the first particle collider built to study the B-meson system. Located in Japan at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEKB recorded its first events in June 1999. The facility is still one of the world’s leading accelerator science research laboratories.
Opened a much larger facility on the outskirts of Port Townsend.
2000 – 2009
Bought our building, doubled our space and kept on growing.
Built our first of many aluminum chambers for photovoltaic production. Helped our customer shift to aluminum vacuum throughout their processes.
Built non-magnetic copper chambers with optical feedthroughs for CSIRO, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, for the launch of their completely non-magnetic atomic clock.
Created a dipole chamber for CAMD, the synchrotron radiation research center at Louisiana State University. LSUs synchrotron research supports advances in biotech, agriculture, environmental pollution, energy and defense.
Developed what we call the white torpedo. But it’s actually used as part of a telescope array at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in South America.
Developed chambers, placed at the south pole, to study cosmic background radiation, helping bring about the startling possibility that we really do live in a multiverse.
Manufactured aluminum cryostat telescope housings with optics cooling equipment for infrared telescopes to further study cosmic radiation in a joint project between University of Minnesota, Stanford University, and Harvard University.
2020 +
Thanks to our wonderful customers and staff, we came through the pandemic stronger than ever.
Expanded again, this time adding a building and increasing space 50% to make room for increase welding operations, including laser welding.
Developed and manufactured custom niobium-stainless transition for use in Benchmark Space Systems’ rocket thruster.
Created critical fittings for use aboard a moon lander
Manufactured aluminum chambers providing ultra clean UHV for crystal semiconductor wafer development.
Created X-ray tubes for OEM customers working in blood purification, agricultural management and mold removal.
We love it when customers take advantage of our expertise in dissimilar metal bonding and advance vacuum technologies. Let us know how we can support your next project
