Great things come from small beginnings

A long-standing American proverb advises that “great things come from small beginnings.”

Synkera Technologies Inc., a Longmont-based research and development laboratory and manufacturing firm, is proving that maxim by using the tiniest of mechanisms to accelerate its own growth.

The company’s bread-and-butter always has been its breakthroughs in manufacturing devices through the development of nanostructures, which are themselves one output of nanotechnology—the manipulation of matter on an atomic or molecular scale. The devices that Synkera manufactures are measured in nanometers, a metric unit equal to one billionth of a meter.

Some of the products produced in its 20,000-square-foot-plant in The Campus at Longmont…