A II-VI employee handles an optical coatings component within the II-VI Photonics Segment in Clinton Township.

Saxonburg-based II-VI Incorporated, a global producer and supplier of lasers and engineered materials used in consumer and military products, recently was listed among 10 companies worthy of attention from investors. Kiplinger Personal Finance published an article that included II-VI on a list of 10 companies whose stocks are predicted to be valuable for years to come. Kiplinger based its assessment of the stock on the company's $3.2 billion purchase of Finisar, a California-based producer of optical communications components and subsystems for telecommunications and automotive companies. The sale closed in September.

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