Randolph Engineering

The company and its work

Polish immigrants and master machinists Jan Waszkiewicz and Stanley Zaleski founded Randolph in Massachusetts in 1973 after pooling their savings to start an optical engineering business. A U.S. Department of Defense contract followed in 1982, establishing the company's military aviators as its defining product. Randolph remains independent and continues to handcraft its frames in Massachusetts through a process involving roughly 200 steps.