Machine builders, by family and by trade.
Our family has been in manufacturing for decades. Spark carries that forward with lasers, automation and the people to build them.
Founded in 2014 by an engineer who grew up on the shop floor.
Yousef Saheb Javaher grew up around his family's spark erosion machine company. After Mechatronics Engineering at Simon Fraser University and a first business building custom audio systems, he built the laser machine he couldn't buy. Spark Laser followed in 2014.
Today we design and build custom automation with a specialty in lasers, and we stay deliberately small and senior: you work directly with the engineers building your machine, from first call to final training.
Our name comes from spark erosion.
Before Spark Laser, there was Pishtazan: our family's company, which designed and built spark erosion (EDM) machines and CNC machine tools. Its own catalog called it the first designer and builder of spark erosion machines in the Middle East.
The atom and the gear.
The Spark mark comes straight from the Pishtazan catalog: an atom for the science, a gear for the machine. We re-engineered it for a new era, and kept the name that started it all: spark.
- 1983Pishtazan builds spark erosion machines and CNC machine tools.
- 2014Spark Laser is founded in Richmond, BC, after Spark Audio (2012).
- 2015+30+ Spark laser machines delivered to schools and businesses across BC.
- TodayCustom automation for Kardium, Ocean Infinity and more; Spark Fabrication makes the parts.
Spark, in our own words.
The people building your machine.
Yousef Saheb Javaher
Founder, Lead EngineerMechatronics Engineering, Simon Fraser University. Founded Spark Laser in 2014.
Jeremy Malins
Spark Fabrication · AssemblyDecades of craftsmanship in machining and assembly.
Omid Toussi
Business Development · SalesYour first contact for new projects and quotes.
Ramtin Bidshahri
Advisor · FinanceAdvises Spark on financing, strategy and machine investments. UBC and NYU.
30+ machines, and the people who run them.
Before custom automation, we built and supplied laser machines to schools and businesses across British Columbia. Many are still running, and every owner is part of the Spark family.
Education
| School | Machine | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Nanaimo Christian School | SP-9006S 80 W | 2019 |
| R.C. Palmer Secondary | SP-9006S 80 W + SPCN6090 | 2019 |
| Vancouver Technical Secondary | SP-9006S 80 W | 2017/18 |
| Pinetree Secondary | SP-13009S 100 W | 2017 |
| Gulf Islands Secondary | SP-16001S | 2017 |
Business
| Customer | Use | Machine | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc'teryx | Outdoor and sporting goods manufacturing | SP-9006S 80 W | 2019 |
| Ocean Drive Leather | Custom leather and film-set apparel | SP-13009S | 2016 |
| Wayne & Francisco | Charity work and prototyping | SP-9006S | 2016 |
| DS Tactical | Military and law-enforcement equipment | SF-20CTI 2D | 2016 |
| ICE Tactical | Advanced tactical equipment and clothing | SP-13009F | 2015 |
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COMBINATIONAnything is possible.
Combination Technologies is a Vancouver HardTech and DeepTech firm that helps startups and corporations de-risk, validate and launch new products. With Spark, they bring advanced electronics, embedded systems, AI and software to every machine we build.
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Darius Sahebjavaher
Combination Technologies15 years building companies and bringing technology to market. BASc Electronics, MASc Mechanical; founder and former CEO and CTO.
Ramin Sahebjavaher
Combination TechnologiesTechnology leader in AI, cloud and imaging; former VP of Technology at Prenuvo. PhD Biomedical Engineering, Master's in Robotics.
The wider Combination team
Engineering, design and IPSpecialists in computational analysis, embedded systems and firmware, product design for mass production, and IP strategy.
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