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Jenoptik is an optoelectronics group headquartered in Jena, Thuringia, Germany and a descendant of the pre-war Zeiss company. The business with manufacturing and representation worldwide is divided into five divisions: Optical Systems, Lasers & Material Processing, Industrial Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defense & Civil Systems.
Jenoptik divides its activities into five divisions: Optical Systems, Lasers & Material Processing, Industrial Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defense, and Civil Systems. Its customers around the world mainly include companies in the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry, automotive and automotive supplier industry, medical technology, security and defense technology as well as the aviation industry.
Jenoptik has around 3,430 employees and in 2013 generated sales of approximately 600 million Euros (preliminary). The Group was created in 1991 out of JENOPTIK Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. Since June 1998 JENOPTIK AG has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is included in the TecDAX index. The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena (Thuringia). In addition to several major sites in Germany Jenoptik is represented in about 80 countries worldwide and has major production sites abroad in the USA, France and Switzerland as well as shareholdings in Singapore, India, China, Korea, Japan and Australia.
Dr. Michael Mertin has been the Chairman of the Executive Board of Jenoptik AG since July 1, 2007, and is responsible for the entire operational business as well as for the areas of strategy and innovations, auditing, data protection, communication and marketing, IT, quality and processes and, as Human Resources Director, for personnel.
The group can trace its heritage back to the original Carl Zeiss AG company, founded in Jena in 1846. Following World War II, Jena fell within the Soviet occupation zone, later to become East Germany. In 1948, when it was apparent that the Soviet authorities were moving toward establishing a separate Communist state in their occupation zone, most of the main Zeiss company hastily relocated to West Germany. The Soviet and East German authorities took over the old Zeiss factory in Jena and used it as the nucleus for the state-owned Kombinat VEB Zeiss Jena. The eastern Zeiss became well known for its high-quality optical equipment.
Following [2] Indeed, it was one of the few East German firms that was thought to have a realistic chance of competing in a global market.
Lasers & Material Processing division
Lasers:
Laser processing systems:
Optical Systems division
JENOPTIK Optical Systems, LLC is the North American subsidiary of Jenoptik’s Optical Systems division. JENOPTIK Optical System has around 125 employees in Alabama and Florida with the capabilities to design, fabricate and test complex lens assemblies, diffractive optics, infrared cameras, microscope cameras and projection systems. JOS is ITAR compliant and ISO certified.
Industrial Metrology division
Traffic Solutions division
Defense & Civil Systems division
Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg, France, United Kingdom
Germany, Erfurt, Weimar, Gera, Thuringia
Sony, Jena, Cosina, Contax, Kyocera
Cold War, Germany, Berlin Wall, Communism, East Berlin
Cold War, Battle of Stalingrad, Nazi Germany, Battle of the Atlantic, Second Sino-Japanese War
Germany, Business process management, Natural, Software, Israel
Erfurt, Bauhaus, Berlin, Jena, Weimar
Baden-Württemberg, Authority control, Nazi Germany, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt
East Germany, German language, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, German reunification, Stralsund