Schott AG
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SCHOTT AG is a German manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass products, its main markets are household appliances [100millionth glass-ceramic hob due 2009], pharmaceutical industries, solar energy, electronics, optics as well as automotive. According to the 2008 Annual Report, Schott AG employs 17,363 people in 42 countries.
Schott AG is well known by the photographic community for manufacturing the glass components of Zeiss and Schneider Kreuznach lenses as well as B+W filters. They also publish the Schott Glass Catalog, which is a standard reference for the properties of the many optical glasses produced by them and other companies.
The company was founded in 1884 at Jena, Germany as Glastechnische Laboratorium Schott & Genossen by Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Roderich Zeiss. The company later changed its name to Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen. After the Second World War, the company was forced to relocate to Mainz in West Germany as Schott Glaswerke AG after the headquarters in Jena was taken over by the East German government and became Jena Glaswerke VEB. After the German reunification, Schott Glaswerke AG acquired Jena Glaswerke VEB to become a single company again.
In 2008 they announced plans to build a factory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA to build receivers for concentrated solar thermal power plants (CSP) and 64 MW of photovoltaic modules. They are already making 15 MW of photovoltaics annually in Billerica, Massachusetts. Schott plans to produce crystalline PV cells and modules with a total of 450 MW annually. In addition, the company will produce thin-film PV wafers with a capacity of 100 MW.[1] [2]
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- Official company website
- Official company website US
- Schott Solar May Seek Up to EU700 Million in Initial Offering
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