ZEISS will invest over EUR 300 million in a new integrated high-tech site
ZEISS will invest over EUR 300 million in a new integrated high-tech site. The world’s technology leader in the optics and optoelectronics industries unveiled its plan in Jena.
In line with this plan, ZEISS will bring together its existing sites in Jena by 2023. To do this, ZEISS will acquire partially unused premises from SCHOTT, which it will renovate and use to construct a new facility for its second-largest site worldwide.
Jena is thus an integral part of ZEISS’s global investment strategy and is the next in a string of international projects aimed at expanding, modernizing and realigning sites that ZEISS has been implementing in locations such as Germany, Europe and Asia since 2011. Just three weeks ago, the company announced plans to invest EUR 30 million in the ZEISS Innovation Hub at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
“As a global technology leader, our investments are focused on leveraging the existing potential in our growth markets,” explains Prof. Dr. Michael Kaschke, President and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG. “To do so, we need an even stronger presence and better networking at the innovation hotspots.” In Jena, this translates into close collaboration with institutions such as Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst Abbe University, the Ilmenau University of Technology, other local universities of applied sciences and institutes such as those that are part of the Max Planck Society, as well as partner companies and local suppliers.
“These investments wi...
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