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SCHOTT North America Inc.
Southbridge, MA

SFO Building 51

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SFO Building 20

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SCHOTT Fiber Optics (SFO) is a world-renowned custom-designer / manufacturer of fiber optic imaging and lighting components, products and systems for industrial, medical, scientific and commercial applications.

SCHOTT Fiber Optics is part of the Fiber Optics Group

Description The SCHOTT Group SCHOTT is a multinational, technology-based group whose core task lies in improving how people live and work through developing, manufacturing and supplying specialty materials, components and systems. The Business Unit SCHOTT Fiber Optics offers customized high-tech solutions in markets such as automotive, lighting, medical, industrial and defense. By mastering glass, fibers and processes for the production of fiber optic components, we develop outstanding, market-oriented products. With our leading technological know-how and innovative ideas we ensure the success of our customers – around the world, around the clock. SCHOTT Fiber Optic Locations include: • SCHOTT Fiber Optics, Mainz (Germany) • SCHOTT North America Inc., Southbridge, MA (USA) • SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging CR, s.r.o., Valasské Mezirici (Czech Republic) • SCHOTT Nippon, Fiber Optics, Tokyo (Japan) • SCHOTT Mexicana S.A de C.V (Mexico)

Core Competencies of SCHOTT Fiber Optics include

• Glass melting: Own melting facilities worldwide, development of new glass types and innovative melting processes • Fiber drawing: Production of 240,000 km glass fiber per day (could be wound 6 times around the world); the thinnest fibers are about 50x thinner than a human hair • Assembly process: Automated fiber harness production, epoxy and fused end assembling, optical end finishing and inspection, approx. 1 Mio automotive components per year • Imaging fiber optics: Development and production of flexible and fused high-resolution optical components

SCHOTT Fiber Optics is ISO 9001:2000 registered