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SCHOTT North America
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About us ...
The SCHOTT Group
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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.
Our main markets are the household appliances industry, optics and opto-electronics, pharmaceuticals and regenerative energy industries. Our mission is to enable our customers’ success with our products and services.
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The Business Unit Lighting and Imaging
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SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging 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 and use of LED technology, 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 Lighting and Imaging worldwide:
- Mainz (Germany)
- Southbridge, MA (USA)
- Valašské Mezirící (Czech Republic)
- Veracruz (Mex)
- Tokyo (Japan)
Our Core Competencies
- 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
Our Core Markets
- Industrial: Fiber optic components and LEDs for sensors, metrology and control equipment, Machine Vision and stereomicroscopy, cold light sources and accessories
- Heathcare: Fibers for illumination of surgical microscopy and endoscopy, flexible image bundles and light guides, imaging tapers and faceplates for medical X-ray imaging, light conducting rods and tapers, laser delivery systems
- Lighting: Lighting systems and components for architectural and decorative lighting
- Automotive: Fiber optic light guides for design lighting as well as optical data transmission
- Defense: Fiber optic image guides for opto-electronic applications
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Lighting and Imaging
SCHOTT North America Inc.
122 Charlton Street
Southbridge, MA 01550
USA
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