A Material for the Future.

Challenge glass!
A Material for
the Future

For Trendsetters and Innovators

Are you facing a challenge with something you are
currently developing? Perhaps specialty glass,
glass ceramics or composite material is the perfect solution for you!

Thanks to the special properties of glass, SCHOTT has been able to implement many innovations already. In fact, we are currently working on the next round of new innovations!

With startling range, you can create something entirely new!

Combining specialty glass and polymers: By using custom glass powder with special functions as an additive, polymers and other materials gain additional features.

Ultra-thin bendable glass is as thin as a single strand of human hair, yet it is extremely stable and especially beautiful. Thus, it is perfectly suited to become the cover for flexible displays and tomorrow’s microelectronic solutions.

With innovative processing technologies, glass surfaces can be accurately machined. Thus, superfine glass structures can be achieved. Ideal for technologically complex, challenging applications such as structured glass wafers for electronics or biochips.

Rethinking glass: For all that seems possible and impossible.

Glass offers innovative solutions for numerous ideas and projects. It enjoys having the most versatile properties imaginable, which can be changed and adapted as is required. Thus, there is a high potential for innovation, which can lead to entirely new application areas coming into use. It is what makes glass one of the most versatile materials for the future.

Maximize the innovative potential which glass has to offer.

Material
Development

Designing materials for today’s and tomorrow’s customer needs: optical and technical glass, glass ceramics and special materials e.g. powders, ceramics, sol-gel ...

Hot
Forming

Expert for hot processes after melting: especially forming processes of glass directly from the melt and reshaping of glass by reheating.

Laser
Processing

Identification, development and adoption of unique processing technologies: for cutting, structuring, shaping, joining or modifying edges and glass bodies; for filamentation and ablation, laser-induced scribing and cleaving, bending (uniaxial or multiaxial-3D), intrinsic decoration, marking and layer structuring.

Melting

New and optimized processes/technologies: for melting special glass and glass ceramics via lab experiments, test bed facility and modeling.

Coating
Development

Development of new functionalities for glass and glass ceramics via advanced coating and surface modification which allows glass to be more transparent, harder and scratch resistant.

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The right chemistry

Acids and alkalis cause most substances to go up in smoke. But not specialty glass: Even after six hours in boiling hydrochloric acid, it is virtually undamaged. This makes it an indispensable material for chemical applications with highly reactive substances.

Hidden Champions

When fighting cancer, the promise of a pharmaceutical drug being packaged in its proper type of glass is often overlooked. Even the best possible drug could not be stored, transported, or even administered without the right packaging. No one should have to worry about their own treatment.

New Dimensions of Protection

Our definition of progress involves achieving more protection and security in all aspects of life.
Materials, which are durable and flexible meet these criteria and bring it to a new level of meaning.

A paradigm shift in device development

Tom van Ginneken discusses polymer as a perfect fit for individualized containers.

Learning from the future

How companies are able to overcome economic and social upheaval to actively shape the future.

Challenge glass!

Challenge glass!
A Material for
the Future

Opportunity Lab

With startling range, you can create something entirely new!