The start of the new 2011/12 fiscal year also marked the launch of Carl
Zeiss Microscopy. 2,500 employees of MicroImaging und Nano Technology Systems
now form the new business group in the Carl Zeiss Group. In the future the
company will be the world's only supplier to offer one-stop, innovative systems
and solutions for light and electron microscopy.
Customers want integrated solutions
Customers from research and industry are increasingly using both systems
and want integrated software and workflow solutions. The combination of Carl
Zeiss MicroImaging and Nano Technology Systems into one business group fully
reflects this trend. "By fusing the two worlds of microscopy, we are
opening up totally new perspectives to our customers in science and
industry," says Dr. Ulrich Simon, Head of Carl Zeiss Microscopy. "Carl
Zeiss has been a pioneer in this field for more than 160 years. Carl Zeiss and
Ernst Abbe together invented scientific microscopy more than 160 years ago.
Since then, the company has constantly played a crucial role in shaping the
progress of this technology. We are now opening an exciting new chapter in this
success story."
Dr. Frank Stietz, Head of the Materials Division at Carl Zeiss
Microscopy: "Today, in view of current technological developments and
customer expectations, it is only logical that the two areas should merge.
However, the market was totally different ten years ago. At that time the
majority of electron microscopy customers came from the semiconductor
industry." The Nano Technology Systems division is now being removed from
the Semiconductor Manufacturing technology business group and incorporated in
Carl Zeiss Microscopy.
Correlative technology underscores just how much potential is offered by
combining light and electron microscopy. One prominent example is Professor
Jeff Lichtman of Harvard
University, who is
pioneering brain mapping with light and electron microscopy by generating
three-dimensional maps of the brain. This is a groundbreaking project that is
comparable to the decoding of the genome. In industry, integrated systems
enable enormous advances in productivity for particle analysis, for example:
instead of the 30 minutes required in the past, the automated examination now
takes just a few seconds.
More clout for more growth
Since 1 October 2011, Carl Zeiss Microscopy has been operating all over
the world with a uniform market identity and a shared sales organization. The
company is represented with sales and service operations in 33 countries, and
with production and research sites in six countries around the globe. "The
integration will make us the world's leading microscope provider for the life
sciences and industry," Simon explains. "In addition, we are opening
up new growth potential in the life sciences and industry on the one hand, and
in the rapidly developing economies on the other." Competition is
increasing all over the world: microscopy is a fast-growing market because it
is increasingly developing into a basic technology that is now firmly
established in many different fields. It is a market that is characterized by
big providers and small specialists for specific technologies. The new Carl
Zeiss Microscopy business group combines two strengths: it has the right size
to carry clout and offers technological expertise covering the entire microscopy
process. "The bundling of R&D and investments has laid an important
foundation for this. We expect a further expansion of our two-digit growth. Our
long-term goal is to become the leading customer contact for everything related
to microscopy," Simon adds. "The next step is the legal integration
of the two companies in Germany
due for finalization by the summer of 2012. In the USA,
France, UK and Japan the legal integration has
already been completed.
For more information visit
www.zeiss.de
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