Schott AG
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 50.7 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 47.3 ″ E
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1884, Jena , Germany |
| Seat | Mainz , Germany |
| management |
Frank Heinricht Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Number of employees | 16,200 in 34 countries, of which 5,800 in Germany (2018/2019) |
| sales | 2.2 billion euros (2018/2019) |
| Branch | Glass production |
| Website | www.schott.com |
The Schott AG , with headquarters in Mainz ( Germany ) is an international technology group specializing in the manufacture of glass and glass-ceramic specializes. Frank Heinricht has been the company's CEO since 2013 .
history
Founded as a glass laboratory at the end of the 19th century
The beginnings of Schott AG go back to the year 1884. At that time Otto Schott , Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiß and his son Roderich Zeiß founded the glass technology laboratory Schott & Genossen in Jena , which initially produced optical glasses for microscopes and telescopes . In 1891 the Carl Zeiss Foundation , established by Ernst Abbe two years earlier, became a partner in the glass laboratory. With the invention of the chemically resistant, heat and temperature change resistant borosilicate glass , new technical glasses could be offered: thermometer glass, laboratory glasses and glass cylinders for gas lamps .
Foundation company
The new products ensured the company's rapid economic growth. In 1919 the number of employees was 1,233, sales doubled to 28 million marks by 1920 thanks to new products. In 1919 Otto Schott transferred his shares to the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The glass laboratory has been 100 percent a foundation company and in Jena Glaswerk Schott & Gen renamed. From 1927 Erich Schott , son of the company's founder Otto Schott, headed the glassworks.
Mainz becomes the new company headquarters
When the company location in Jena became part of the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War in 1945, the US military withdrew from the area, taking management and selected specialists with them to West Germany, including Richard Hirsch . The event went down in company history as the “Train of 41 glassmakers”. After intermediate stops in Heidenheim on the Ostalb in Württemberg and Zwiesel in Bavaria , the trip for the employees of the glassworks finally ended in Mainz , where Erich Schott had the current company headquarters built in 1952 in Mainz Neustadt - with two natural stone mosaics in the entrance area by Charles Crodel in memory of the main plant in Jena. The trigger for the new beginning was the expropriation of the Jena plant and the conversion into a state- owned company in 1948 and the political division of Germany one year later.
Analog German history was now divided into two parts, the company: In the eastern Jena there was the VEB Jena glassworks , later in the Kombinat VEB Carl Zeiss Jena integrated and western Mainz the Jena Glaswerk Schott & Gen . The intensive cooperation between the East and West German plants in the first post-war years was ended in 1953 by the GDR . While the state-owned company in Jena developed into one of the most important specialty glass suppliers in Eastern Europe , Erich Schott built up an international group of companies from Mainz with sales offices in Europe , America and Asia . With new products such as glass components for television picture tubes, glass fibers for light and image guides, mirror supports for large telescopes made of Zerodur , ceramic hob surfaces (in series production from 1973) and glass tubes for parabolic trough power plants, the company became a leading manufacturer of specialty glass. After the reunification of Germany , the plant in Mainz took over the shares of the Jena company.
Change to a technology group
The first decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall was marked by economic growth. SCHOTT Glas , as the company was called in 1998, developed into a technology group - with 80 companies in 32 countries and worldwide sales of over DM 3 billion . In 1984, in the 100th anniversary year, SCHOTT operated 40 production facilities in ten countries, and global sales were 1.31 billion DM. In view of growth and the challenges of global competition, the legal form of Schott Glas was changed as a “legally dependent company of Carl- Zeiss Foundation “changed to an independent stock corporation - Schott AG - with immediate effect. The Carl Zeiss Foundation is the sole shareholder . Selling these shares is not permitted according to the foundation statutes and an IPO is therefore excluded.
Entry and exit in the solar industry
In 2001, the technology group entered the solar industry and founded SCHOTT Solar GmbH in 2005 (since 2008: Schott Solar AG ). The subsidiary produced wafers, cells and modules for photovoltaics . At the same time, there was a commitment to Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology . With the manufacture of absorber tubes , Schott supplied the key component for generating electricity from solar energy in large power plants. In 2012 Schott withdrew from the solar business and Schott Solar AG was dissolved.
Company profile
Overview, governing bodies, economics
 
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In 2013 there was a change in company management. In February of that year, the Supervisory Board appointed Frank Heinricht as CEO of Schott AG with effect from June 1, 2013. He succeeded Udo Ungeheuer , who held the board position between 2004 and 2013. Heinricht strengthened the core areas: pharmaceutical packaging, ceramic cooktops, fireplace panes and fire protection glasses as well as components for the protection of sensitive electronics.
In the 2016/2017 financial year, Schott achieved sales of 2.05 billion euros and an annual profit of 197 million euros (2015/2016 financial year: 139 million euros). In the following financial year 2017/2018, sales increased again to 2.08 billion euros with an annual profit of 208 million euros. In the 2018/2019 financial year, sales were 2.2 billion euros and the annual profit was 206 million euros. Schott AG employs around 16,200 people in production and sales facilities in 34 countries, including around 5,800 in Germany (as of 2019).
Works in Germany
- Mainz : Optical glass, Ceran glass ceramic cooktops, Robax fire viewing panels, glass fibers, pharmaceutical tubes
- Green plan : thin glasses
- Jena : fire protection glass
- Landshut : Electronic Packaging
- Mitterteich : Glass tubes, rods and profiles for technical and pharmaceutical applications
- Müllheim : pharmaceutical packaging
Product portfolio
Schott produces a large number of special glasses and glass ceramics in large quantities for many industries such as household appliances, pharmaceuticals , electronics , optics , life sciences , the automotive and aviation industries . The outstanding products for individual projects include the telescope mirror carriers for astronomy :
- Very Large Telescope (1991–1993: four mirrors, each 8.2 m in diameter)
- Keck Observatory (1993–1996: two segmented mirrors , each 10.0 m in diameter)
- Gran Telescopio Canarias (2007-2008: a segmented mirror with a diameter of 10.4 m)
In 2017, Schott received the order to manufacture four out of five mirrors for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) . With a diameter of the main mirror of 39 meters, it will be the world's largest optical telescope. Schott was awarded the contract for the delivery of 4 of the 5 mirror carriers, including the main mirror: 798 hexagons made of Zerodur glass ceramic form the main mirror when assembled. The ELT is scheduled to go into operation in Chile in 2024.
Brands
In addition to the best-known brands CERAN (glass ceramic cooking surfaces ) and PYRAN (fire protection glasses), these include ROBAX (fire viewing panels), FIOLAX (glass tubes for pharmaceutical containers), HelioJet ( aircraft cabin lighting), PURAVIS (glass fibers for medical technology ), Zerodur ( glass ceramic for telescope mirror carriers and the Semiconductor industry ). The Duran laboratory glassware brand was sold.
Ownership
The sole owner of Schott AG is the Carl Zeiss Foundation , which holds all the shares and a. financed from the dividend .
Social Commitment
Schott AG is also involved in social areas. It organizes the annual Run for Children charity run , which takes place on the 400-meter track run by the TSV Schott Mainz sports club and has raised around 1.7 million euros for children in need since it was first launched in 2006. Schott has been organizing and financing the worldwide exchange of employee children since 2014. Under the motto Schott goes Family , 32 young people from ten countries spent two weeks with their exchange partners at their families abroad. The campaign offers young people the opportunity to gain international experience and to develop an understanding of other cultures. In 2009, Schott donated three new bells for the Church of St. Stephan in Mainz.
Schott AG is the main sponsor of TSV Schott Mainz , which is the largest popular sports club in Rhineland-Palatinate with around 4,600 members in 30 sports. In addition, Schott AG is also the main sponsor of SV Schott Jena , one of the largest popular sports clubs in Thuringia with more than 1,300 members in 13 different sports.
Awards
Schott AG has already received several awards for its products. Among other things, the company received the German Innovation Award 2010 for the environmentally friendly manufacturing process for Ceran glass ceramic cooktops, the Corporate Environmental Achievement Award 2013 from the American Ceramic Society , the Interior Innovation Award 2015, awarded by the imm cologne interior design fair , as Best of the Best in in the kitchen and household category as well as the 2016 German Industry Innovation Prize for ultra-thin glass. In addition, Schott Ceran was named Brand of the Century by the Deutsche Standards publishing house in 2013 and 2016 .
See also
literature
- Dieter Kappler, Jürgen Steiner: Schott 1884–2009. From a glass laboratory to a technology group. 1st edition. Universitätsdruckerei H. Schmidt, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-935647-45-8 (264 pages).
- Rolf Sachsse, Ulrike Ellguth-Malakhov, Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland, Miriam Halwani: Albert Renger-Patzsch - industrial photography for SCHOTT . Ed .: SCHOTT AG, LWL-Industriemuseum. 1st edition. VDG Weimar - Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-89739-730-9 (110 pages).
Movie
- A glass for all cases - Schott AG in Mainz - TV documentary by SWR from the series made in Südwest , first broadcast on May 20, 2015 ( brief overview of contents ); Online HD video (840 MB) - pd-ondemand.swr.de (currently available, as of July 25, 2016)
Web links
- Literature on the subject of Schott AG in the catalog of the German National Library
- Schott AG homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] In: Schott AG , accessed on January 24, 2020.
- ↑ From glass laboratory to technology group. Historic milestones. SCHOTT AG, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b History: Schott 1884 - 2009. In: Schott AG , accessed on January 20, 2016.
- ↑ SCHOTT is now a stock corporation. Messe München GmbH, July 2, 2004, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Schott Solar confirms withdrawal. Alfons W. Gentner Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ SCHOTT completes sale of CSP business. SCHOTT AG has completed the sale of the CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) business to the Spanish company Rioglass Solar. In: press release. SCHOTT AG ,, April 14, 2016, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ cs: Frank Heinricht , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/2014 from February 18, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ Board of Directors Dr. Frank Heinricht Chairman of the Board of Management of SCHOTT AG. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ SCHOTT increases sales and plans record investments. In: Press release on the balance sheet press conference. SCHOTT AG, Press Office, January 16, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
- ^ Schott mirror support from Mainz. Astronomical Working Group Mainz e. V., accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Rene Purwin: Targeted pulling on the optics. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, July 31, 1992, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) officially inaugurated. Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, July 24, 2009, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ ESO signs contracts for the giant primary mirror of the ELT. In: ESO press release eso1717. European Southern Observatory, May 13, 2017, accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ World's largest telescope for the Atacama Desert. Mainz cast mirrors for giant telescopes. SWR, January 20, 2017, accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ PYRAN®. In: Product Description. SCHOTT AG, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Tasks and goals according to § 1 of the foundation statutes. Carl Zeiss Foundation, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ history. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ SCHOTT organizes international exchanges for employees' children. “SCHOTT goes Family” promotes intercultural understanding. July 23, 2015, accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ^ Bells of St. Stephen. Catholic Parish Office St. Stephan, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ main sponsor. TSV SCHOTT Mainz e. V., accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Sponsors and supporters. SV SCHOTT Jena e. V., accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ The German Innovation Prize 2010. Winner of the Innovation Prize: Forging ideas. WirtschaftsWoche, April 30, 1010, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ^ Corporate Environmental Achievement Award. The American Ceramic Society, accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Imm Cologne 2015 News: winners of the Interior Innovation Awards 2015. Design Contract, January 20, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2017 (English).