Jenoptik lasers for medical applications
BEAM OF BRILLIANCE Integrated optoelectronics group Jenoptik continues to utilise its competitive advantage to provide hightechnology solutions to its customers worldwide. Emma-Jane Batey spoke to Michael Fichtner, head of sales for Jenoptik’s Lasers business unit, to find out more.
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Michael Fichtner, head of sales, Jenoptik’s Lasers business unit
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enoptik, headquartered in Germany, divides its activities into five divisions: Lasers & Material Processing, Optical Systems, Industrial Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defence & Civil Systems. With major production sites abroad in the USA, France and Switzerland as well as shareholdings in Singapore, India, China, Korea, Japan and Australia, the group is represented in more than 80 countries worldwide and is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange and included in the TecDax index. Its customers around the world mainly include companies in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry, automotive, medical technology, security and defence technology as well as the aviation industry. Jenoptik has approximately 3430 employees and generated sales of about €600 million in 2013.
Michael Fichtner is the head of sales for the Jenoptik Lasers business unit. He spoke to Industry Europe about how his business unit is integrated into the Lasers & Material Processing division of Jenoptik and into the whole Jenoptik group and how its performance is proving positive. “Within the Lasers & Material Processing division we have two units: Lasers and Laser Processing Systems. The Lasers unit offers the actual lasers and the other offers the related material processing. I’m specifically connected to the Lasers unit although both units work very closely together to deliver solutions to our customers and also to other Jenoptik divisions.” The Laser Processing Systems unit develops and manufactures complete systems that require lasers, such as specialist 3D metal cutting machines for applications like metal tube cutting and other applications that use robots to cut metal,
