In 2008, Schott announced that it planned to produce crystalline photovoltaic cells and modules with a total of 450 MW annually. The technology group entered the solar industry in 2001, founding Schott Solar GmbH in 2005 (renamed Schott Solar AG in 2008). The Foundation Statute does not permit to sell its shares, ruling out the prospect of an IPO. The Carl Zeiss Foundation remains the sole shareholder of Schott AG. In 2004, Schott Glas converted from a dependent enterprise of its sister enterprise Carl Zeiss (Oberkochen) to become a legally independent Aktiengesellschaft-Schott AG. Schott had been operating at only 40 sites in ten countries with global sales of DM 1.31 billion in 1984. Schott Glas, as it became known in 1998, developed into a technology group with 80 companies in 32 countries and global sales of over 3 billion Deutschmark. The company experienced growth in the first decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following the German reunification, the Mainz plant assumed Jena’s company shares. The company became a specialist glass manufacturer with products including glass components for television tubes, fiber optics for light and image conductors, mirror substrates for giant telescopes, glass-ceramic cooktop panels (serial production from 1973) and glass tubes for parabolic trough power plants. While the state-owned company in Jena developed into one of the most important specialty glass suppliers in Eastern Europe, Erich Schott developed an international group in Mainz with sales offices in Europe, the US and Asia. The company was divided in half: VEB Jenaer Glaswerk in Jena in East Germany, later integrated into the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena collective, and Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen in Mainz in West Germany. In the midst of Germany’s political division after World War II, the Jena factory was expropriated transformed into a state-owned entity in 1948. Erich Schott, the founder’s son, took over management of the glass factory in 1927. Otto Schott transferred his shares to the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1919, fully rendering the glass laboratory a foundation company and renaming it Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen (Jena Glassworks Schott & Assoc.). Sales had doubled to 28 million marks by 1920. The workforce had grown to 1,233 by 1919.
The company experienced economic success.
Products of Jenaer Glaswerks Schott & Gen at an exhibition in 1951. The invention of borosilicate glass, resistant to chemicals, heat and temperature change, paved the way for new technical glasses for thermometers, laboratory equipment and gas lamps. Jena glass, an early borosilicate glass, was one of its early manufactured products. In 1891, the Carl Zeiss Foundation founded two years earlier by Ernst Abbe became a partner in the glass laboratory. In 1884, Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and his son Roderich Zeiss founded the Glastechnische Laboratorium Schott & Genossen (Glass Technical Laboratory Schott & Associates) in Jena, which initially produced optical glasses for microscopes and telescopes. ( January 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įounding Company founder and namesake Otto Schott The glass technical laboratory founded in Jena in 1884 The first hexagonal segments for the main mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) being cast by Schott Please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This section relies excessively on references to primary sources.
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