2008

• 15.01.2008
  2007 - Best year in company’s history

2007

• 22.03.2007
  Microstructures made from CERAN® & ROBAX® glass ceramic

• 12.01.2007
  2006 - Excellent annual balance

2007 - Best year in company’s history

POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH with positive annual balance: continuous growth and new capabilities for optical systems

POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH, Germany, realised a turnover of more than 10,5 million US$ over the past fiscal year 2007. This corresponds to an increase of almost 10%.

„Therewith, 2007 is once again the most successful year in the 16 years of our company’s history.", said Manfred Schubach, the Managing Director.

A major investment project was realised in the cause of the year. Almost two million US$ were spent in new CNC controlled equipment for the production of precision optical components and for a new assembly department for optical systems in a class 1000 clean room environment. Production capacities were extended and new, higher requirements of a growing number of customers from semiconductor industry, machine vision, and aerospace and defence can be accomplished.

„For 2008 order inflow and order balance are on a high level - we intend to continue our successful growth especially in the field of optical systems and in our special area of expertise – the production of optical microstructures.” said Manfred Schubach. The next investment project in that field is already in progress: the optimization of the production of especially small and demanding microstructures for microscopy and medical technology, machine vision, and sports optics.

Microstructures made from CERAN ® & ROBAX ® glass ceramics

POG offers stage micrometers and custom microstructures made from CERAN ® & ROBAX ® glass ceramics.

CERAN ® and ROBAX ®feature, like ZERODUR ®, a high mechanical stability and a thermal expansion of virtually zero.

The engraved serial number and the optional available official DKD certification make it an ideal calibrated measurement equipment.

Due to the high contrast of the high reflective chrome structures on the dark CERAN ® background these stage micrometers are in particular suitable for applications in reflected light. ROBAX has virtually similar specifications but a higher transmission in the visible range and is therefore applicable for throughlight applications.

Three different versions – 1mm in 100 divisions, 2mm in 200 divisions & 70mm with 4different divisions (see picture) especially designed for stereo microscopes are standard products available from stock.

2006 - Best year in company’s history

POG Präzisionsoptik Gera with positive annual balance: Rising turnover and new investments

POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH, Germany, realised a turnover of around 8.5 million US$ over the past fiscal year 2006. This corresponds to an increase of more than 25%.
„Therewith, 2006 is the most successful year in the 15 years of our company’s history. ", said Manfred Schubach, the Managing Director. Above all, the sales abroad have performed very well and have risen by 50%. Currently, export sales make up nearly 50% of the firm’s total sales
volume. Important partners are companies in Italy, Norway, Switzerland and the United States.

Nearly a third of the turnover and a large part of growth were realized in the key areas of complex optical systems produced for demanding applications in machine vision and metrology in the semiconductor and aerospace and defence industries.

The very good market share in the field of optical microstructures could be extended with new customers e.g. in microscopy or medical technology.

As a result of the encouraging development, six new employees were hired over the year, two of them in R&D projects. Therewith, POG has a total of 90 employees.

„Also in 2007, we intend to continue our successful growth. We already started new investments of around 1.7 million US$ in modernization and expansion of our lens and prism manufacturing. This will also provide the basis for future demanding projects in the custom optical systems market” said Manfred Schubach.