MEDIA RELEASE PR35297
Jenoptik Broadens Presence in Asia With Laser Systems Applications Center for Material Processing
JENA, July 7 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Jenoptik's Lasers & Material Processing division will in future be
represented in the Asian market with a laser application center, in close
cooperation with the Korean company Telstar-Hommel Corp.. Byung-Hoon Im,
President and CEO of Telstar-Hommel, and Michael Mertin, CEO of JENOPTIK AG,
signed the shareholders agreement for JENOPTIK Korea Corp., on July 2nd.
Telstar-Hommel will hold 33.3 percent of shares in the company which is
headquartered in Pyeongtaek (Gyeonggi Province). With 66.6 percent, JENOPTIK
AG will be the majority shareholder.
With the joint company, Jenoptik is boosting its direct presence in Asia.
By the beginning of next year, an application center for Asian customers of
the Lasers & Material Processing division will be built locally. The partners
will invest a total of 4.4 million US dollars.
The application center is aimed at the entire Asian market and is due to
open in early 2010. Jenoptik will present a range of systems for laser
material processing there, specifically addressing the electronics,
flat-panel, and photovoltaics industries. Jenoptik laser processing systems
will then be available to interested parties for processing brittle materials
such as display glass, solar cells, ceramics and silicon wafers, as well as
for the special laser separation method for these materials, so-called
TLS-dicing (TLS = thermal laser separation). Customers may test production
techniques on the systems and refine them in accordance with their
requirements.
The optoelectronics group Jenoptik divides its activities into the five
divisions Lasers & Material Processing, Optical Systems, Industrial
Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defense & Civil Systems. Its customers
mainly include companies in the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment
manufacturing industry, automotive and automotive supplier industry, medical
technology, security and defense technology as well as the aerospace
industry.
Contact:
Katrin Lauterbach
+49(0)3641-652255
SOURCE: Jenoptik AG
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