Opening Microscopy Customer Center: ZEISS Opens New Microscopy Customer Center

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 25.04.2017.

On 24 April 2017 ZEISS opened the new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe at the Oberkochen site. This is the most comprehensive ZEISS Customer Center including light, electron and X-ray microscopy in a single location: here users from Industry and Academia can try out correlative workflows between the different microscopy technologies and also advanced 3D microscopy.

On two floors covering a surface area of 1,200 square meters, almost the complete microscopy technology portfolio is presented in a state-of-the-art environment. The Customer Center additionally features a lab with biosafety level 1 for work with living biological materials.

Every year, several hundred customers can test the extensive portfolio of microscope systems in demonstrations and familiarize themselves with their performance and operation in product training classes. "In the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe we provide a broad spectrum of microscopy methods under one roof," explains Dr. Markus Weber, Co-CEO of ZEISS Microscopy. "Our customers can witness the excellence of our systems for themselves on site and experience the complete technology portfolio in one go."

The ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center for Europe is the central hub for customers of the Microscopy business group in Europe. To create this new combined facility, the Customer Center formerly sited in Munich was transferred to Oberkochen. "The site is particularly attractive because in Oberkochen, the headquarters of the ZEISS Group, customers can experience the other ZEISS business groups and visit the ZEISS Museum of Optics," says Justus Felix Wehmer, Co-CEO of ZEISS Microscopy.

ZEISS celebrated the opening of the Customer Center with around 170 customers from Europe. In his guest lecture Professor Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS, Halle), focused on the digital transformation and the opportunities and challenges it presents to microscopy.

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Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

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About ZEISS

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. The ZEISS Group develops, produces and distributes measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cinema lenses, binoculars and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. ZEISS is divided up into the four segments Research & Quality Technology, Medical Technology, Vision Care/Consumer Products and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology. The ZEISS Group is represented in more than 40 countries and has over 50 sales and service locations, more than 30 manufacturing sites and about 25 research and development centers around the globe. In fiscal year 2015/16 the company generated revenue approximating 4.9 billion with over 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

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Microscopy

The Microscopy business group is the worlds only one-stop manufacturer of light, electron, X-ray and ion microscope systems. The portfolio compromises solutions and services for the life sciences and materials research as well as for industry, education and clinical practice. The business group is headquartered in Jena. Additional production and development sites are located in Oberkochen, G ttingen and Munich, as well as in Cambridge in the UK, and in Peabody, MA and Pleasanton, CA in the USA. The business group is allocated to the Research & Quality Technology segment. Around 6,100 employees work for the segment, generating revenue totaling 1.5 billion in fiscal year 2015/16.

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