Jenoptik opens new medical technology site in Berlin

Together with the employees of the Berlin sites in Germany and guests, the photonics group Jenoptik today officially celebrated the completion of its new site on “Gross-Berliner Damm” in Berlin on June 23. In the new production facilities and state-of-the-art environment, more than 100 employees will develop and manufacture optical components and systems especially for dentistry (intraoral scanners) and robot-assisted surgery.

Growth on a state-of-the-art site

Over the past six months, Jenoptik has invested around 20 million euros in the new site on “Gross-Berliner Damm” in the Berlin district of Treptow-Koepenick. State-of-the-art space will be available, including more than 1,000 sqm of clean room production space and around 600 sqm of logistics space as well as office and recreation rooms. Additional space of approx. 600 sqm will be held in reserve for future growth.

“We are proud that we now have another location here in Berlin with state-of-the-art equipment and great growth potential in the Jenoptik Group. The life science & medical technology market, along with semiconductor & electronics and smart mobility, is one of the three photonics core markets on which we are focusing our future growth. Our colleagues in Berlin have shown much patience and flexibility over the past few months and have continued to drive the business and expand it. For this, I would like to thank them and the entire team, which completed the project in such a short time and under conditions that were not easy,” said Dr. Stefan Traeger, President & CEO of JENOPTIK AG.

Berlin as an important location for Jenoptik's medical technology business

In November 2021, Jenoptik completed the acquisition of BG Medical, significantly strengthening its medical technology business. The Berlin-based company has been operating under the Jenoptik brand since the beginning of 2022 and has been integrated into Jenoptik’s Advanced Photonic Solutions division. With its comprehensive expertise and product portfolio covering 3D imaging, laser and dental systems as well as visualization technologies for minimally invasive, robot-assisted surgery, it represents a significant part of the Jenoptik Group’s medical technology business.

Jenoptik specializes in photonic technologies and systems and is a reliable and flexible partner for the development and production of life science and medical technology applications, among others. The focus here is on light sources and imaging systems for analytical applications in the life science sector (DNA sequencing, cell imaging, tissue and blood analysis) and diagnostic applications in medical technology. In addition, laser-based solutions for therapeutic applications are developed in the medical technology area, for example disk lasers for ophthalmology, diode lasers for aesthetic applications, systems for dentistry as well as minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery.

Jenoptik has around 200 employees in Berlin

Semiconductor laser diodes, which are used as the core element of diode lasers in medical applications as well as in materials processing and metrology, are also manufactured in Berlin – at the Jenoptik fab in Berlin’s Adlershof Science and Technology Park in the close vicinity of the new site that has now been completed. With the acquisition of optical metrology specialist TRIOPTICS, headquartered in Wedel near Hamburg, the Jenoptik Group added another Berlin location also in Adlershof in 2020. Jenoptik has a total of 200 employees at its three sites in Berlin, Germany.

By 2025: Sales from Medical Technology & Life Science at around 25 percent of Group sales

Alongside Semiconductors & Electronics and Smart Mobility, the Life Science & Medical Technology market is one of the three photonics core markets on which Jenoptik is focusing with its Agenda 2025 "More Value". The Life Science & Medical Technology market is then expected to contribute around 25 percent to sales (2022: around 14 percent).

Optical technologies are the basic business: Jenoptik is a globally active photonics group and operates in the two divisions Advanced Photonic Solutions and Smart Mobility Solutions. The non-photonic activities, which are focused in particular on the automotive market, are managed as independent brands under the Non-Photonic Portfolio Companies. Key markets include above all Semiconductors & Electronics, Life Science & Medical Technology and Smart Mobility.  More than 4,400 employees work for the Jenoptik Group worldwide, with headquarters in Jena (Germany).

Tradition and modernity

Optical technologies from Berlin Brandenburg have a long tradition whose roots go back to the 19th century and still represent an important branch of industry in the region today. Microsystems technology, on the other hand, is a relatively young branch of industry that is emblematic of the demands of global competition on innovative products: smaller, more powerful and less expensive. Thus, Berlin Brandenburg combines tradition and modernity in the cluster and in this way creates the basis for the sustainable development of regional companies and the creation of new jobs in the industry and its numerous fields of application.

The optics and photonics cluster in Berlin Brandenburg is characterized in particular by its strong scientific base and the high number of specialized, small and medium-sized companies with a wide range of expertise. This creates ideal conditions for the mutual transfer between science and industry and at the same time is a driver for innovations in other sectors. The innovative core of the cluster is made up of more than 400 technology companies as well as 10 universities and 26 non-university research institutions, 11 of which are located in Brandenburg and 25 in Berlin. This core employs 16,600 people - a top figure by international standards.

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Source: press release Jenoptik " Jenoptik opens new medical technology site in Berlin", June 23, 2023