OptoTech News
OptoNews 02/2012
Dear Customer, right to the start of the OPTATEC 2012 in Frankfurt, we would like to present you the most recent news of our company. The whole OptoTech-Team wishes you enjoyable reading of our OptoNews.
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Exhibition Report MIDO 2012
From march 11th to 13th, the 42nd MIDO, the world’s biggest international show for Optics, Ophthalmology and Optometry, was taking place in the Rho-Center in Milan. With 42000 visitors in 3 days, the show underlined its standing as being the world’s biggest exhibition for ophthalmics. About 1000 exhibitors from over 40 different countries showed their products in 6 different theme-pavilions.
The MIDO proved to be a complete success for OptoTech as a machine manufacturer and confirmed the companies leading role in the world market of ophthalmic RX-lenses. OptoTech, for the first time ever, showed a complete high-performance cell for freeform lens production. Besides our automatic surfacing-turning machine ASM Flash-A and the automatic polishing machine ASP 80 MULTItool DT-A, OptoTech presented the brand new automatic laser OTL 80 CNC-A. The slim design and the high capacity of up to 300 lenses per hour found great approval of the visitors of our booth.
Furthermore OptoTech showed a compact cell, consisting of our well approved ASM Flash light, our new ASP 80 CNC MULTI Twin and the compact Coating Machine OAC-25. The compact engraving machine OME 80 as well as a demonstration of our very own freeform software completed our product program on the MIDO 2012.
OptoNews 01/2012
Dear Customer, as in the past year we will present you the most recent developments of OptoTech regularly in the issues of our OptoNews. Our first issue in 2012, right to the beginning of the MIDO in Milan, will be all about ophthalmics. With immediate effect our OptoNews will feature videos of our very own YouTube channel to give you an impression of our machines in action. The whole team of OptoTech wishes you a nice time reading our OptoNews and watching the videos.
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Exhibition Report SIOF 2012
From February 22nd to 24th, the 12th Shanghai International Optics Fair (SIOF) was taking place. In the past couple of years, the biggest Chinese exhibition for ophthalmics gained more and more attention. As a matter of fact, this year the exhibition for the first time ever took place on the space of the former world exposition in Shanghai. In this new ambiance more than 850 exhibitors presented their products to the numerous interested visitors in 2 big exhibition halls, separated in one national hall and one international hall.
OptoTech presented amongst others our turning machine ASM Flash-M, the low-cost polisher Torilab FREEstyle and a sample of smaller machines like the OLM 80 CO2 Laser or the Pad-Printer OPP 1.The predominantly Chinese visitors were informed and consulted professionally and comprehensively about our product program by our General Manager, Mr. Thomas Krausgrill, and the staff of our Chinese partner company. Our constantly well attended booth as well as the concordantly positive feedback of the visitors once more acknowledged the excellent international reputation of OptoTech.
Inhouse Exhibition in China
To strengthen our standing in the Chinese region, we, together with our Chinese agency, organized a 2-day inhouse-exhibition in the city of Hanzhou. The event was splitted in two parts: On December 3rd we organized a seminar with several presentations in the Four Points by Sheraton in Hangzhou. Despite of other presentations, our General Manager Ophthalmics, Mr. Thomas Krausgrill, introduced our company and gave a speech of our freeform technologies. Afterwards, Mr. Tobias Mueller of our Software Design Department, held an oral presentation of our freeform software to the audience of nearly 50 people from 20 different local companies. The day ended with a dinner in the evening.
On December 4th, the visitors had the chance to get a closer look at our machines at our Chinese agency. In our showroom, we presented our freeform generator ASM Flash and our Freeform Software in detail and had the chance to directly answer to the questions of our visitors.
In sum, we had the chance to introduce our whole product portfolio and technologies in detail to the local companies and received great feedback which made the event a complete success.
OptoNews 03/2011
Dear customers, to the end of 2011 we would like to inform you about the latest developments at OptoTech. The current issue of our OptoNews will be all about the exciting field of measuring technology. The whole OptoTech-Team wishes you enjoyable reading of our OptoNews.
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Exhibition Report SILMO 2011
From September 29th to October 2nd SILMO, as the international gathering of the optics and eyewear sector, was taking place in Paris. 900 exhibitors from all over the world presented their products in the area of spectacle frames, sunglasses, glasses, lenses, instruments, machines and components.
As in the past years OptoTech Optikmaschinen GmbH had its own booth on the SILMO. Showing the new low-cost surfacing-turning machine ASM Flash light, polishing machine Torilab FREEstyle, pad printer OPP 1 and a new low-cost engraving system OME 80, OptoTech showed their expertise demonstrating just a small but high class part of their comprehensive machine program for the production of ophthalmic lenses. Presenting machines ASM Flash light and OME 80 both gaining a very positive feedback from the visitors and showing once more the good sense of the world market leader in technology for the up-to-date needs of their customers. CEO of OptoTech, Mr. Roland Mandler, said about this year’s SILMO: “The SILMO 2011, to my mind, was a complete success. On each of the four days, our booth was very well attended. I’ve been especially glad to welcome, besides our already existing customers, some new prospective customers on our booth to establish new business contacts for the future. My personal conclusion of the SILMO 2011: We will be back in 2012!”
OptoTech appoints Charlie Metzger as Regional Sales Manager North America
In our ongoing efforts to expand our operations and support for our North American customer base, we have the pleasure to announce the appointment of Charlie Metzger as Regional Sales Manager Precision Optics for North America. Charlie will support the activities of Matthias Pfaff (Business Unit Director Precision Optics, OptoTech Germany) and Heidi Hofke (General Manager, OptoTech Inc. USA).
Charlie has more than 30 years experience within the optical industry in both, manufacturing and administration. Early in his career, Charlie worked at the Leica Buffalo facility, both in a supervisory and process engineering capacity. Beyond that, he has spent numerous years helping to provide optics to military, aerospace and commercial industries.
At OptoTech, Charlie will be able to focus his engineering and manufacturing background on working with our customers to find the best solutions to their current and future equipment and processing requirements. With the combined knowledge and experience of both, Charlie and Matthias, we will strengthen our support for the North American Optical Industry.
Charlie is based at our office in Pennsylvania. Please join us in welcoming Charlie to the OptoTech family and don’t hesitate to contact him for any of your optical manufacturing needs. His contact details are as follows:
Charlie Metzger
Tel: 215 679 2091
Fax: 215 679 2013
Cell: 215 390 8237
E-mail: c.metzger
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25 Years OptoTech Celebration
On May 20th, the celebration of the 25th anniversary of OptoTech took place at the company's facility in Wettenberg. Among the approximately 100 invited guests, was the Hessian Prime Minister, Mr. Volker Bouffier, who congratulated OptoTech and highlighted the company as a "star of the Middlehessian Region". In 25 years the CEO of the OptoTech Optikmaschinen GmbH, Roland Mandler, has made his way from his first ideas, created in his own garage, to a true global player. Furthermore, Mr. Bouffier appreciated the strong collaboration of OptoTech with the universities of the region and named the company as an example worth emulating.
The hessian prime minister, Volker Bouffier, congratulates
the CEO of OptoTech, Mr. Roland Mandler
In his speech, Roland Mandler, told the guests about the compelling history of his company. Starting in his private garage in Kinzenbach, where the first machines originated, to the state-of-the-art and spacious production facilites in Wettenberg, Jena, Etziken (Switzerland) and Milan (Italy).
Tours through the production facility and the research labs of OptoTech, with product presentations for the guests, completed the celebration of the 25th anniversary.
Today, OptoTech employs about 150 employees in 5 facilities worldwide, about 100 of them in Wettenberg, and has an export ratio in excess of 80%.
OptoNews 02/2011
Dear customer, right to the start of the Optifab in Rochester (USA) we would like to inform you about the latest developments at OptoTech with the current issue of our OptoNews.
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OptoNews 01/2011
Dear customers, at the beginning of the new year we would like to inform you about the newest developments at OptoTech.Your OptoTech Team wishes you a nice time reading the newest issue of our OptoNews.
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OptoNews 2010
Dear customers, welcome to the newly designed website of OptoTech. There has been a lot of change in recent months. For the field of precision optics, our new newsletter will summarize this brief but informative. More news to follow shortly.
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Exhibition Report Optifab 2011
For the 5th time, Optifab was held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, NY (USA). Optifab is the leading event for optical fabrication. Also in 2011, Rochester underlined its position as the leading centre for optical production. With Eastman-Kodak as the historical foundation for optical technology in Rochester, the area is known as an incubation centre for many companies dealing with optical technologies similar to the German regions of Jena (Zeiss, Schott) and Wetzlar (Leitz/Leica and Hensoldt/Zeiss).
OptoTech participated at Optifab with a booth and showed only new products. As a world premiere, the new 80 CNC production line was presented, consisting of the SM 80 CNC Generator and the SPO 80 CNC Polisher. These machines define a new class of highly efficient optical equipment, with an excellent price to performance ratio. The exhibit was enhanced with the OWI 100 ECO Workshop Interferometer and the ZM 50 CNC TwinCut Edger, as well as software solutions for optical job planning and tool design.
New presented machines: SM 80 CNC and SPO 80 CNC
Despite a slight downturn in attendees, Optifab has been deemed a success by all exhibitors. Of particular interest was the high participation rate of European exhibitors and visitors, especially from Germany. German could be heard at many booths and in the aisles.
The exhibition was accompanied by a range of technical papers and talks. OptoTech’s President and CEO, Roland Mandler, gave an impressive presentation on the topic of processing free form optics.
He also commented “The economic upturn has also arrived in the United States. For OptoTech it was a very important mile stone. No other manufacturer can offer such a broad range of fabrication technology from one source. We were also able to demonstrate our status as the world market leader in North America”, stated Roland Mandler, President and CEO of OptoTech Optikmaschinen GmbH.
We all look forward to the next OptiFab 2013 to be held in Rochester October 14-17, 2013.