Lasers & Sources

Cobolt is renamed Hübner Photonics; Hübner opens US office

April 18, 2019

The new direct office is an expansion of the current Cobolt office that will essentially be renamed.

Hübner Photonics, a division of the German Hübner Group, announces the opening of a new direct office in the USA. The new direct office is an expansion of the current Cobolt office that will essentially be renamed.

"Renaming and expanding the Cobolt Inc. office is a logic consequence of the consolidation of all lasers and photonics businesses within HÜBNER into HÜBNER Photonics and with this name change and expansion we will be able to address the whole North American market more coherently with the full HÜBNER Photonics portfolio. From the new HUBNER Photonics Inc. office we will continue to offer the full range of high performance Cobolt lasers, the CW tunable laser C-WAVE along with our full selection of C-FLEX laser combiners. We will continue to serve our customers with the same dedication and excellent support as we have always strived for," says Håkan Karlsson, CEO of Cobolt and head of Hübner Photonics.

Hübner Photonics was formed in 2016, following the acquisition of the Swedish laser manufacturer Cobolt by Hübner Group. Hübner Photonics consolidates all the laser and photonics businesses and has manufacturing sites in Solna, Sweden (Cobolt) and in Kassel, Germany. As a logical consequence of this business structure development, and in order to address the US market coherently with all its products, not only the Cobolt laser product line, the decision was made to rename the Cobolt office Hübner Photonics.

Hübner will offer the full range of high performance Cobolt lasers, the CW tunable laser C-WAVE, along with its full selection of C-FLEX laser combiners.

The Hübner Photonics products are manufactured in Solna, Sweden (Cobolt) and in Kassel, Germany. The Hübner Photonics offices are in San Jose, CA. The name change is effective from April 12th, 2019.

SOURCE: Hübner Photonics; https://www.hubner-photonics.com/hubner-photonics-opens-direct-sales-office-usa/

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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.