Photonic-systems supplier SwissOptic AG restructures

June 1, 2011
SwissOptic AG, a photonics subsidiary of the Berliner Glas Group (Berlin, Germany), has a new business structure.

Heerbrugg, Switzerland--SwissOptic AG, a photonics subsidiary of the Berliner Glas Group (Berlin, Germany), has a new business structure.

At the SwissOptic site, operations have been organized into Business Units Semicon (inspection), Geosystems & Metrology, and Defense. In addition, a Medical Applications Business Unit is also present at SwissOptic in Heerbrugg, but which is run from the Berliner Glas Group.

In the course of the restructuring process, Swissoptic received a new management team, with the physicist and manager Hans Ebinger as the new general manager.

Ebinger has been supported in his new role since March, 2011 by Peter Grollmann, head of the Semicon (inspection) business unit. Further support comes from Pavel Dokulil, who heads the Defense business unit as of June 1, 2011. The position of head of the Geosystems & Metrology business unit will be filled as of August 1, 2011. Nicolas Hetzel has been responsible since April, 2011 for the Medical Applications market segment, which will be run in Berlin by Sven Knuth.

"Alongside the pure focus on the market, in the future we will also be placing even greater emphasis on metrology and technological development by organizing it in a site-spanning manner," says Andreas Nitze, CEO of the Berliner Glas Group.

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