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Jenoptik opens application center in Silicon Valley

Jan. 8, 2018

The center will serve as a hub to integrate competencies from other development centers of Jenoptik worldwide.

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IMAGE. The new Jenoptik application center is located in this shared corporate center in Fremont, CA. (Courtesy Jenoptik)

Jenoptik (Jena, Germany) has opened a Silicon Valley office to enhance customer proximity and leverage growth in the U.S. The new office in Fremont will help customers realizing their innovation goals and provide local support. The center will also serve as a hub to connect and integrate competencies from other development centers of Jenoptik worldwide.

“As a result of Jenoptik’s strong growth, we continue to expand our North American operations,” said Stefan Traeger, President & CEO of Jenoptik. “The opening of our Application Center in California will broaden our footprint and enable us to better serve our West Coast customers by giving them convenient access to our wide range of technological know-how, our customized systems engineering and our application solutions experience.”

With more than 30 facilities worldwide and eight offices now in the U.S., Jenoptik continues to realize growth in markets including life science, medical systems, laser material processing, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry, and silicon photonics.

Source: Jenoptik

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Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.