Jena is the founding location of today's SCHOTT Group. Here you will find the group’s main competence centres for float technology and diagnostics.

The birthplace of a global company
Jena is the founding location of the global corporation SCHOTT AG (the AG meaning “Aktiengesellschaft”, a shareholder-controlled company). Back in 1884, Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss founded the "Glass Technology Laboratory Schott und Gen.,” the nucleus of today's SCHOTT Group.

Today's principal focus of SCHOTT’s operations in Jena is the development, production, and processing of high strength and extremely thermal and chemical resistant specialty glasses. Floated borosilicate glass is processed here as the key material for a wide variety of products, including fire-resistant and safety glazing, impact-resistant smartphone cover glass, products for life science and diagnostics, vehicle glazing, and glass for home appliances.

In addition, Jena is the home the SCHOTT Archives and the SCHOTT Villa museum, which you can visit free of charge.

What SCHOTT offer

Markets and Applications
At its Jena base, SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions and SCHOTT MINIFAB specialises in highly stable and chemical resistant specialty glass products. The resulting portfolio includes floated and rolled borosilicate glass ideal for a wide variety of applications, including fire and safety glass for architectural use, glass substrates for optical filters and lenses, substrates for life science and diagnostic consumables, glass for wafer production in semiconductor technology, components for industrial plants, and floated lithium-aluminosilicate glass types for the consumer electronics markets.

Products
BOROFLOAT® has set new industry standards as the world’s first floated borosilicate glass. Available in a wide range of thicknesses, its outstanding transparency, mechanical strength as well as thermal and chemical resistance make it suitable for applications in many innovative markets. The rolled borosilicate glass SUPREMAX® offers similar advantages in greater thicknesses.

PYRAN®, PYRANOVA® and PYRAN® Platinum are market leaders in fire-resistant glazing solutions, while Xensation® cover glass family constantly sets new standards for mobile devices. Furthermore, NEXTERION® is the go-to brand for high quality glass substrates with special features like structuring, coating, marking serving the diagnostics and life science industries.