November 18, 2011 — Citing a change in the microscope customer market over the past decade, Carl Zeiss launchEd Carl Zeiss Microscopy. 2,500 employees of MicroImaging und Nano Technology Systems now form the new business group in the Carl Zeiss Group.

Fusing Carl Zeiss MicroImaging and Nano Technology Systems into one business group reflects the customer base in research and industry, who are increasingly using both light and electron systems. Combining the groups will better integrate software and workflow across these products.

Ten years ago, says Dr. Frank Stietz, Head of the Materials Division at Carl Zeiss Microscopy, the majority of electron microscope users were in the semiconductor industry. The Nano Technology Systems division moving from the Semiconductor Manufacturing technology business group into Carl Zeiss Microscopy to reflect the diversification of customers.

Combined light and electron microscopy work is enabling new research areas, like 3D brain maps being made at Harvard University by Professor Jeff Lichtman, the company notes. In industry, integrated systems enable enormous advances in productivity for particle analysis, for example.

Carl Zeiss Microscopy now operates globally with a uniform market identity and a shared sales organization. The company is represented with sales and service operations in 33 countries, and with production and research sites in six. The reorganization of business groups opens new growth potential in life sciences and industry, as well as in rapidly developing economies on the other. The next step is the legal integration of the two companies in Germany due for finalization by the summer of 2012. In the USA, France, UK and Japan, the legal integration has already been completed.

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