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Zeiss creates myopia advisory board
ZEISS has announced the creation of a myopia adivory board to advise the group on various aspects related to myopia management. The board, which was established last year, comprises fourteen experts from clinical practice in optometry and ophthalmology, academia and the business world, covering several regions. Professor Padmaja Sankaridurg, head ...
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ArticleZeiss acquires IP from Mitsui Chemicals
Zeiss Vision Care has acquired a “comprehensive intellectual property (IP) portfolio, including a suite of patents,” from Mitsui Chemicals (MCI), a Japanese company with wide-ranging business lines, among them “vision care materials,” and an R&D department split between synthesis, polymer science and tech for manufacturing processes. Zeiss has not disclosed ...
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ArticleZEISS Consumer Markets unit up 5% in fiscal year, group topline over €10 bn
ZEISS Group has reported record revenue of €10.1 billion for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, up by 15 percent compared with 2021/22 and over the symbolic €10 bn mark for the first time. As shown in the table below, the group’s growth was largely driven by its semiconductor business ...
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ArticleTooz smart eyewear keeps focus on optical engines and scalability
After many years of teasing, spectacular announcements and some renouncements by industry players, smart glasses are now on the verge of fulfilling their initial promises and entering the mass consumer market. All of a sudden, it seems like an entire industry is in the starting blocks as years of research ...
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ZEISS unveils Research Award recipients at Deutsches Museum
The ZEISS Group remitted its Research Awards at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, which is celebrating the centenary of its planetarium, earlier this week. The main award went to Prof. Dr. Immanuel Block for his research in quantum optics. Among the three recipients of the Carl Zeiss Award for Young ...
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News briefsZeiss to supply lenses for new Apple’s headset
Zeiss will be offering corrective optical inserts for Apple’s new Vision Pro augmented-reality (AR) headset. According to TechCrunch, these inserts will be magnetic. As readers might recall from our reports in January and March, Apple has of late both reduced and expanded its ambitions in AR, scrapping plans for ...
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Tooz presents smart glasses with individual vision correction at trade show
Tooz, the smart glasses unit of the Zeiss Group, will showcase its prescription smart glasses at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA trade show starting today and lasting until June 2 in Santa Clara, California. The complete customer experience will be presented at its booth where visitors will be able ...
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Zeiss Consumer Markets business up 3 % in H1
The Zeiss Group has announced an 18 percent year-on-year revenue increase to €4,836 million for the first half of its fiscal year, with all business units growing. The topline increase was largely driven by the group’s semiconductor business where sales jumped by 41 percent versus H1 2021-22. Revenue from the ...
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ArticleThe second demise of Google Glass
Google ended sales of Google Glass on March 15 and will be “supporting” Glass Enterprise Edition until Sept. 15,” after which the surviving pairs of connected glasses will be on their own. If they break, they break. By autumn, then, Glass as a product will have died its second death. ...
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ArticleZEISS to accelerate in AR/VR glasses as tooz’ sole owner
ZEISS has announced its full acquisition of tooz technologies, the joint venture that it launched in 2018 together with Deutsche Telekom in order to develop augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) glasses. By buying the 50 percent share of its telecom partner, ZEISS becomes tooz’ sole owner and the ...
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ArticleZeiss Vision Care up double digits in 2021/22
Zeiss Vision Care, the main business unit within the Consumer Markets segment of the ZEISS Group, has reported a double-digit increase in revenue at constant exchange rates for its 2021/22 fiscal year, ended Sept. 30, compared to the previous year, with market share gains in all regions. The company does ...
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ArticleMaterialise sees its eyewear volumes triple within 5 years
Created in 2014, the eyewear division of Materialise, the Belgian-based 3D printing specialist, has introduced several innovations for 3D-printed glasses and has established itself as the market leader in the field. Ahead of the Silmo trade show, we sat down with Alireza Parandian, the unit’s manager, to reflect on the ...
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ArticleZEISS invests in liquid crystal tech eyewear start-up
ZEISS Ventures, an entity of the ZEISS Group, has announced that it was the main investor in a new financing round of over €10 million in Morrow Eyewear, a Belgian-based start-up company specializing in autofocal glasses. Other investors included New Science Ventures as well as current shareholders such as imec.xpand, ...
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ArticleConsumer markets up by 9% in H1 at ZEISS
The ZEISS Group has reported a 13 percent year-on-year increase to €770 million in Consumer Markets revenue for the first half of its 2021/22 fiscal year. In constant currencies, sales grew by 9 percent compared to H1 in the previous year. The German-based group does not disclose specific figures for ...
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ArticleZEISS reports record revenues in anniversary year
ZEISS has reported record revenues of €7,529 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2021, with double-digit growths in all segments. The group topline grew by 19.6 percent as compared with the previous year, and by 17.1 percent versus the pre-Covid 2018/19 fiscal year. Over 90 percent of sales ...
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ArticleSpektrum to diversify after new financing round
Spektrum, the Swedish-based brand of ski goggles and sunglasses, has raised 18 million Swedish crowns (€1.7m-$2.0m) from new partners in order to finance its future international development and the diversification of its product portfolio in the safety equipment sector. Spektrum was founded in 2012 by a group of skiers and ...
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ZEISS celebrates 175th anniversary
ZEISS celebrated its 175th anniversary on Nov. 16 with a virtual event held at the Volkhaus in Jena, the German company’s founding city. During the event, Dr. Karl Lamprecht, president and CEO of the group, celebrated the company’s past achievements and reaffirmed its commitment to building a bright future through ...
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Change at the helm of Carl Zeiss Meditec
ZEISS announced last week that Dr. Ludwin Monz, president and CEO of Carl Zeiss Meditec, has decided to step down from the executive board of the group’s ophthalmic devices and microsurgery subsidiary. Monz, whose term will end at the end of this year, has been at the helm of Carl ...
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Marchon and Zeiss announce license agreement
Marchon Eyewear and ZEISS Vision Care jointly announced yesterday that they have agreed on a multi-year and global licensing agreement for the development and the distribution of Zeiss-branded optical eyewear and sunglasses. The first eyewear collection under the new partnership will be launched internationally at the beginning of Spring 2022, ...
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ZEISS donates €5 million to Deutsches Museum
ZEISS , which is celebrating its 175 th anniversary this year, has donated €5 million to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. The donation is part of a larger €50 million founding program aimed at modernizing the museum, with which ZEISS has been partnering for more than 100 ...
