Schott Glass

Schott Glass AG is a manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass products, such as fiber-optics and components used in flat panel displays.

They are well known by the photographic community for manufacturing the glass components of Zeiss and Schneider Kreuznach lenses as well as B+W filters.

The company was founded in 1884 at Jena, Germany as the Glastechnische Laboratorium Schott & Genossen by Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Roderich Zeiss. The company later changed its name to Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen. After the Second World War, the company was forced to relocate to Mainz in West Germany as the Schott Glaswerke AG after the headquarters in Jena was taken over by the communist East German government and became the Jena Glaswerke VEB. After the German reunification, Schott Glaswerke AG acquired Jena Glaswerke VEB to become a single company again.