Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, you must have missed it, there was a whole thread about the developments in Wetzlar quite a while ago. Come to think of it, it was on LRFLEX not here. Cheers Douglas Here's what I wrote in early May of this year Information from the Giessen newspapers (15.02.07) Weller (precision engineering) has bought into Zeiss-Hensoldt in Wetzlar with ACM (Kaufmann) money. ACM (or perhaps Kaufmann in some other guise) is now responsible for coating technologies and prototype construction for Leica Microsystems CMS. ACM has a major sharehold in Via Optik, a leading producer of optical systems employing plastics and supplying the automotive industry with sensors. ACM also has a large share capital in S?? (coatings) and Sensitec (sensors) The city of Wetzlar now mentions a 110,000 square meter site in the industrial park at Spilburg close to the motorway exit Wetzlar South/ Whether this corresponds with the planning of a centre for optical, precision engineering and sensor technologies planned by ACM is not clear, neither is the identity of the three companies intending to relocate to this site. Report in March 2007 The planned optical industrial park in Wetzlar is taking shape. The Leitz Park GmbH (ltd) confirmed that they have now purchased the 13 hectare site (Schanzenfeld), close to Autobahn 45, from the city of Wetzlar. It is possible that, in the future, the three optical concerns Leica Camera AG, Via Optic GmbH and Uwe Weller Feinwerktechnik GmbH may move to the new site. The Salzburg based ACM holds shares in all three companies, ACM already announced in February that they intend to move Leica back to Wetzlar. A definitive announcement should have been made in March according to Austrian newspapers. ACM only confirms Weller and Via Optic as "candidates " for the new site HR-online (Hessen Radio) also mentions that ACM intends to build a Leica Museum on the site. Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > Notice I saw Wetzlar not Solms. Getting ahead of myself as usual. > > The 40-acre Leica Park in Wetzlar > > Not a topic on the LUG yet! > > AMAZING! > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >