A high-end manufacturing facility for semiconductor optics shall be expanded at Jenoptik’s manufacturing campus in Jena. The photonics group will make investments a sum within the low double-digit million euro vary beginning on the finish of 2025.
On the expanded manufacturing areas, Jenoptik will manufacture subtle, high-quality optical elements which can be primarily used within the semiconductor tools trade. As soon as preliminary planning can have been accomplished by the tip of 2025 and the next approvals and contracts been granted, the renovation of the at the moment vacant corridor is scheduled to start in summer time 2026. Manufacturing within the new manufacturing atmosphere is scheduled to start out within the second half of 2027.
Jenoptik president and CEO Dr Stefan Traeger reveals plans to Colette Boos-John, Thuringia’s Minister for Financial Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Areas,
Jenoptik president and CEO Dr Stefan Traeger and Colette Boos-John, Thuringia’s Minister for Financial Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Areas, introduced the deliberate funding on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, in Jena, Germany.
The great renovation is deliberate in two phases. First, an space of round 2,000 sqm shall be modularly expanded and modernized, additionally with regard to vitality effectivity, to accommodate the extra manufacturing capability. An extra growth in keeping with demand is feasible relying on medium-term progress, significantly with clients within the semiconductor tools trade, and taking into consideration the necessities for the worldwide alignment of producing capacities.
Along with investing a low double-digit million euro sum within the growth of house, investments in state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructure are deliberate, in addition to the creation of round 50 new jobs with begin of the manufacturing within the new atmosphere.
Sooner or later, the corridor will supply state-of-the-art house for the manufacturing of high-end optics, that are an integral part of high-performance photonic modules and techniques. Along with progress, the funding may even allow a fair stronger deal with trendy worth stream ideas. This may optimize materials flows in optics element manufacturing, make processes extra environment friendly and clear—whereas sustaining the very best high quality requirements.
Jenoptik had opened a brand new high-tech manufacturing facility in “Silicon Saxony” in Dresden in spring 2025 the place micro-optics and sensors for the semiconductor tools trade are being produced .
“With this funding in one in every of our core companies, we’re responding to the growing calls for of our clients within the progress space of semiconductor expertise,” says Traeger. “Moreover, the funding is a dedication to our important location in Jena, the place we’re a part of a novel ecosystem within the photonics trade wherein enterprise, analysis institutes, and universities collaborate and vital buildings for suppliers, coaching, and certified specialists can be found.”
“The optics trade stays a progress sector for Thuringia,” mentioned Minister of Financial Affairs Boos-John. “In view of the present financial sideways motion in Germany, it’s a robust sign that Jenoptik is now additionally investing at its Thuringian headquarters. This demonstrates basic confidence within the location, which we should justify on the federal and state degree by additional enhancing the financial framework circumstances.” The state will proceed to intently monitor and assist the optimistic improvement of one in every of its “flagship firms,” mentioned the minister.
