Knowledge-driven Economy

Whether physical experiments with the strongest lasers in the world, the search for a second earth or other new findings. Sophisticated research requires high-tech glasses in order to be successful.

The future belongs to SmartLabs

Turning needs into reality. A custom-made laboratory so that you can concentrate on what’s important. SmartLabs with the glass-ceramic NEXTREMA®.

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Lots of warmth, less glare. One solution.

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NEXTREMA® – Developed for extreme conditions.

SCHOTT NEXTREMA® is a highly versatile glass-ceramic material platform that allows product designers, engineers and other developers to obtain exactly the right material to meet their project’s individual demands.

Giant leap for mankind

When 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, optical glasses from SCHOTT helped capture this event in impressive images.

Never fear! #WEGOTGLASS

No matter what is lurking around the corner, we have the right specialty glass for you. When life finds you in the most challenging of situations, our heroes come with skill and creativity.

Learning from the future

How companies are able to overcome economic and social upheaval to actively shape the future.

Welcome, new life

For astronomers, broadening horizons literally means reaching for the stars. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) with its spectacular telescopes helps make this happen while demonstrating the allure of what lies beyond the discoveries.

The mirror substrate for the M2 of the Extremely Large Telescope, will have an extreme curvature.

“Masterpiece” delivered

SCHOTT manufactured an extremely curved secondary mirror substrate made of ZERODUR® glass-ceramic in Mainz, Germany, for the ESO´s Extremely Large Telescope

Scientist Gerard Mourou, one of the three Nobel Prize laureates for Physic 2018, poses in hin Laboratory at the Ecole Polytevchnique in Palaiseau, near Paris, France, october2, 2018. Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland won 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for brakethroughs in the field of lasers used surgery as well as scientific study. Photo: REUTERS /Charles Platiau

Laser glasses to support scientific progress

The right chemistry

Acids and alkalis cause most substances to go up in smoke. But not specialty glass: Even after six hours in boiling hydrochloric acid, it is virtually undamaged. This makes it an indispensable material for chemical applications with highly reactive substances.

More about the Megatrends

Our world is more connected than ever before. All-new devices like wearables find their way into everyday life, while cars mutate into rolling computer systems. Whether as a cover for smartphone displays, substrate for 5G antenna technology, or even as a core element of unprecedented device designs: specialty glass is an essential component of the digital world. Not always visible, but always there.

Health is in the foreground for many people and it shapes the most diverse areas of life. The term stands for physical, mental and social well-being with a lifestyle of personal fulfilment and prevention. As life expectancy increases worldwide and the connection to the digital world continues, health-conscious consumers are making new demands.

The increasing population makes available space a limited good in growing global metropolitan regions. Whether usable living space for more and more people, stable mobile radio networks and frequency spaces for increasing networking, or usable street space for mobility solutions: Urbanization brings with it compellingly necessary changes that often only become possible with the help of specialty glass.

The 21st century is characterized by a growing need for new mobility concepts due to individualization, connectivity, urbanization and neo-ecology requirements. Technical innovations and changing needs are becoming the driving force. This trend is characterized by the acronym ACES: autonomous, connected, electrical and shared. We are experiencing an evolution: the beginning of a new, multimobile ecosystem.

Globalization, digitalization and climate change are profoundly changing our lives. For the future, therefore, sustainable development is one of the biggest challenges. Sustainability means that economic, ecological and social actions must always align with the guiding principle of responsibility - for the benefit of both the people and the environment, hence the entire planet Earth.

Change is afoot in the world’s energy industry. Alternative energy sources, soaring demand in emerging markets and a growing digitalization are just some of the elements disrupting the status quo. To keep the world’s lights on, humanity will need to find smart solutions to make energy supply cleaner, renewable and more efficient at the same time.