LINOS AG is a manufacturer of sophisticated optical systems that operates all over the world. In line with the corporate principle “Photonics for Innovation“, LINOS is a development partner and supplier for customers in such growth markets as lasers, optical metrology, medicine, biotechnology and semiconductors.

The company was established in a management buy-out in 1996, has acquired and integrated various photonics companies – most recently Rodenstock Präzisionstechnik in Munich – since then and is listed in the Prime Standard index at Frankfurt Stock Ex-change.

LINOS AG focusses on the three strategic business divisions In-formation Technology & Communications, Health Care & Life Sciences and Industrial Manufacturing. Almost 800 highly quali-fied staff are employed in the Group, which has three production locations in Germany as well as a plant in Poland. LINOS has sales companies of its own in the USA, Great Britain and France, which are important export countries.