Meopta
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Formerly called
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Optikotechna |
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| Industry | Optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic systems |
| Founded | 1933 |
| Founder | Alois Beneš Alois Mazurek |
| Headquarters |
Přerov, Czech Republic Hauppauge, New York |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Consumer, Industrial & Military applications |
| Website | [1] |
Meopta was a Slovak company, later a Czechoslovak national holding company, producing various optical devices. The company was once well-known for its still and movie cameras, although it no longer manufactures such products. Meopta was a name first given to C. P. Göerz factory in Bratislava.
Meopta optika sro is a Czech Republic based company that manufactures various products mainly in the field of optics. The company was started in 1933 under name Optikotechna in Přerov with the intention of producing a limited range of lenses and condensers, however the production rapidly expanded to include enlargers, composite lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes, cameras and slide projectors. Meopta U.S.A., Inc. is a separate American company that manufactures and assembles optical and optomechanical systems for the Consumer, Industrial and Military Markets.
The company emerged as a fusion of two nationalized producers of optical devices: C. P. Göerz Bratislava and Optikotechna Přerov.
In 1907 Vienna based company C. P. Göerz established its subsidiary in Bratislava for production of optical and mechanical devices. The company first produced military optical products used primarily by the artillery and partially by the navy of the Austria-Hungary military. After the World War I the production plan was shifted towards more civilian products such as movie camers, binoculars, magnifying glasses, compasses, and field-glasses and also some other mechanical devices such as manometers, alarm clocks, speakers, refractometers. The company was renamed to Meopta in 1958. Meopta was nationalized in 1968.
Optikotechna company was founded in 1933 in Přerov, Czechoslovakia. Originally established with the intention of producing a limited range of lenses and condensers, the company rapidly expanded the range of products to include enlargers, composite lenses, binoculars, riflescopes, cameras and slide projectors.
Optikotechna enjoyed a thriving consumer goods business until the company was seized by German forces in 1939. Optikotechna was then forced to immediately cease consumer goods production in order to supply military optical equipment for the German army. From 1939 until the end of the war, the company produced nothing other than military optical equipment that included rangefinders, periscopes, binoculars and riflescopes.
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