Schott AG

Schott AG

Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Glass
Founded	1884, Jena, Germany
Headquarters	Mainz, Germany
Key people	Dr. Frank Heinricht (Chairman of the Management Board)
Services	Glass Manufacturing
Revenue	EUR 1.93 billion (2014/15)
Number of employees	15,000 in 35 countries, 5,200 of whom in Germany (2014/15)
Website	Schott AG Official Company Website

Schott AG is an international manufacturing group of glass and glass-ceramics. The company is headquartered in Mainz, Germany and employs approximately 15,000 people worldwide. All shares of Schott AG are solely held by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The company reported sales worth 1.93 billion Euros in its fiscal year 2014/2015.

In 1884, the glass chemist Otto Schott partnered with the congenial Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and his son Roderich Zeiss, founded the Glastechnisches Laboratorium Schott & Genossen, which would later become Jenaer Glaswerke Schott & Genossen and then Schott AG.

Erich Schott, the son of the company founder, took over the management of the plant in 1927. The company suffered a severe blow at the end of World War II, when American troops brought its management and select experts over to West Germany. After the main production plant in Jena was expropriated, Erich Schott opened a new plant in Mainz, the company's current headquarters, in 1952.

During Germany's division, there were two independent companies: the VEB Jenaer Glaswerk at the historic site, which would later be integrated into the combine VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, and the glassworks in Mainz that traded under the name Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen. After the close cooperation of the two glassworks in the first years following World War II had been cancelled by the GDR in 1953, a dispute arose over the use of company names and its logo, a square with a circle and the words Jena Glass with a superscript "er,". The two parties finally reached an agreement in 1981, which allowed the West German company to use the name "Schott" and the square with a circle, while the East German company was permitted to use the term "Jenaer Glass." After the fall of the inner German border in 1989, the company based in Mainz acquired the East German company in Jena.