ZEISS Group

Four segments that shape technological progress

Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology


A large proportion of all microchips around the globe are produced with optical technologies from ZEISS. As the technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly powerful, more energy-efficient and more economical microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of microelectronics.

Industrial Quality & Research


ZEISS ensures standards of quality wherever maximum precision is a must: with coordinate measuring machines, metrology software and microscope systems for science, research and material inspection. ZEISS plays its part in ensuring that even the tiniest structures and processes become visible.

Medical Technology


With its products and solutions for ophthalmology, neurosurgery, ENT surgery, dentistry and oncology, ZEISS helps drive progress in medicine and assists doctors all over the world in enhancing their patients' quality of life.

Consumer Markets


As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of eyeglass lenses, ZEISS stands for maximum visual comfort. The movie and camera lenses, binoculars, spotting scopes, planetariums and sighting systems for flight simulators from ZEISS offer their users outstanding optical quality and therefore unforgettable moments.


ZEISS – an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics

With its solutions, ZEISS constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress.

The ZEISS Group develops and distributes semiconductor manufacturing equipment, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, movie and camera lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. It emerged from a workshop for precision mechanics and optics which was established by company founder Carl Zeiss in the east German city of Jena in 1846. Today, Carl Zeiss is headquartered in Oberkochen in the southwest of Germany.