Rofin-Sinar

Rofin -Sinar Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures and markets laser beam sources and laser-based solutions for industrial materials processing. The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange and in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

It counts with its CO2, solid-state, fiber, diode and various Q-switch lasers, the world's market and technology leaders in laser technology. With its sales and service network, the company is represented in 40 countries around the world.

Rofin lasers are used in the manufacture of various products such as the cutting of various thicknesses and materials, or in the production of high-tech devices such as mobile phones, plasma screens, computers, MP3 players, solar modules and pacemaker. Similarly, numerous medical products such as ampoules or disposable syringes in which precision is important in detail at high volume, made ​​with the help of lasers.

History

The company was founded in 1975 in Hamburg as SINAR Laser Systems Sales mbH. Sinar is Sanskrit for light beam, but the name was already in use by a Swiss company. With the acquisition of the British company rofin therefore, it changed its name in Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH to.

In the early 1980s began developing and producing its own laser in Hamburg. Followed in 1985 with a joint venture with Marubeni step to Japan. In 1987, Siemens Rofin-Sinar 100 percent. Siemens completed the acquisition in 1988 with the purchase of the industrial division of the American pioneer laser Spectra -Physics, when it was sold to Ciba- Geigy, and 1989 with the German Laser Optronic, which at that time produced laser marking technology.

As the first wholly-owned spin-off from Siemens, the company went public in 1996 on the American NASDAQ (symbol RSTI ). Since July 2001, the company is also listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) and was from March 2004 to March 2010, listed in the selection index Nasdaq.

In the years after the initial public offering, the strategy of growth by acquisition sat continuously advancing the technological and geographical expansion of markets. Under the umbrella of Rofin -Sinar group a variety of brands is united.

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