Fibre Photonics Selects Premises in Germany

Fibre Photonics Ltd (UK), a specialist manufacturer of mid infrared fibre optic cables and immersion probes for analytical spectroscopy has opened a sales, engineering and applications facility in Germany’s largest technology park at Adlershof: City of Science, Technology and Media in Berlin.

“The Adlershof region of Berlin will provide Fibre Photonics with excellent expansion opportunities” stated Gary Colquhoun, CEO of Fibre Photonics. “It is among the most successful high technology centres in the world where research, innovation, and production activity encompasses our core technology of Photonics & Optics and our key application areas in Chemicals, Clean-tech, Bio-tech and the Life Sciences. With a highly skilled local workforce of over 12,000 and the proximity to the future Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the expansion is designed to meet the needs of our future growth and strengthen our customer engagement throughout Europe.” In terms of Life Science activity, the region consists of an interconnected network of scientific, commercial and clinical establishments of more than 100 non-academic research establishments, around 330 companies from the sectors of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology, and the largest university clinical centre in Europe, the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Whilst retaining their head office and production facility in the central belt of Scotland, Fibre Photonics Berlin is seen as a vital strategic development o sustain the recent growth of the company.