New Center for Optics Production in Aachen

New Center for Optics Production in Aachen

With a competence center in Aachen, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology networks companies and research into a new photonics location. In the ‘Aachen Center for Optics Production’ (ACOP), the researchers are pooling their expertise with the regional optical industry.

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Eleven companies have agreed to support the center in its work. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is supporting the cooperation with an amount of €2.8million over an initial period of three years.