On January 18, 2019, POG Präzisionsoptik Gera completed the move to the new company headquarters in Löbichau on schedule. Since the end of November 2018, almost 200 moving trucks drove to the industrial park on the A4. Specialists from more than 20 companies from all over Germany and Switzerland were deployed for the dismantling and installation of the complex equipment and sensitive measurement technology. In the meantime, the re-commissioning of the production areas is running at full speed. The office floors have been working regularly again since January 2, 2019.
“We have invested a total of almost 11 million euros in the conversion, better infrastructure and new facilities, and are thus ideally positioned for the future,” says Jan Schubach, one of the company’s managing directors. “The move went smoothly. Everyone pitched in and in the end it went faster than expected.”
Significantly more space for production and development
In search of larger production areas and better connections, the company decided to purchase the former printing house in Löbichau in the spring of 2017 after 25 years in the Keplerstrasse industrial park. After a planning and conversion period of only 18 months in total, POG now has over 10,000 square meters of space and thus significantly more room for production, development, and sales. The space is needed to be able to realize the planned growth of the production of special optics for applications e.g. in measurement technology, the semiconductor industry or also for use in space.
Entire workforce remains on board
All 161 employees and the 18 trainees have moved to the new location and are pleased about better working conditions, larger offices and production areas as well as a company restaurant. The optics company continues to have close ties with the city of Gera, if only because a large proportion of the workforce lives in the city. School partnerships and supplier relationships in Gera will be continued. But contacts have also been established in the Schmölln, Altenburg and West Saxony regions, for example, to raise awareness of the company among potential trainees.