Optics and optoelectronics developer Carl Zeiss GmbH has opened a new Microscopy Customer Center at its Oberkochen site. Justus Felix Wehmer (left), co-CEO of the Microscopy business group; professor Ralf B. Wehrspohn, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS, Halle); Michael Kaschke, president and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG; and Markus Weber, co-CEO of the Microscopy business group, opening the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe. Courtesy of Zeiss. On two floors covering a surface area of 1200 square meters, the microscopy technology portfolio is presented in a state-of-the-art environment. The Customer Center features a lab with a biosafety level 1 for work with living biological materials. Every year, hundreds of customers can test the extensive portfolio of microscope systems in demonstrations and familiarize themselves with their performance and operation in product training classes. "In the Zeiss Microscopy Customer Center Europe we provide a broad spectrum of microscopy methods under one roof," said Markus Weber, co-CEO of Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH. "Our customers can witness the excellence of our systems for themselves on site and experience the complete technology portfolio in one go." The Zeiss Microscopy Customer Center for Europe is the central hub for customers of the microscopy business group in Europe. To create this new combined facility, the Customer Center formerly sited in Munich was transferred to Oberkochen. "The site is particularly attractive because in Oberkochen, the headquarters of the Zeiss Group, customers can experience the other Zeiss business groups and visit the Zeiss Museum of Optics," said Justus Felix Wehmer, co-CEO of Zeiss Microscopy. The Zeiss Group develops, produces and distributes measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cinema lenses, binoculars and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.