New laboratories and a drawing tower for sensor technology "made in Jena"

Sensor specialist FBGS celebrates the inauguration of the new company site on Jena21

The fiber optics company FBGS Technologies GmbH has moved into a new home. Since December 2023, Managing Director Dr. Eric Lindner and his 20-strong teamhave been based at the new site at Franz-Loewen-Straße 3 in the Jena21 industrial estate. The company has now officially celebrated its inauguration there. A milestone for FBGS, which previously used rented premises in Winzerlaer Straße.

The company now has sufficient space on site in the technology business park to develop and manufacture fiber sensors "made in Jena" in large quantities:

"With our new company headquarters with more than 2,000 square meters of space, we can scale up our production and are therefore ideally positioned for our future growth,"

says Managing Director Lindner. In detail, this includes new physical and chemical laboratories, state-of-the-art offices and meeting rooms as well as our own fiber drawing tower. Two further drawing towers are planned for the future.

FBGS was founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and manufactures fiber optic sensors and components that are used in industry, the energy sector, construction and medical technology, among others.

In the best neighborhood in the Jena21 Technology Park

The move itself was a major challenge. Sensitive laser and alignment systems had to be packed and unpacked, production lines in the clean room at the old and new locations had to be kept running or rebuilt and, of course, deliveries to customers worldwide had to be guaranteed at the same time. A mammoth task that required many dedicated and competent hands and minds. In the meantime, the employees - a team of people from a wide variety of nations - have settled in well at Franz-Loewen-Straße.

Dr. Lindner and his international team also have the best wishes of the city and the Jena Economic Development Corporation (JenaWirtschaft). Mayor Dr. Thomas Nitzsche congratulated the company on its successful start in Jena21:

"With its fiber optic technologies, FBGS is a true driver of innovation and one of the wonderful examples of how Jena science spin-offs become global high-tech leaders over the years and decades."

In this way, FBGS is promoting Jena as a business location in the long term. And according to JenaWirtschaft boss Wilfried Röpke, it is literally in the best of neighborhoods:

"At Jena21, you can find the right cooperation partners just around the corner. A space for highly innovative companies that create many modern jobs and carry Jena's good reputation out into the world - FBGS Technologies GmbH fits in perfectly here."

The concept that has been conceived since the development of the technology park 12 years ago has thus been a complete success.

Background: FBGS Technologies GmbH

FBGS was founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology. The high-tech company develops and produces fiber optic sensors, components and solutions that are manufactured according to individual customer requirements with specific properties for measuring temperature, shape, strain or force. These applications are used in the process industry, the energy sector, the construction industry and medical technology, among others. They enable advanced monitoring in harsh or demanding environments.