Paul Harten becomes Managing Director of LIMO

Dr. Paul Harten, long-standing Prokurist (person vested with general commercial power of representation) and CMO at LIMO, has been named third Managing Director as of 1st October 2011. Since he joined LIMO in 2002 Paul Harten has left his own decisive mark on the company's external image with his personality and dedication. He will immediately provide Managing Directors Dr. Vitalij Lissotschenko (founder and owner) and Dr. Lutz Aschke with more support than he has previously been able to do as Prokurist. Years of day-to-day experience has shown that the three work well together at management level. Dr. Vitalij Lissotschenko, as the academic brain, is responsible for future technologies, Dr. Lutz Aschke oversees production, research and development and finances. Dr. Paul Harten's areas of responsibility so far have been - and will remain to be in future - marketing, sales, IT and project and quality management.

Founded in 1992 - 200 employees - 24 nations - more than 300 patents

At LIMOs headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, an international team of more than 200 engineers, physicists, technicians and many other specialized staff develops, manufactures & distributes micro optics, optical systems, diode lasers & laser systems. LIMO was founded near Paderborn in 1992, relocated to the “Technologiezentrum Dortmund” in 1995 and operates today from industrial park “Dortmund Wickede”, located in the direct neighborhood of the Dortmund airport. On 10,000 m² floor space, LIMO runs approximately 2000 m² of clean room and 800 m² of in-house metal machine shops. At present LIMO holds more than 300 patents.

We regard ourselves as strategic partner to leading companies using laser photons. Our mission is to make business partners in the materials processing & photonic industries more successful with our cutting edge technologies. We are world-market leader in diode laser optics and have been awarded for this technology with the “world’s first innovation award 2007”. (Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft 2007) A laser beam can be effectively shaped and directed by the use of this award-winning technique – therefore, it is possible to create, e.g., linear or rectangular beam shapes. The following industries benefit from our customized solutions: Microlithography, medical equipment, photonics (solid-state and fiber lasers), flat panel display- and photovoltaic production, automotive manufacturing and all other industries that use high power lasers.

LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH
Bookenburgweg 4-8
44319 Dortmund, Germany
Tel.: +49 - 231 - 22241 - 0
Fax: +49 - 231 - 22241 - 140
E-Mail: kontakt@limo.de
Web: www.limo.de
Kontakt PR & Marketing: Nicole Krebs, n.krebs@limo.de

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