Schott Produces 250 Millionth Tv Glass Component

On September 25, Schott, one of Europe's largest manufacturers of screens and funnels for cathode ray tubes, celebrated a very special event in its manufacturing history. The 250 millionth piece of television glass came off the production line at its main plant in Mainz: it was a large format, fully flat screen measuring 76cm across the diagonal. Schott's TV glass success story started in 1936. At the Olympic Games in Berlin, receivers set up the television booths for direct transmissions from the games were equipped with mouth blown glass components supplied by the company which was still based in Jena at that time. In this way Schott has ensured itself a firm place in the development story of the medium from the very beginning.