Information from the Giessen newspapers (15.02.07) Next non-rumour:=20 /Weller (precision engineering) has bought into Zeiss-Hensoldt in=20 Wetzlar with ACM (Kaufmann) money. ACM (or perhaps Kaufmann in some other guise) is now responsible for=20 coating technologies and prototype construction for Leica Microsystems CM= S. ACM has a major sharehold in Via Optik, a leading producer of optical=20 systems employing plastics and supplying the automotive industry with=20 sensors. ACM also has a large share capital in S=FC=DF (coatings) and Sensitec (se= nsors) The city of Wetzlar now mentions a 110,000 square meter site in the=20 industrial park at Spilburg close to the motorway exit Wetzlar South/ Whether this corresponds with the planning of a centre for optical,=20 precision engineering and sensor technologies planned by ACM is not=20 clear, neither is the identity of the three companies intending to=20 relocate to this site. /Gel=E4nde f=FCr Optik-Industriepark (HR -online report 28.03.2007) / / Der geplante Optik-Industriepark in Wetzlar nimmt Gestalt an. / /Die Leitz-Park GmbH habe jetzt das rund 13 Hektar gro=DFe Gel=E4nde an d= er=20 Autobahn 45 von der Stadt Wetzlar gekauft, teilte das Unternehmen am=20 Mittwoch mit. Auf dem Grundst=FCck k=F6nnten sich k=FCnftig die drei=20 Optik-Firmen Leica Camera AG, Via Optic GmbH und Uwe Weller=20 Feinwerktechnik GmbH niederlassen. / /An allen drei Unternehmen ist die Salzburger ACM Projektentwicklungs=20 GmbH beteiligt. ACM hatte bereits im Februar angek=FCndigt, den Standort = von Leica von Solms nach Wetzlar zur=FCckzuverlegen. / The planned optical industrial park in Wetzlar is taking shape. The Leitz Park GmbH (ltd) confirmed that they have now purchased the 13=20 hectare site (Schanzenfeld), close to Autobahn 45, from the city of=20 Wetzlar. It is possible that, in the future, the three optical concerns Leica=20 Camera AG, Via Optic GmbH and Uwe Weller Feinwerktechnik GmbH may move=20 to the new site. The Salzburg based ACM holds shares in all three companies, ACM already=20 announced in February that they intend to move Leica back to Wetzlar. A definitive announcement should have been made in March according to=20 Austrian newspapers. ACM only confirms Weller and Via Optic as=20 "candidates " for the new site HR-online (Hessen Radio) also mentions that ACM intends to build a Leica = Museum on the site. More when I find it. Douglas > =20 ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/