Docter Optics

Docter Optics develops and manufactures customised optical components and systems from glass and polymer, including semi-finished glass products, moulded lenses, polymer optics and hybrid optomechanical assemblies. The company describes patented processes for glass moulding (DOC3D, DOCFast, DOCµTEC) and polymer multilayer lenses (DOCLight), and in-house glass melting for its DOCTAN automotive glass.

Customers are OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers in automotive lighting and LIDAR, medical technology, sensor technology, security and consumer electronics. The website describes services from optical design and prototyping through tooling, moulding and contract assembly to series production from one to about one million pieces, with the company supplying components and systems to customer specifications.

The Czech subsidiary Docter Optics s.r.o. is based in Česká Lípa and is part of a group headquartered in Neustadt an der Orla, Germany, with further sites in Triptis (Germany), Gilbert, Arizona (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (South Korea). The registry lists the Czech entity as founded in 1996. Current open positions include dual-study engineering and business programmes, apprenticeships such as precision optician, machine operator, mechatronics engineer and machining mechanic, warehouse and IT roles, and a quality assurance and measurement engineer in Triptis.

Product: Customised optical semi-finished products, glass and polymer optical components, and optomechanical optical systems produced in series.