Re: reichert and yung question

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:05:29 GMT

You are so wrong go to the zeiss web site and read their press releases.
They are now a "stock company and on a major aquisition and
rationalisation trail
and seem to have a limitless pot of money.
in the past few months they have aquired Lieca and already split off and
renamed the Lieca scanning electron microscope buisness Zeiss.. Latest
aquisiton is Bio rad.

"Gordon Couger" <gcouger@NOSPAMprovalue.net> wrote in message
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> Lucia has been buying everything in sight for years. They own the rights
to
> Leitz, AO Spenser, Reichart, Wild, and others and Zeiss did not pick up
one
> during the same period. Buying other companies does not fit Zeus's
business
> model. Do some research on how Zeiss operate and you will see what I mean.
> They are not a company that is looking for increasing business by
acquiring
> new plants and workers. Their mission is to Zeiss products, workers and
> customers only. Buying another company and exporting the jobs would not be
> done.
>
> Zeiss is a owned by a non profit foundation and run more like a socialist
> goverment would run an operation than a capitalist country would run one.
It
> is amazing that it as lasted for well over 100 yeas rebuilding after 2
world
> wars after being split in 3 pieces in the second world war by the west
> skimming the best educated people and best works and moving them to west
> Germany, The Russians taking the best of what was left and the modern
> equipment and relocating them to St. Petersburg where they still make the
> most cost effective microscopes on the market today. They are a bit out of
> date but research is picnicking up now that their salaries are being paid
> and they don't have to steal stock and hide it in their lunch boxes and
sell
> it on the black market to get money for food and rent. The workers left in
> east Germany took what equipment they had and dug out the material they
had
> hidden and bought begged and bartered for what they didn't have and were
> making microscope that rivaled the quality of the best scopes they ever
made
> shortly after they started. The scopes they made in the late forties and
> most of the 50's are as good as any Zeiss scopes ever ,made. Over the
years
> the communist system took its toll on Zeiss aus Jenna and thier quality
> declined but until the chaos that followed the fall of the USSR they made
> good sound scopes. that were good values for the price. During the chaos
> after the fall of the USSR they faired better than Lomo in keeping thier
> quality but avoid eastern Elopement scopes and other thing manufacture in
> those years. Counterfeiting, selling scopes that were built at home from
> parts taken from the plant with no quality control are far to common.
Unless
> you are willing to use the money to start a fire don't invest it in a
> microscope form that time and area with out extensive testing by some one
> qualified to tell you if it is a good scope. There are real bargings in
that
> group but many more chances to waste your money or a great deal of time
> bringing a scope up to good performance.
>
> Every opportunity to loose usefully is an opportunity to make a very good
> deal of money but the odds usually are against you as the risk increase.
> There is not a big market for east German scopes but you can buy the
> equivalent scope for 30 cent of the dollar or less that it would cost if
> came from the east German plant.
>
> Zeiss aus Jena is no more it has be absorbed into the western Zeiss plant
as
> if the time had never separated them so any Zeiss Jena scopes being sold
are
> old stock, used or counter fit.
> --
> Gordon
> Gordon Couger
>
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> "news.ntlworld.com" <wilf@ltic.moc> wrote in message news:Q%tEc.73$NX
>
> 4.30@newsfe1-win...
> > id heard that the microscope division of leica was bought by Zeiss and
> all
> > production was moving to far east so we can look forward to leica
> > microscopes disappearing now.
> > "Kevin Cunningham" <smskjc@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:pZMjc.13518$gH6.7639@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > >
> > > "Carlshead" <carlshead@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:RqEjc.32299$NR5.17508@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> > > >
> > > > "Kevin Cunningham" <smskjc@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:1qzjc.4917$g31.1007@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > > >
> > > > > "shahar" <nr_dawn@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
> > > > > news:c6m764$gpe$1@news2.netvision.net.il...
> > > > > > Greetings
> > > > > > we have a R&Y model MEF3
> > > > > > first i was wondering if any one knows if R&Y have a web site
(or
> > > which
> > > > > > company bought them in case they are out of buisness)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > id'e like to know if there's a way to assemble a c mount outlet
on
> > the
> > > > mic
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks
> > > > > > shahar
> > > > > >
> > > > > Reichert is owned by Leica which is owned by a French private
> holding
> > > > > company. In the near future they will probably get rid of all
their
> > > > > histology stuff. Right now they produce a lot of it at the old
> > Reichert
> > > > > plant, that plant doesn't make microscope any more. When I needed
a
> > > > c-mount
> > > > > for a Reichert MEf 3 I went to Diagnostics (www.diag.com). Their
> > > adapters
> > > > > are well made and actually work.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kevin Cunningham
> > > >
> > > > The Leica MEF4 is still manufactured at the "old" plant in Austria.
> And
> > > the
> > > > Diagnostic Instruments adapters work perfectly IF your MEF3/MEF4
have
> > > > already have a side dual reflex module. Send pictures to Diagnostic
> > > > Instruments of your scope to ensure compatibility.
> > > >
> > > > Where did you come up with the drivel, "Leica will probably get rid
of
> > all
> > > > their histology stuff" and "owned by a French holding company"? If
> you
> > > have
> > > > that kind of insider knowledge, you wouldn't be repairing
microscopes
> > for
> > > a
> > > > living.
> > > >
> > > > Carl
> > >
> > > Sir, This isn't insider information, it's what you are supposed to
> know.
> > > Leica probably will sell their histology division to Sakura in the
next
> > few
> > > months, the problem is their domination of the European market. Since
> Dr.
> > > Schmidt-Heine sold E. Leitz the successor owners have sold of most of
> Wild
> > > and have changed the Reichert plant. Most stereos are made in
Singapore
> > for
> > > instance.
> > >
> > > I do repair microscopes and do a very good job. If you instrument is
in
> > > need of repair please feel free to contact me.
> > >
> > > Kevin Cunningham
> > > SMS
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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