As part of a global organization ZEISS has been represented for the past 75 years on the African continent with a wholy owned subsidiary grounded in South Africa we partner with local distributors in countries to bring ZEISS technology and solutions to our African customers ZEISS has been contributing to technological progress for more than 160 years with solutions for the semiconductor automotive and mechanical engineering industries biomedical research and medical technology as well as eyeglass lenses camera and cine lenses binoculars and planetariums ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with about 40 production sites over 50 sales and service locations and approximately 20 research and development centers Carl Zeiss AG is fully owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung