Polytec celebrates the 100th birthday of the company founder

Throughout his life, Heinz G. Lossau not only made a name for himself as an agile and courageous entrepreneur and company founder, but also as a pioneer of laser measurement technology. As a young physicist he gets to know the new laser technology in the USA and he is immediately fascinated.

He recognizes its potential for research and industry and sets himself a major goal: to bring laser technology to Germany, to make it known there and to develop it further. In 1967, together with his wife Liselotte Lossau, he founded the Polytec company for analysis, measurement and control technology in Grünwettersbach near Karlsruhe, which in the early days quickly made a name for itself among the physical and chemical faculties of universities and among research managers in industry.

The development of laser measurement technology

While they were selling the first lasers from the USA in Germany, Polytec began developing and producing its own laser measurement technology in 1971, initially the first FIR spectrometer. With his decision, Heinz G. Lossau hit the nerve and the needs of his time. For many years, the FIR 30 was the only FIR spectrometer on the world market. It was a success and soon Polytec was delivering devices to all continents.

In the decades that followed, numerous other in-house developments followed and Heinz G. Lossau built up the areas of length and speed measurement in production plants with Polytec, NIR spectroscopy for process analysis, industrial image processing and optical systems as a commercial agency and industrial adhesives with the subsidiary PT .