For the third time in series LayTec was awarded with Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award for Germany and the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA Award. With a sales growth of 1062% in the period 2006-2010 LayTec achieved place 8 in Germany and place 144 among the fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa!

CEO, president and founder of LayTec, Dr. Thomas Zettler, explains the successful concept: „To receive this award three years in succession shows that we have successfully positioned LayTec in the market. We have created an organization which is able to adapt to the dynamic market requirements and to develop innovative products within a short time. LayTec did successfully overcome the challenges coming along with fast growth and we owe this to the engaged and unremitting commitment of our staff, their excellent knowledge and our close collaboration with our national and international partners!”

Founded in October 1999 as a spin-off of the Technical University Berlin, LayTec quickly became a market leader in com¬pound semiconductor process metrology, especially for LED, but also for laser and high power electronic production. Since 2009, LayTec‘s integrated metrology solutions are also applied in solar cell production as well as other large area deposition processes.

The implementation of LayTec metrology systems in production processes significantly shortens development cycles and enables an efficient quality control that helps to considerably reduce production and development costs. LayTec’s new developments are generated in close cooperation with our customers. Supported by a global distribution and service network, LayTec products are used worldwide in leading research institutions and industrial enterprises.

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About Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA
The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA is the region’s most objective industry-ranking standard to focus on the technology field and recognizes technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the past five years. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies – large, small, public and private – span a variety of industry sectors, and are leaders in hardware, software, tele¬com, semiconductors, internet, media, life sciences and emerging areas, such as clean technology. The programme is supported by the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 initiatives, which rank high growth technology companies by location or specifically defined geographic area and is run by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) global industry group. Co-sponsors include Taylor Wessing, a leading International law firm with a focus on the industries of tomorrow, and Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, a venture and growth capital investor which backs entrepreneur with aspiration for greatness in the IT and clean technology sectors across Europe.