II-VI Incorporated


II-VI Incorporated, a global leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic components, is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, aerospace & defense, life sciences, semiconductor capital equipment, and consumer markets.

History

II-VI Incorporated is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. The Roman numerals “II-VI” refers to group II and group VI of the Periodic Table of Elements. By chemically combining elements from these groups, II-VI produced the infrared optical crystalline compounds: Cadmium Telluride, Zinc Selenide, Zinc Sulfide and Zinc Sulfide MultiSpectral. These compounds and others created from group II and group VI elements are commonly referred to as “II-VI Materials”.

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