English is not widely spoken in the C.R., and as Czech was not offered in my high school, Surujh proved useful. They moved to Prerov, he as one of two Meopta sales executives. A native New Yorker, he met his Czech wife when she visited there to train in Meopta’s U.S. During the ’70s and ’80s it focused on military glass, binoculars to periscopes.” In 1991 Meopta was bought by an American, Paul Rausnitz. According to Surujh Roopnarine, who hosted me at the factory, “until about 1970 it made a range of optical and mechanical items, including the only cinema projector in Europe. Mazurek, the company manufactured optics under a Communist regime from 1933 to 1990. Military contracts make up just under 10 percent of total sales - though I can’t say if the prisms for Abrams tanks and windshields for Boeing and Northrup-Grumman aircraft are so listed, or ranked as “industrial” products, which comprise half of Meopta’s output.įounded by a Dr. Binoculars generate less than 20 percent of this revenue while over half comes from sales of rifle scopes. Of its 45,000 residents, 2,500 work at Meopta whose factory commands an expansive campus on Prerov’s hem.ĭespite a growing product line for hunters, only a quarter of Meopta’s business has to do with sporting optics. Prerov is an industrial city, founded in the 18th century and now part of the Czech Republic.
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