[4] In 1891, the Carl Zeiss Foundation, founded two years earlier by Ernst Abbe, became a partner in the glass laboratory.

Erich Schott founded new production areas for specialty glass components used in electrical engineering as well as heat resistant borosilicate glassware for household use.

[11] In the midst of Germany's political division after World War II, the Jena factory was expropriated and transformed into a Publicly Owned Enterprise (VEB) in 1948.

In 2008, Schott announced that it planned to produce crystalline photovoltaic cells and modules with a total of 450 MW annually.

[23] The sole owner of Schott AG is the Carl Zeiss Foundation, which holds all shares and is partly financed from the dividends.

In Europe, it operates production sites in six locations in Germany, as well as in the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey.

[25] In addition to its North American corporate office in Rye Brook, New York,[26] it has six US production sites in Duryea and Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Southbridge, Massachusetts; Louisville, Kentucky; Vincennes, Indiana; and Phoenix, Arizona.

[30] Schott produces products made of specialty glass, glass-ceramics, and polymers for industries such as home appliances, pharmaceuticals, electronics, semiconductors, optics, life sciences, automotive, aerospace and astronomy.

[31] In the consumer market, glass-ceramics from Schott are used in cooktops for electric, gas, and induction cooking under the brand name CERAN.

[32] In industry, its glass-ceramic Zerodur is used in microlithography and as mirror substrates for large optical telescopes[33] such as: Other applications include flat glass for home appliances,[36] components for consumer electronics[37] and semiconductor manufacturing.