Precision Glass & Optics Announces Exclusive West Coast Distributorship Agreement with SCHOTT

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O® -www.pgo.com), global experts in optical manufacturing, glass fabrication, and precision thin film coatings, announces the exclusive West Coast distributorship agreement with SCHOTT North America, Inc. for their new SCHOTT SUPREMAX® 33 rolled sheet borosilicate glass. The new product has an identical composition as SCHOTT’s popular Borofloat® glass. The key advantages to the SUPREMAX 33 brand are that it is a rolled glass and it is offered in a wide variety of thicknesses (from 28.6 mm or 1 1/8 inches, up to 66.70 mm or 2 5/8 inches) for extensive applications.

PG&O’s manufacturing capabilities include customized glass fabrication and precision optical coating services on any thickness of the SCHOTT SUPREMAX 33. The physical and chemical properties of this revolutionary, rolled borosilicate glass include low thermal expansion, high thermal resistance, excellent light transmission, and superior chemical durability. The versatile, low-density glass is 12 percent lighter than soda lime glass, making this particularly useful for applications where weight is a critical factor. Made of non-hazardous raw materials, the SCHOTT SUPREMAX 33 can be recycled several times and easily disposed of properly.

Precision Glass & Optics has an extremely large inventory of glass products and fabrication services, including advanced optical coatings, manufacturing large mirror blanks, CNC machining, polishing, slicing, sawing, scribing, grinding, edging, assembly, and more. PG&O provides high performance optical components, thin film coatings, and turnkey solutions for extremely demanding tasks for digital cinema, imaging, biomedical, military, aerospace, astronomy, broadcast, solar applications, and more.

PRECISION GLASS & OPTICS – www.pgo.com – PG&O has delivered high quality, precision glass, optics, and optical coatings for a variety of applications for over 25 years. The company offers an extensive materials inventory plus a full optical fabrication shop, three large coating chambers, and an expert, in-house engineering staff, for added convenience. Our cost-effective and reliable optics and advanced thin film coatings are ideal for military, aerospace, biomedical, imaging, laser, digital cinema, solar markets, and more.

SCHOTT – (www.us.schott.com) is an international technology group with more than 125 years of experience in the areas of specialty glasses and materials and advanced technologies. SCHOTT ranks number one in the world with many of its products. Its core markets are the household appliance, solar power, pharmaceuticals, electronics, optics, transportation and architecture industries. The company is strongly committed to contributing to its customers’ success and making SCHOTT an important part of people’s lives with high-quality products and intelligent solutions. SCHOTT is committed to managing its business in a sustainable manner and supporting its employees, society and the environment. The SCHOTT Group maintains close proximity to its customers with manufacturing and sales units in all major markets. Its workforce of around 17,500 employees generated worldwide sales of $4 billion (approximately 2.9 billion euros) for the 2009/2010 fiscal year.

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O)
3600 West Moore Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Contact: Thad Sanchez, Director of Sales
Phone: 714-540-0126
Fax: 714-540-1482
Email: info@pgo.com
Web Site: www.pgo.com

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