MCM, a company in the VERRE INDUSTRIE group, acquired the airport lighting glass business from CORNING SAS on October 2nd 2023

On October 2nd, 2023, MCM, a subsidiary of Verre industrie, has acquired the beaconing activity of CORNING SAS.

The manufacturing and surface coating of glass moulded parts (prisms and lenses) had been taken over by CORNING in 2022. In the coming weeks, the needed equipment will be transferred to the MCM site, a few kilometres away from Jouarre, in a refurbished building.

Verre Industrie is specialised in glass for aircraft interior and exterior lighting, also in airfield lighting sector with other product categories. Thanks to its subsidiary MCM, Verre Industrie is widening its product offer in the aeronautic lighting market.

Installation of the first 8 Mat Perle luminaires

The first 8 renovated Mats Perle were installed on Place de Varsovie in Paris at the end of September 2023.

Verre Industrie cleaned, chemically strengthened and assembled these timelessly designed lenses.

A special project that demonstrates the variety of the company’s know-how.

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Crédit photo : M.Hervé Piraud

Go the XV of France

For the Rugby World Cup which is taking place in France this year, the French national team’s training center has been equipped with three large TFT screens to perfect the preparation of our players.

 Verre Industrie is proud to have delivered anti-reflective protective glasses for optimal vision quality.

 

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Save the date: INTER-AIRPORT

Verre Industrie and its associate partner MCM will be present at the INTER-AIRPORT trade show in Munich from October 10 to 13, 2023.

The alliance between Verre Industrie and MCM offers a wide range of possibilities for this sector: glass for access control systems, passenger information systems, check-in systems, lighting and beaconing systems for example.

 

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Gorilla® Glass available in France at Verre Industrie

Verre Industrie is one of the two European companies approved to process Gorilla Glass 3: cutting, machining, chemical strengthening, screen printing, bending, laminating and coating.

We have in stock the thicknesses 0.7, 1.1 and 1.5 mm and are able to deliver processed glasses.

We can supply other thicknesses upon request

 

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Development of the Polish rail market

Verre Industrie will be present at the TRAKO trade fair in Gdańsk from September 19 to 22, 2023.

To further support our sales efforts in this country, we have signed a distribution agreement with DACPOL, a company that already has a strong presence in the Polish rail market with numerous industrial products.

 

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Walk on clouds with the Fred & Fred lens

Recently installed over a large area in the town center of the seaside resort of Donville-les-Bains, the lens lighting gives the impression of walking on a cloud.

According to its creator Frédéric Gervais, “the advantage of the lens over a gobo is that there’s no obstacle to block the light, so the effects are much less geometric and more natural.

 

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