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2026

27 March

ReleaseVertical Aerospace selects Isoclima as strategic transparency partner for Valo

2025

10 July

ReleaseGKN Aerospace secures multi-year follow-on contract with BAE Systems for Typhoon transparencies

23 January

CPI Aero secures $4.3 million for Black Hawk gunner windows

The company's multiple new contracts, which strengthen its support for Sikorsky's fleet operations, are set to span five years.

2024

24 September

ReleaseLightPath Technologies secures $3.5 million follow-on order to supply infrared optics for F-35 combat aircraft -rogram

19 June

ReleaseLee Aerospace acquires Llamas Plastics, Inc.

5 February

Release35 years of FACC: Innovation in the aviation industry made in Austria

2023

7 September

ReleaseLilium and Saint-Gobain Aerospace team up on bespoke windows and windshields

2022

8 February

ReleaseGauzy raises $60m and acquires Vision Systems

3 February

ReleaseEmployment and investment initiative: FACC creates more than 200 new jobs and invests EUR 150 million

2021

11 October

ReleaseGentex expands aerospace offering with acquisition of new thin-glass laminating technology

2020

21 October

ReleaseCPI Aerostructures receives orders totaling $1.4M from Turkish Aerospace Industries

12 October

ReleaseAerion Supersonic selects PPG to support development of new AS2 Supersonic business jet

6 January

ReleaseAirbus now offering Gentex dimmable aircraft windows

2019

25 September

ReleaseVision Systems composite unit Fibertech takes off with Clean Sky 2

2 September

ReleaseRostec created a centre for the production of organic glass parts for glazing for Russian aviation

3 June

ReleaseFACC sets up a high-tech composite facility in Croatia

12 March

ReleaseVision Systems unveils new electronically dimmable windows and a breakthrough smart window

5 March

ReleaseAirbus and Swiss Rotor Solutions promoting use of Maximum Pilot View Kit on H125/AS350 helicopters

8 January

ReleaseBoeing's new 777X to offer Gentex dimmable windows

2018

8 August

ReleaseFACC to develop the future of inspection robots

19 July

ReleaseAVIC Cabin Systems strengthens FACC's interior division

15 July

ReleaseGKN Aerospace develops revolutionary hydrophobic coating for cockpit windows

13 July

ReleasePPG to supply windshields, cockpit side windows for Dassault Falcon 6X business jet

28 June

ReleasePPG begins preliminary windshield design for Antonov AN-132 aircraft

30 May

ReleaseQuest Aircraft unveils the Kodiak 100 Series II

23 March

ReleaseEvonik commissions stretching and polishing plant for PMMA aviation materials in large format

15 March

ReleaseVision Systems unveils a new smart window

2017

19 May

ReleasePPG, Vision Systems to develop aircraft window shading applications

20 April

ReleaseVision Systems exhibits second-generation Electronically Dimmable Window and latest smart interactive window

2016

17 October

ReleaseEvonik constructs production plant for stretched Acrylic sheets for the aviation industry

12 August

ReleaseNORDAM Transparency Division named as exclusive supplier of front, lower cockpit windows for Airbus Helicopters H160

11 July

ReleaseGKN Aerospace contracted by Spirit to supply Boeing 737 windows to 2025

11 July

ReleaseNORDAM Transparency Division named as Embraer exclusive supply partner for E2 jet family

11 July

ReleaseGKN Aerospace to design and deliver Dornier Seastar windscreen

18 January

ReleaseGKN Aerospace qualifies 10 percent lighter windshield for Airbus single aisle aircraft

12 January

ReleaseVision Systems' famous Electronically Dimmable Windows and IFE system for the first time at Singapore Airshow

2015

11 November

ReleaseGKN Aerospace congratulates Mitsubishi on the first flight of the MRJ

28 October

ReleaseGKN completes acquisition of Fokker Technologies

21 September

ReleaseAviationGlass & Technology receives ISO 9001:2008 quality management system certification reinforcing its position as a certified global aviation industry supplier

28 July

ReleaseGKN agrees to acquire Fokker Technologies for Euro 706 million

27 July

ReleasePPG introduces qualified redesigned sliding cockpit windows for A320 family

30 June

ReleaseAviationGlass & Technology makes history with first ever aviation authority approval of lightweight glass products for aircraft interiors

17 June

ReleaseVision Systems jettisonable windows selected for H160 helicopter

16 June

ReleasePPG Aerospace delivers MRJ flight-deck windows to MITAC for flight tests

29 May

ReleaseGKN Aerospace celebrates the HondaJet world tour

28 April

ReleaseNew solar protection solutions and vip IFEC solution for business aviation

26 March

ReleasePPG Aerospace produces transparencies for the Sikorsky S-97 RAIDER™ helicopter

2014

9 December

ReleasePPG Aerospace to supply Gulfstream windows, assemblies for G500, G600 jets

19 November

ReleaseDevelopment of an integral wing box for aircraft rewarded with Austrian invention prize

22 October

ReleasePPG Aerospace supplying production and spare windows for Embraer KC-390