29 April 1999: Sovis North America, a division of French glass giant Saint-Gobain, has begun full-scale production at its new manufacturing facility in Madison, Georgia (approximately 50 miles east of…
29 April 1999: Sovis North America, a division of French glass giant Saint-Gobain, has begun full-scale production at its new manufacturing facility in Madison, Georgia (approximately 50 miles east of Atlanta). The new 55,000-square-foot facility is located on a 16-acre tract and produces tempered, bent glass for commercial refrigeration display cases for customers throughout North America. Construction of the new plant began last year. Over the next few months, Sovis also intends to produce flat and bent, tempered “Ultra-Vision(R)” anti-reflective glass at Madison. The new Madison plant, said Sovis, was built to enable Sovis to better serve its US commercial refrigeration customers. The Madison site, which employs twenty workers, is Sovis“ second in North America. In 1997, it acquired Hot Cell Services, a Kent, Washington, company which supplies optical glass and related services of refurbishment, maintenance and field service of radiation shield windows for the nuclear industry. Sovis also has manufacturing operations in Italy, France and Poland. Created in 1959, Sovis fabricates glass into products used worldwide in a variety of applications – primarily tempered, bent and flat glass for commercial refrigeration and food display cases, and tempered glass for household appliances (ovens and stove tops), as well as glass for commercial optics and nuclear applications. The company has been supplying the US market since 1983 from its European plants.