For over 30 years, Navitar Coating Labs (formerly GM Vacuum Coating) has been an industry leader in the optical thin films coating industry. It prides itself as being a "boutique" coating company that works to find the innovative and cost effective way to make our customers products perform better.

In 1998 GM Vacuum Coating Laboratory was acquired by Navitar and changed our name to Navitar Coating Labs, Inc. in October 2000.  Navitar is a leading optical manufacturer that sales to OEM customers and dealers world-wide.

Today's manufacturers are constantly striving to improve the performance of their products and differentiate themselves from their competition. Navitar Coating Labs can help your company gain that competitive edge by improving the output characteristics of your optical system.

Navitar Coating Labs produces vacuum deposited  and sputtered coatings for UV, visible and IR applications and offers an extensive line of stock and custom coating designs.  It produces a wide range of specialty type coated products including coatings for high intensity lamp reflectors, large contrast enhancement protected silver mirrors, and mini mirrors for use in telecommunications. It also produces corrosion resistant gold coatings for use in fiber optics, telecommunications and military applications. In the UV industry, Navitar Coating Labs specialized mirrors and filters and are used to improve the brightness and output of existing UV optical systems.  Our solderable coatings which are produced using Navitar's sputtered process allow glass to be soldered to metal for military, aerospace and other applications.  

Navitar Coating Labs has been a recognized leader in the field of Art Glass coatings.  It's Dichroic Art Glass is available in a wide range of colors, textures and reflective characteristics.

We are proud to be working with leading manufacturers to upgrade their existing products and would like the opportunity to offer our world leading coating technology to your company.

State-of-the-Art Coating Solutions
Navitar Coating Labs engineering and design staff can help you solve your most difficult thin film coating problems. They can provide a stock or custom coating solution  that allows you to get extra sharpness, contrast or light transmission as well as optimize your system by maximizing or minimizing a particular spectrum of light.  They are often asked to solve multiple demands such as reducing excessive heat in an optical system while at the same time increasing specific wavelength transmission characteristics.

A Wide Range of Coating Techniques
Navitar Coating Labs offers a wide range of coating techniques which allows it to choose the appropriate method to best meet your objectives.  Techniques include deposition by Ion aided electron beam, thermal, and sputtering technology.

Capability to Produce Large and Small Parts
The Company has state of the art coating chambers up to 72" in diameter and can handle large substrates up to 40" in diameter. 

State-of-the-Art Products
Navitar Coating Labs' range of specialty coatings includes solderable metal coatings (which are applied to glass, infrared materials, and ceramics), gold coatings, antireflection, contrast enhancement protected silver and high temperature coatings.  It offers bandpass filters, beam splitters, hot mirrors, cold mirrors, and coatings for high intensity lamp reflectors.  It is especially proud of its technology in the field of dichroic art glass.

Dichroic Art Glass
Navitar Coating Labs continues to be a recognized leader in the field of art glass coatings.  It's dichroic art glass is available in a  wide range of colors, textures and reflective characteristics.  It offers a wonderful alternative to stained glass.  Applications include lighting, jewelry, church windows, and decorative home items such as vases, paper weights, wall tiles, blocks and sinks.

Custom Coating Capabilities
Navitar Coating Labs specializes in developing innovative custom solutions to meet the changing needs of its customers. Customers are facing a world of increasing competition and decreasing product life cycles.  Let Navitar Coating Labs develop an innovative and cost effective solution to your problem that pushes the envelope in terms of performance while at the same time exceeding your price requirements. 

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