Zygo, a business unit of AMETEK, Inc., will be exhibiting at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K., July 22 through July 26 at booth #41314. The company will be showcasing its unparalleled credentials as an optical component manufacturer with decades of experience working on an array of aerospace applications.

For many years, the Farnborough International Airshow has been the cornerstone of the British aviation industry, bringing the global aerospace and defense communities together to pioneer change, and as such it provides an ideal location for Zygo to demonstrate its market-leading position as a globally respected optical component manufacture and assembly expert. Among many others, Zygo has worked with high profile programs including Voyager, Skylab, ISS Cupola windows, the Space Shuttle hatch window and the Hubble Telescope corrector lens.

Zygo is a one-stop-shop supplier of precision optical components for an array of aerospace and defense manufacturers across the world where precision is fundamental. The company combines best-in-class manufacturing processes with a pragmatic and transparent approach to customer partnerships, which ensures that throughout the development of a customer’s precision optical components, they can have absolute confidence that Zygo’s obsessive focus is always to achieve the demand for precise, cost-effective, timely and reliable products.

Zygo's optical components group has a global reputation for manufacturing meter-class plano optics and extreme ultraviolet mirrors, and its capabilities include freeform lenses and mirrors, high aspect ratios and lightweighted components, and processing of advanced materials such as silicon carbide (SiC), Cleartran, zinc selenide (ZnS), ULE and sapphire.

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