Swift Glass Company Inc

What Swift Glass Company Inc does

Swift Glass Company, Inc. is a precision glass fabrication manufacturer founded in 1881 (originally as Swift Lubricator Company) and headquartered in Elmira, New York, operating from a 75,000-square-foot ISO 9001:2015-certified and ITAR-registered facility. The company provides custom fabrication of glass components under contract to customer specifications, with capabilities spanning CNC diamond-tool machining, waterjet cutting, laser micromachining, diamond wire sawing, thermal tempering, chemical strengthening, ultrasonic machining, surface lapping and polishing, edge grinding, and glass wafer fabrication. It works with a broad materials portfolio including borosilicate glasses from SCHOTT and Corning, fused silica, quartz, Gorilla Glass, gauge glass, low-iron glass, and optical color filters, supported by an ISO Class 7 cleanroom, CMM inspection, and laser interferometry for verification.

The company sells exclusively through direct engagement (website quote requests, phone, email) on a quote-based pricing model, with production runs ranging from single-unit prototypes to volumes above 100,000 units, and serves customers across aerospace, optical, lighting, petrochemical, medical, military, MEMS/microfluidic, semiconductor, photonics, industrial, and education/research end markets. Named institutional customers include MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cornell, Mayo Clinic, NIST, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The firm is a third-generation, family-owned (Burke family) private corporation with no disclosed outside institutional ownership.

The business model is project-based B2B contract manufacturing: revenue is generated from one-off custom fabrication orders and material sales, priced per project rather than via published rates. Distribution is direct from the Elmira headquarters to a worldwide customer base, with no channel partners, distributors, or marketplace listings mentioned. The company has invested in content marketing (eBooks, technical guides, a Scratch/Dig Calculator tool) and maintains active social channels for top-of-funnel demand generation targeting design engineers and procurement teams in regulated industries.

Name

Swift Glass Company Inc

Legal name

Swift Glass Company, Inc.

Website

https://swiftglass.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1881

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Swift Glass Company, Inc. is a privately held, third-generation family-owned precision glass fabricator in Elmira, NY that provides custom cut, drilled, tempered, chemically strengthened, and polished glass components to aerospace, military, semiconductor, medical, optical, and research customers worldwide from a 75,000-square-foot ITAR-registered facility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Custom Glass Fabrication

NAICS

Glass Product Manufacturing Made of Purchased Glass (327215)

SIC

Glass Products, Made Of Purchased Glass (3231)

akta.pro primary industry

Glass Fabrication & Processing Services (Cutting/Edging/Drilling/Polishing) (IMADAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Tempered & Heat-Strengthened Safety Glass (IMADAHAD), Optics & Laser/Light Engine Components (Lenses, Galvos, Laser Modules, UV Engines) (IMAAAIAC)

Keywords

• Precision glass fabrication
• Custom glass cutting
• Glass wafer manufacturing
• Optical glass components
• Industrial glass machining

Headquarters

HQ city

Elmira

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Glass Fabrication Services: B2B custom fabrication of precision glass components to customer specifications. Services include cutting, drilling, machining, tempering, polishing, and surface treatment for various industrial applications.
2. Glass Material Supply: Supply of fabricated glass materials and blanks including borosilicate, fused silica, quartz, Gorilla Glass, and specialty optical glass.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Swift Glass Company Inc manufactures custom fabricated glass parts and components to customer specifications. The company provides precision glass fabrication services including cutting (waterjet, CNC, laser, diamond wire saw), drilling, edge grinding and polishing, thermal tempering, chemical strengthening, surface lapping, and glass wafer fabrication for aerospace, optical, lighting, medical, military, semiconductor, MEMS/microfluidic, petrochemical, and photonics industries.

Product overview

Swift Glass Company Inc is a precision glass fabrication company offering comprehensive manufacturing services under one roof. The company provides a unified portfolio of capabilities including cutting (waterjet, CNC, laser, diamond wire saw), drilling, edge grinding and polishing, thermal tempering, chemical strengthening, surface lapping, and glass wafer fabrication. They work with extensive glass materials including borosilicate, fused silica, quartz, Gorilla Glass, gauge glass, and optical filters from manufacturers like Corning, Schott, and GE. Additional offerings include inspection services, clean room facilities, and ultrasonic machining. The company also provides educational resources such as the Scratch/Dig Calculator tool and various eBooks on glass materials and optical properties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LimeX by Swift Glass: A proprietary lime glass product line offered by Swift Glass.

Products and services

• Glass Cutting Services Precision glass cutting using waterjet, CNC, diamond wire saw, and laser cutting for various glass materials including borosilicate, fused silica, quartz, and Gorilla Glass.
• Glass Drilling Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Production volume range from 1 unit (prototype) to 100,000+ units (high volume)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Abrisa Technologies: Custom fabricated glass and optics manufacturer offering CNC cutting, strengthening, coating, and optical finishing. Direct peer: competes in the same custom-cut, precision-fabrication space serving aerospace, medical, defense, and industrial customers.
• Rayotek Scientific: Precision glass and sapphire fabricator specializing in custom optical components, pressure vessels, and complex geometries. Comparable to Swift Glass in serving aerospace, defense, medical, and scientific OEMs with low-to-mid volume custom orders.
• Meller Optics: Manufacturer of custom optical components, lenses, prisms, and precision glass substrates from materials including fused silica and sapphire. Direct competitor in the precision optical fabrication segment Swift serves.
• Technical Glass Products: Fabricator of borosilicate, fused silica, and aluminosilicate glass components with cutting, drilling, tempering, and edge-finishing capabilities. Overlaps with Swift Glass in industrial sight glass, lighting, and scientific instrument customers.
• Hellma USA: Manufacturer of precision optical glass, calibration cells, and custom glass components for analytical and process instrumentation. Comparable in supplying optical-grade custom glass to scientific and medical OEMs.
• Inrad Optics: Custom manufacturer of precision optical components and assemblies including prisms, lenses, and crystal optics for laser, defense, and medical applications. Comparable niche optical fabricator serving similarly regulated end markets.
• Accu-Glass LLC: Precision glass and quartz fabricator offering custom cutting, lapping, polishing, and drilling for semiconductor, solar, and photonics customers. Comparable niche player in the same ultra-thin wafer and fused-silica segments.
• EVOQ Optics: Custom optical component manufacturer producing lenses, prisms, windows, and filters from glass and crystal materials. Comparable custom-optics fabricator serving photonics, medical, and defense markets.

Broad incumbents

• Corning Incorporated: Primary manufacturer of Gorilla Glass, Pyrex, EAGLE, HPFS, and Fusion5 raw glass materials — which Swift Glass fabricates into finished parts. A tier-1 incumbent supplying the inputs Swift depends on, with in-house finishing capabilities that occasionally overlap with custom fabrication work.
• SCHOTT AG: Primary manufacturer of BOROFLOAT, D263, B 270, N-BK7, and other specialty glass materials Swift Glass works with. Global glass-and-glass-ceramics incumbent whose authorized-fabricator network includes Swift; large enough to also offer finished components in some segments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/swiftglassco
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCYMev94dgQur4Ro8m1rXPCQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/SwiftGlassCompany
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/swift-glass-co-

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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