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Contract Awarded for Coating Plant for ELT Primary Mirror Segments
18. juni 2018: The contract for the design, manufacture and installation of the coating plant for the primary mirror segments of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope has been awarded to Belgium-based AGC Glass Europe. The company will be responsible for the construction of the facilities at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile which will be used to coat the telescope’s individual primary mirror segments with a protected layer of highly reflective silver. The contract was signed by Patrick Van Bortel, Vice-President of Industrial Glass and New Businesses, AGC Glass Europe, and Xavier Barcons, Director General of ESO, at a ceremony held at ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany on 18 June 2018. A third signatory, Philippe Bastien, Regional President Building and Industrial Glass, AGC Glass Europe, was unable to attend the signature event and signed the contract beforehand. Christian Klima, the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Belgium in Bavaria and Quentin Derzelle, the Trade ...