Saint-Gobain gets $20M military contract

Military personnel in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps in combat vehicles will be shielded with bulletproof windshields and doors made by the Milford, N.H. division of Saint-Gobain, a Paris-based company. Saint-Gobain Crystals was awarded a three-year, $20 million contract to supply the two branches of the military with sapphire engineered armor and tooling used to make bulletproof windshields and door windows for the military’s M142 Artillery Rocket Launcher and other military assets.