Abrisa works with Corning on its line of Gorilla Glass for the domestic markets, but the company also does custom design of products and support, raw material distribution, glass fabrication, coatings, screen printing and optical assembly among other products and services. “Abrisa works with 700 different kinds of raw material,” and its job shop typically produces 50 to 500 units at a time.
“Glass,” noted Oostendorp, “can do everything you can imagine,” especially utilizing coating solutions devised in a laboratory setting using advanced instrumentation. Abrisa’s main market is for the military, but their customer base is also heavy on medical, display lighting, glass for solar panels that contain “efficiency boosters,” and imaging systems, among others.
Oostendorp said about 80 percent of its Santa Paula facility’s workforce live in the city. When hiring, “We look for a good attitude, we do a lot of training and take our employees from being apprentices to senior craftsmen.”
The company was founded in 1980 by Richard Selfridge, and was located in Ventura County “almost since the beginning.” Oostendorp said the plant was established in Santa Paula about 20 years ago. Jim Veler is the president/CEO of the privately held Abrisa Technologies.
