The group's principal activities include developing and manufacturing abrasion resistant functional coatings for application to plastic, glass and metals. The group products include anti-fog, electro-static dissipative, formable, multi-purpose, primer-free, refractive index-matching, thermal cure, tintable and UV cure coatings. On September 8, 2004 the group was acquired by The Compass Group International LLC (The Compass Group). The group operates from North America, Europe and Asia.