About Speedglas
The Speedglas™ welding lens was the first commercially viable auto-darkening welding lens ever; and with its exclusive technology has been the standard of comparison for auto-darkening welding lenses ever since. Still ahead of its time more than 30 years since the first prototype, Speedglas’s revolutionary technology continues to make the Speedglas brand the safest and most reliable of all auto-darkening lenses available. Speedglas remains the world’s leading brand of personal protective equipment for welders.
Design Awards
Characteristics like outstanding user comfort, the simplest possible operation and maintenance, unprecedented ergonomics and optimum safety have brought us many design awards
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Global Customers
Through the years more than 2,000,000 Speedglas welding shields have been sold worldwide. Speedglas auto-darkening welding helmets and Adflo powered air respiratory systems can now be found in virtually every industry (see global customers below).
“3M™ Speedglas™ – Trusted by the Best”
| USA | |||
| Boeing | Chrysler Corporation | Caterpillar | Carrier Air Conditioning |
| Exxon | Ford | General Motors | Honda Motors |
| Jeep | John Deer Co | Sunbeam | Shelby America Inc |
| Union Carbide | US Air | Westinghouse | |
| UK | |||
| Aston Martin | British Airways | BP | Ford |
| General Electric | British Naval Dockyards | RAF | Rolls Royce |
| Germany | |||
| BMW AG | Ford AG | Liebherr AG | Man-Gutehoffnungshutte |
| Mercedes Benz AG | British Naval Dockyards | Robert Bosch AG | Siemens AG |
| Thyssen | Zeppelin Metallwerke AG | ||
| France | |||
| Alsthom | Caterpillar | Fenwick | French Army |
| Peugeot SA | Renault SA | ||
| Netherlands | |||
| Hoechst | KLM | ||
| Norway | |||
| Kvaerner Kleven A/S | Norway Railways | Olivin A/S | Sovik Mek |
| Sweden | |||
| ABB Components | ABB Generators | SAAB | Siemens Elema |
| Volvo | |||






