Advanced Glass Industries, a Rochester, N.Y., maker of optical glass blanks, was recently named the North American sales representative for the precision optics industry for GfE Coating Materials, of Nuremberg, Germany. Created in 1985 as an R&D activity within GfE Metalle & Materialien GmbH, GfE Coating Materials is a provider of metallic and ceramic materials for PVD coating processes used in the electronic, solar, optical, energy storage, web and other industries.