Lubner on the Possibility of Plastic Glazing

When it comes to the possibility of plastic windshields, Belron chief executive officer Gary Lubner says the chances of them flooding the automotive replacement glass market soon are small.

"I'm simple on these things," he said. "If plastic windshields were invented tomorrow, and they put them into every vehicle tomorrow, by the time that filtered into the automotive replacement glass market, I'll be dead, so I don't need to worry about it.

"Work out the numbers-you know what the breakage rates are," he said. "It's not going to happen tomorrow and it's not going to happen to every single vehicle … "

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