I’ve been a baseball fan most of my life. When I was young and became interested in baseball there were no major league baseball teams in the Los Angeles area. The neighborhood boys all had to pick a team to root for. Because Ted Williams was from California I chose the Boston Red Sox. I’ve […]
When The Gill Corporation moved to its current location in El Monte, there was an industrial company on the 20 acres on the north edge of the property. The building only occupied about 10 of the acres and the other 10 were adjacent to our property and were left fallow. During the mid-80’s it became […]
El Monte, California – November 7, 2023: The Gill Corporation-France (TGC-France) has been awarded a contract by SONACA to develop and produce machined honeycomb parts for flaps on the Airbus A321 and the contract extension to supply machined honeycomb parts for slats on the Airbus A320, A330NEO and A350 programs. The extension increases TGC-France’s market […]
In a previous article I described Air Canada’s flight 797 and the effect it had on our industry. With the mandating by the FAA of a new cargo liner with improved flame and toxicity values, The Gill Corporation (TGC) had to do some fast research. Phil Gill, my brother, ran our R&D department at the […]
Anglet, France – For several years now, The Gill Corporation-France (TGC-France) has collaborated with and supplied honeycomb to Vincent Poujardieu, a furniture and lighting designer. Vincent Poujardieu uses our honeycomb for his creations and in particular for lamps, floor lamps and chandeliers in several of his lighting collections. The NIDA collection is the result of […]
On 2 June 1983, Air Canada flight 797 left Dallas/Fort Worth airport bound for Toronto. As it approached Cincinnati, a fire was discovered in the rear lavatory and the plane made an emergency landing at Cincinnati’s Northern Kentucky International Airport. In the end, 23 people had died from smoke inhalation. Up to that time cargo […]
El Monte, California – USC Advanced Composites Design Lab, advised by Prof. Bo Jin (University of Southern California (USC)), Dr. Frank Nguyen and Christian Moreno (The Gill Corporation, (TGC)), won one 1st Place, two 2nd Place, and one 3rd Place awards at the 2023 SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering) International Composites […]
El Monte, California – The Gill Corporation (TGC) successfully implemented paperless Work Orders (WO) at its corporate headquarters (El Monte, CA). Thousands of multi-page production WOs are now completely digital. In addition to eliminating the traditional paper WOs, the digital solution allows production employees to simulate their annotations. Employees can stamp, initial, sign, date and […]
很久以前，當我擔任生產經理時，我們接到了來自位於南加州安大略機場的洛克希德飛機服務公司的電話。他們需要一些 AOG 貨運班輪。我不記得訂單上有多少張，但在那些日子裡任何訂單都是[...]
El Monte, California –The Gill Corporation (TGC) recently completed a project to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint and energy costs. TGC collaborated with SoCalGas, natural gas supplier and METRON, a French cleantech company specializing in improving energy efficiency, operating performance, and reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. METRON has created an innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) product […]
