Dunbar Middle & Cyclops

Kim Mack • July 22, 2026

Flashback of Dunbar Middle School and Cyclops

Students from Dunbar Middle School bring manufacturing and workplace safety to life in this creative play featuring Cyclops Industries of West Virginia. Through a breaking-news-style scenario, student reporters explore how Cyclops manufactures safety sight glasses that allow workers to safely view the contents of highly pressurized and high-temperature containers.


The students also interview members of the Cyclops team to learn about the company’s West Virginia roots, the materials used in its manufacturing process, its impact across 39 countries, and career advice for young people interested in manufacturing. It’s a fun and educational look at the important role Cyclops plays in keeping workers and industries safe—because Cyclops is always keeping an eye out for us!

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WHO IS THIS SMALL BUSINESS IN WEST VIRGINIA SHIPPING TO 37 COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD. We are a designer and manufacturer of safety sight glasses, viewport assemblies, sight flow indicators, spray rings, sight lights and sight glass replacements for observing processes in industrial pressure vessels and pipelines. Cyclops sight glass provides maximum safety under high pressure, high temperature, corrosive and volatile processing operations. They can withstand a wide thermal shock range and are capable of resisting blow out or rupture. In most applications no packings, compression rings or screws are involved, eliminating costly continuous maintenance. With uncomplicated installation, safety sight glasses use only ASME approved materials and tolerances. During the late 40's, early 50's several localized plant explosions were experienced by a major chemical facility were directly attributed to the failure of conventional or sandwich type sight glasses. As a result, an engineer, my grandfather, Gene LeRoy was given the task of developing a sight glass that when broken, would maintain its integrity and not rupture or blow out, even while under extreme pressure at high temperature. After much trial and error, he hit upon the idea of peripherally sealing the lens assembly instead of vertically clamping and sealing the sight glass against the top and bottom lens gaskets. With a grateful heart, I became the President & Owner in 1999. I have certainly learned a lot along the way. Our company has relationships and customers all over the world. Thank you. Over the last 22 years, we have reinvented ourselves by reaching out to area professionals in business, manufacturing, marketing, branding, and networking. And I feel confident we have positioned our company for 2023 and beyond. Especially after our award-winning year in 2022. We have set our ‘sights’ high for this year. Thank you, Kim Mack, President 800-292-9011
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