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Safilo renews Special Olympics partnership
Safilo Group and Special Olympics, an association promoting the acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities through sport, have extended their already 22-year long partnership until 2027. The eyewear company is supplying prescription frames and sunglasses to Special Olympics athletes through the Special Olympics Lions Club International Foundation Opening Eyes program.
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Six CooperVision sites receive 'Zero Waste' certification
CooperVision has announced that six of its global manufacturing and distribution facilities – in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico; Alajuela, Costa Rica; Delta Park and Mount Park in the UK; and Scottsville and West Henrietta, N.Y., US – have earned Zero Waste Facility Program Certification from SGS Global Services, a Swiss-based ...
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Mondottica 2025 charity program to focus on vision care for the homeless
Mondottica Group has announced that it has chosen Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) as its official charity partner for this year. The eyewear group said that it would raise funds across its business and fashion brand partners throughout to support VHCP initiatives. Founded in 2003 by four optometrists, VHCP ...
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Modo children eye care support program has helped 2 million children
Modo Eyewear has announced that its “Buy a Frame – Help a Child See” program has reached 2 million children since launch in 2013. The initiative offers children vision screenings, optometrist exams, prescription glasses and corrective treatments at no cost. “Buy a Frame - Help a Child See” is run ...
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Will the French buy recycled glasses at their local post office?
Lunettes de Zac, a French startup specializing in the recycling of used glasses, is exploring an unusual partnership with La Poste, the French postal service. During the collaboration’s one-year trial phase, over a hundred post offices in France will display a collection box for visitors to drop their old pair ...
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News briefsEssilux to coordinate French research program in myopia
With several other entities, EssilorLuxottica has inaugurated a five-year research program in personalized optical myopia treatment, with the objective of diagnosing myopia in childhood and slowing its progress. Called Premyom, the program will make use of large-cohort studies, clinical trials, data analytics, digital modeling, biomechanical simulation of the myopic eye, ...
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ArticleFrench NPO takes deep dive in ophthalmic lenses and eyewear frames’ carbon emissions
French consumers purchased 32 million lenses and 16 million frames in 2023, for a total carbon footprint of 130 tkCO2e. The report looks at the share of various components (raw materials, energy, transport, packaging, etc.) in the mix.
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EssilorLuxottica receives SBTi validation of GHG emission reduction targets
EssilorLuxottica has announced that its near-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Base Targets Initiative (SBTI), an internal association that, by its own definition, enables companies and financial institutions worldwide to play their part in combating the climate crisis. EssilorLuxottica’s sustainability targets include ...
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Essilux partners with WHO on eyecare program
EssilorLuxottica has announced that its OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation has become a global collaborating partner of SPECS 2030, an eye care program by the World Health Organization (WH0). The SPECS initative focuses on five pillars: improving access to refractive services, building the capacity of eye care professionals, promoting eye health awareness, ...
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Article‘We try to be responsible’
Alessandra Girardi, head of sustainability and co-owner of Vanni, tells us about how the Italian SME’s sustainability approach is rooted in local production and supply chain, internal commitment and outside expertise, and LCA calculations.
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News briefsCanada to develop a national strategy for eyecare
Canada has passed Bill C-284, “an act to establish a national strategy for eye care.” This strategy, to be devised by the Ministry of Health, must “describe the various forms of eye disease.” It may do any of the following: lay out the needs of healthcare and other professionals with ...
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Visottica publishes first sustainability report
Eyewear parts manufacturer Visottica Group has announced the release of its first sustainability report which the company says is the first in the eyewear components sector to anticipate the European Union’s CSRD reporting requirements for large companies. The report concludes a two-year analysis of the company’s sustainability practices, conducted in ...
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News briefsVision Council, EyeMed promote eye health
The Vision Council Foundation and EyeMed Vision Care, an American company owned by EssilorLuxottica and dealing in managed vision benefits, are undertaking a joint publicity campaign around “overall eye health.” They will be publishing a series of “curated vision health and wellness articles” and “interactive vision guides” as well as ...
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Low vision/blindness tech company partners with Microsoft on AI training
Be My Eyes, a tech company connecting the blind and low-vision community with volunteers for smartphone-based live visual assistance, is partnering with Microsoft for the training of more inclusive AI models.
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New York-based Mount Sinai receives $5 m gift for ophthalmic AI research
The Icahn School of Medicine, an entity of the large New York-based Mount Sinai healthcare group, has announced that it has received a $5 million gift from the John and Darria Barry Foundation for its Center for Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Health. The center, which was ...
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Eco Eyewear wins trademark dispute
Modo Eyewear, owner of the Eco Eyewear brand, has announced that the European IP Office has upheld its objections and rejected the trademark application made by Eyespace Eyewear for the “Eco Conscious Optics” trademarking. The office considered that there was a likelihood of consumer confusion with the “ECO EARTH CONSCIOUS ...
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Marcolin joins the United Nations Global Compact
Marcolin has announced that is has joined the United Nations Global Compact, a program launched in 2000 by the international organization in order to mobilize companies to align their strategies and operations with its ten universal principles on human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption, and to promote actions aimed ...
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Vanni measures carbon footprint
The Italian eyewear company Vanni S.r.l. Società Benefit has measured the carbon footprint of its glasses through a life cycle assessment (LCA) carried out together with the Bicocca University of Milan and Liito, an Italian sustainability consultancy. According to the LCA, Vanni’s V1632 acetate glasses, which are considered to be ...
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EssilorLuxottica to build and manage own solar farm at Barberini's plant
EssilorLuxottica is converting almost 40 hectares of industrial land surrounding its Barberini plant, located near Pescara, Italy, into a large solar farm and natural food crops for its staff restaurants. The solar farm alone will cover a surface of 25 hectares and is the first large-scale ground-mounted photovolatic system built ...
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Bausch + Lomb’s US recycling programs gather momentum
Bausch + Lomb has annonced that it has collected 84 million units of contact lenses, lens care and eye care materials in the US through its ONE by ONE and Biotrue recycling programs since they were launched in 2016 and 2021, respectively. This corresponds to approximately 231 tons of waste ...
