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Multiópticas enters the audiology sector
Look Vision reports that Multiópticas has launched a brand of hearing aids, called Multisound, that will be exclusive to Spanish company’s audiology chain, Centros Auditivos Multiópticas. As CEO Carlos Crespo explained: “The acoustic contamination to which we are subject every day will in the future make audiology one of the ...
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Mitsui launches plant-derived 1.60 index lens material
Mitsui Chemicals is launching MR-160DG, a new plant-derived high index lens material that will complement its Do Green series. The new material has received the Biomass Mark certification of the Japan Organics Recycling Association, making it the first biomass-certified optical lens material with a refractive index of 1.60, the company ...
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Satisloh introduces lamination system for small labs
Satisloh says that its new method of film lamination can provide in-house coating at one-third the investment and ten times the speed of traditional hard & AR coating, with all equipment contained within five square meters of space and less water and energy consumed. The system, called Film Lamination Technology, ...
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News briefsMaterialise and Odette 3D print eco-friendly eyewear
The Belgian eyewear brand Odette Lunettes is releasing a collection in partnership with Materialise, a 3D-printing company, also headquartered in Belgium. Former professional cyclist Tom Boonen also collaborated to the project. Source: Materialise For this collection, Materialise has begun to use a raw material called Polyamide ...
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Sunglasses by CFDA members to benefit LGBT center in L.A.
To celebrate Pride Month, in June, three Los Angeles members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) are collaborating on a limited edition of sunglasses, part of whose revenues will go towards the non-profit Los Angeles LGBT Center, especially its services for the elderly. Barton Perreira is contributing ...
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Luxexcel partners with a reflective waveguide tech company
Luxexcel, the pioneering company specializing in the 3D-printing of prescription lenses, has announced a new partnership with Lumus, an Israel-based optics company producing AR transparent displays. Both partners have co-developed a prototype of a prescription lens that embeds a reflective waveguide and a projector and delivers high-quality images as the ...
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Ray-Ban Stories released in parts of Europe
Ray-Ban and Meta, the former Facebook, launched Ray-Ban Stories in Spain, in Austria, in Belgium and online on March 17. France will be next, on April 14. New frame and lens colors and software features are due in the coming weeks, and the country count should soon thereafter reach ten. ...
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Julbo to produce Olympic sunglasses
Julbo will be producing two sunglass collections under license from the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Paris 2024 line, with gold lenses, consists of 12 models subdivided under the names Fury, Renegade and Renegade M, Meta, and Cruiser and Fury S. The Equipe de France line, with Spectron ...
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Marchon and Calvin Klein celebrate 30 years with a capsule
Marchon Eyewear and Calvin Klein are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their licensing deal with a capsule collection and dedicated marketing campaign. Consisting of five eyeglass and four sunglass models, the capsule will pay homage to the original collection’s spare and modern aesthetic. All models will be unisex, made of ...
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Millmead partners with designer Yair Neuman
Jai Kudo Lenses, one of Millmead Optical Group’s brands, has embarked on a partnership with Yair Neuman, a Dutch eyewear designer in London whom we profiled last year. Neuman holds the patent on a material called Delerex, made entirely from discarded demo lenses fused together in a series of press ...
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MPO launches new range of blue-light filtering lenses
The Austrian brand MPO has expanded its offering of specialized “4” glasses’ ranges – 4Gaming, 4Driving, 4Sports, 4All – with a new category: 4Digital. The idea here is, of course, to deal with the visual hazards of habitual screen use, with its characteristic focal distances and blue-light exposure. By MPO’s ...
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Carrera secures licensing deal with Ducati
Carrera has signed a four-year partnership with Ducati Corse, the motorcycle make’s racing team. As of this year, the Safilo-owned brand’s logo will be appearing on the team’s bikes. The deal includes in addition a licensing deal for a line of dual-brand sunglasses and optical frames for motorcycling. Especially in ...
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Indo Optical releases software suite for myopia treatment
Indo Optical of Barcelona is rounding out its offer in the treatment of childhood myopia with a software suite called IndoMedcare Miopía. The suite goes hand in hand with Indo’s Superkid Miofocal lenses for children, which purport to both correct myopia and slow its progress – by 40 percent, according ...
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Essilux establishes management services organization in U.S.
According to Vision Monday, EssilorLuxottica North America has established a management services organization (MSO) – known at least within the company as TeamVision – to invest in private practices in the U.S. and take charge of their non-medical affairs, such as product, inventory, staffing and marketing. According to the Essilux ...
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Essilor to distribute Stellest lenses and myopia tools in Canada
Essilor is expanding its distribution of Stellest lenses in Canada and launching an accompanying suite of tools to help eyecare professionals manage myopia treatment, especially in children. Canada is the first North American country to receive the suite, according to the president of Essilor Canada, Christophe Perreault. Essilor’s Stellest lenses ...
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Maui Jim introduces lens for screen users
Maui Jim has released a lens designed to reduce eye strain for habitual users of digital screens, who are “constantly focusing and refocusing while shifting between various near objects.” The MauiPassport Boost comes in two flavors, both for single-vision wearers: the +0.50D Boost Zone, for mild to moderate eye fatigue, ...
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Five brands to use Kering’s Blue & Beyond lenses
Kering Eyewear’s Blue & Beyond initiative, launched in May 2021, has expanded from three brands, Gucci, Saint Laurent and Montblanc, to five with the addition of Chloé and dunhill. Blue & Beyond combines blue-light-filtering with photochromism, to protect the wearer at once from the high-frequency light of screens and from ...
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ArticleJINS tests violet light for myopia management project
JINS, the Tokyo-based optical retail group, is about to launch the second stage of its clinical research on the suppression of myopia progression, in partnership with Tsubota Laboratory, a startup from Keio University, one of the top universities in the country. The project takes its roots in 2011 when JINS ...
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Christopher Cloos launches collection with ex-Victoria Secret model
According to Vision Monday, Christopher Cloos has a selected a former Victoria’s Secret model, Elsa Hosk, to be its first female global ambassador and to front its first eyewear line for women. The Cloos x Elsa collection has an old-Hollywood aesthetic, and its frames are biodegradable. The brand’s other ambassador, ...
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U.S. insurer offering discounts on blue-light filters
Whereas eyewear brands are producing lenses to block blue light for the receptors, our eyes, at least one major medical insurer has begun incentivizing its policyholders to invest in filters to block blue light at the source, the screens of our digital devices. UnitedHealthcare in the U.S. is offering a ...
