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News briefsLa/Es to use Eastman’s Acetate Renew
Laminati Estrusi Termoplastici (La/Es) announced on the opening day of the Silmo show in Paris that it would start offering Eastman’s Aceter Renew across all its acetate collections. Acetate Renew is an acetate flake made of 60 percent bio-based and 40 percent recycled material. The new material has been progressively ...
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New warehouse at Novacel HQ
Novacel has announced the completion of the building of a new 3,000 square-meter warehouse for its equipment division at its headquarters in the north of France. The company said that the investment was meant to support the growth of its instruments business that doubled in the last six years, as ...
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ArticleRussian contact lenses market in turmoil
Russia experiences a temporary shortage of Johnson & Johnson’s Acuvue contact lenses due to panic buying and logistics disruptions, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported, quoting optical retailers. The Russian retail chain Happy Look said that Acuvue accounted for 50 percent of the Russian contact lenses market, and from 70 to ...
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Sponsored articleYueheng and Wingram present sustainable solutions for eyewear
BioAcetate S70 is a biobased and biodegradable material that improves performance and the environment while leading lens manufacturer, Yueheng, offers a plethora of sustainable options for its customers.
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Little interest in origin of optical products in France, poll says
According to a recent poll by Acuité, about 25 percent of French opticians declared that their clients were regularly or almost always asking questions about the origin of the frames and lenses. In detail, 19 percent of surveyed opticians estimate that about half of their clients made such enquiries while, ...
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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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FGX to use Eastman’s recycled copolyester
FGX International – the Essilux-owned designer and marketer of nonprescription reading glasses, optical frames and sunglasses – has signed a procurement deal to use Eastman’s Tritan Renew copolyester throughout its product portfolio. The first frames to make the switch will be those under the Foster Grant brand. Half of the ...
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Menrad implements a B2B online platform
The eyewear manufacturer Menrad has opened its online service platform to all of its customers anywhere in the world. The platform enables opticians to purchase spare parts, frames or sunglasses; submit warranty claims (with the upload of up to five pictures); manage their account; view their order and invoice history ...
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390 brands and 1,500 buyers active on ShopVISION
The Vision Council and RX, formerly known as Reed Exhibitions, have announced a series of figures in relation with the performance of ShopVISION, their global digital sourcing platform kicked off in June last year in collaboration with Balluun, a supplier of B to B marketplace digital solutions. According to the ...
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Serengeti moves all its production to Italy
Serengeti, the high-end sunglasses’ brand of the Bollé group, has announced that it would move all its manufacturing base to Italy. While the company was already producing some of its collections in the country, it said it would transfer all of its lens and frame production to Italy from Spring ...
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Shipping giant sees tight market conditions until Q4
The world’s largest container shipping company Maersk expects tight market conditions in maritime transport to continue until the fourth quarter of 2021. When commenting on its trading performance, the company said that “the continued strong performance is mainly driven by the continuation of the exceptional market situation with surging demand ...
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Eastman to build world-scale polyester recycling plant
Eastman Chemical Company has announced that it will invest around $250 million over the next two years to build “one of the world’s largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities.” The plant will be located at Eastman’s site in Kingsport, Tennessee, where the company is headquartered. Through methanolysis, this facility will convert ...
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ArticleEU, UK extend Brexit trade talks in effort to avoid a “no deal”
The United Kingdom and the European Union had decided to wait until Sunday, Dec. 13 to find a compromise on a trade agreement that would go into effect on Jan. 1. But, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the negotiators will now continue to work into this ...
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The U.K. reaches trade accord with Vietnam, but deal with EU unlikely
The U.K. has finalized a free trade agreement with Vietnam, which is scheduled to become effective from Jan. 1. It is the third trade agreement reached with an Asian country, after those with Singapore and Japan. The U.K. has also reached a preliminary trade agreement with Canada. The U.K. is ...
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ArticleTechVision looks to expand one-stop components shop
TechVision, an Italian holding company owning companies producing metal components and providing surface finishing services for eyewear, aims to roughly triple its size in the next three to four years, as the eyewear sector recovers from the hit it has taken from the Covid-19 pandemic and management keeps an eye ...
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News briefsNew digital showcase for Taiwanese eyewear suppliers
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), a multi-sector national agency in charge of promoting Taiwanese companies internationally, has launched www.optical.taiwantrade.com, an online portal showcasing selected products by the country’s eyewear suppliers. Designed to look like the entrance of an actual trade show, the homepage guides the visitor to virtual ...
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French suppliers to keep normal services during the new lockdown
Faced with a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French government decided last week to implement another national lockdown as of Nov. 1 and for at least one month, closing all retail businesses considered as non-essential. As with the first lockdown in the spring, opticians are allowed to remain ...
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ArticleSynsam builds new plant as it moves production to Sweden
Synsam plans to move eyeglass production from Asia to Sweden next year. The project involves the construction from scratch of a new factory that the company claims will focus on sustainable production. The facility is scheduled to be completed in autumn of 2021 in the town of Ockelbo. With an ...
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ArticleSelfridges launches Project Earth
Selfridges has launched Project Earth, an initiative which explores “more sustainable ways to shop” by setting new sourcing standards and creating repair, resale and rental businesses. Under the scheme, the British department store pledges that by 2025 it will only stock products that respect its new sourcing standards on cotton, ...
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ArticleGerman optics industry calls for stripped-down free trade deal between U.K., EU
Spectaris, the German industry association for optics, photonics, analysis and medical technology based in Berlin, called for a “stripped-down” free trade agreement between the U.K. and the European Union to avoid the parties failing to strike a deal, which would lead to a so-called hard Brexit. “Better a stripped-down free ...
